TaxJar is a sales tax platform that calculates rates in real time and helps businesses report and file sales tax. The WC Vendors Tax add-on connects TaxJar to your WC Vendors marketplace, so your customers pay the right sales tax at checkout, even when one order contains products from several vendors.
You choose the Seller of record. Set it to Marketplace and tax is calculated from your store address using your own TaxJar account. Set it to Vendor and the cart is split by vendor, so each vendor’s products are taxed from their own store address. Vendors can connect their own TaxJar account by adding their TaxJar API token under Tax Settings in their dashboard. Vendors who don’t connect an account use yours.
Key features for your marketplace
- Real-time rates at checkout: TaxJar calculates tax on products, and on shipping when shipping is included, on the classic cart and checkout pages.
- Vendor API tokens: when vendors are the seller of record, they can add and verify their own TaxJar API token from their dashboard.
- Nexus addresses: list every business location, such as stores and warehouses. You do this when the marketplace is the seller of record; vendors do it when they are.
- Product tax categories: vendors pick a TaxJar Product Tax category for each product, so items like clothing or food are taxed at the right rate.
- Order and refund uploads: send paid orders and refunds to TaxJar for reporting and filing. You turn on Upload orders for the marketplace, or each vendor turns on Upload order for their own sales.
- Per-product control: exclude individual products from automatic tax calculations.
- Sandbox mode: test the connection with TaxJar’s sandbox before going live.
You need the WC Vendors Tax add-on and WC Vendors Pro, plus a TaxJar account with a SmartCalcs API token. Prices must be entered exclusive of tax, and the integration works with the classic WooCommerce cart and checkout, not the block-based checkout.
