How can I pass tax information on a subscription to Authorize.net ARB?

[jeckton]

I want to add a service charge on top of a base subscription price for my products. What I did was put that % in the tax field in settings and change the label from “tax” to “service charge”. This works just fine if I use your shopping cart for a single purchase (ie. not a subscription). How can I make this work for subscriptions? I am using subscription billing through authorize.net ARB (with the payment gateway bundle). The order form does not contain a tax field, and the price that gets sent to the ARB api is only the base price with the tax. Any suggestions?

[wpCommerce]

Hi, usually payment gateways don’t allow any tax with subscription. Authorize.net ARB doesn’t have any specific option for it either. But you can do the following tweak to achieve something similar:

1. Specify a price in the “recurring price” field which also includes the service charge. For example: if the base price for the subscription is $5.00 and the service charge is $2.00 you can specify $7.00 in the price field.

2. Edit the eStore product name to “Base Product name (service charge included)”. That way when a user subscribes for that product they will be able to see that you are charging the full price.

[jeckton]

ok, not exactly ideal but I can do it this way. I was hoping there was a way we could pass the full total that we would normally see in the shopping cart over to the subscription service.

[wpCommerce]

Hi, subscription item doesn’t actually go to the shopping cart. So there won’t be any cart subtotal, tax or shipping.

Once a user clicks on the button it directly takes them to the “collect details” page where they can fill in their personal information. A summary of the subscription (name, terms, price) is also shown on the “collect details” page, which is the only way for the users to know how much they are actually paying for the subscription.

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