Regional Tax using PayPal Payments Pro

[vshahoian]

Hello, I have the payment bundle and want to use the paypal pro setting, however, I don’t know how to calculate tax based on region. Is this a possibility? For example, buyers in california need to be taxed but out of state buyers shouldn’t be taxed.

[admin]

Do you only need to tax customers from “california” and the rest won’t get charged tax?

[vshahoian]

Yes, only people that purchase a product that live in california need to be taxed.

[admin]

Lets try this (it should achieve what you are after).

You can use the following option to charge tax only when your customer tells the cart that he/she is from a selected area (for example: California).

1. Open the “eStore_advanced_configs.php” file find the following line of code:

define('WP_ESTORE_APPLY_TAX_FOR_CERTAIN_AREA', '0');

2. Once you find it change it to something like the following:

define('WP_ESTORE_APPLY_TAX_FOR_CERTAIN_AREA', 'California residents check here');

Save and update this file.

3. Specify the tax rate in the “Calculate Tax” field of eStore’s settings menu. Keep the “Enable tax calculation” checkbox unchecked so it doesn’t apply tax automatically.

Now, there will be a checkbox in the shopping cart with the “text” you specified in step 2 of the above modification. When a customer checks that checkbox it will apply the sales tax rate (specified in step 3) to the shopping cart.

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