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  • #73052
    Tommy Tompkins
    Participant

    Hi All,

    I’m still evaluating WC Vendors to see if it’s right for my business and I’m curious if it’s possible to calculate sales tax based on the vendor’s shop location instead of the administrator’s location? Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I was assuming that a very basic feature of all marketplace solutions would be to have the ability for vendor’s to create their own tax rules. But from other threads I’ve read on this forum, it appears that this doesn’t exist?

    Not knowing which states all of my vendors will be in, let’s say that I download and upload all of the US tax rates in a CSV file and assign it to the standard tax class. Let’s also assume that I calculate tax based off of the customer’s shipping address. If a customer is ordering from a vendor’s shop where the shop is located in MN but the customer lives in Iowa, the customer should not be charged sales tax since they’re out of state. But it appears that in this scenario, the customer will still be charged Iowa sales tax since there are tax tables uploaded for Iowa based vendors. Is this true?

    If this is true, aren’t there some very large legal and financial implications here that put all WC Vendors users at risk? I’m just trying to wrap my head around if it’s even possible to make WC Vendors tax compliant. If not, are there any work arounds?

    Thank you for your time,

    Tommy

    #73072
    Malavika Gupta
    Participant

    Hi Tommy,

    I had exactly the same concerns but there is no tax setting which Vendor can do and choose the state he wants to apply the tax on based on his own location. Tax settings are done by Admin which creates the problem you have reported above.

    May be Anna can highlight more.

    Thanks

    #73183
    Anna
    Member

    Hello,
    Within WC Vendors, we only use the tax handling built into WooCommerce- which will only set taxes based upon the location of the main site/admin settings.
    It is essentially up to the vendors to report and pay appropriate taxes separately at this time.
    We do hope to be able to provide a different solution in the future after some changes are made to the core files in WC Vendors and commission handling so that we can add more options to the plugin.

    #73209
    Tommy Tompkins
    Participant

    Hello,

    Thanks for the response. That’s a real bummer. After researching WC Vendors, YITH Multi Vendor, Dokan, and WC Marketplace, it appears that all Woocommerce based multi-vendor marketplace solutions have this exact same fundamental flaw. It seems like such a basic requirement that I’m very surprised that any of these options can be considered valid solutions here in the United States. If the tax configuration options that are available at the Woocommerce settings level were duplicated and able to be made available at the vendor level, this wouldn’t be an issue. I can only assume that Woocommerce wasn’t designed or intended to be used in a multi-vendor environment since all of the above plugins weren’t able to piece together a solution for what I would consider a basic requirement for all US based e-commerce applications.

    Man…this is a real bummer. I had my heart set on using a Woocommerce based solution and now I’m not sure what to do. If you guys ever find a good solution for this, I’d appreciate it if you could update this thread so I can be notified.

    Thank you,

    Tommy

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