I’m working on my first Webflow ecommerce site for a client. I have experience using Foxy as the ecommerce platform, but this is my first time trying to do it all in Webflow. So far, the process has gone wonderfully. I haven’t had to write any weird Javascript like I would in my Webflow/Foxy projects to make things work properly.
I do have one weird issue though that I’m not sure can be fixed. At checkout, the sales tax is being broken down into three line items: State Taxes, County Taxes and Special District Taxes (see screenshot below). I understand that this is how sales tax is actually calculated, but it’s unusual to see it broken down like this and I worry it may confuse users—deterring them from making a purchase.
Is there anything I can do about this? Ideally, I would still have TaxJar’s automatic tax calculation but there would just be one line item of Sales Tax.
I recently experienced the same thing. I’d love for it to just bundle all of the taxes into 1 line litem called “Taxes” because seeing that specific breakdown is quite jarring for my client and their customers since we’re not used to seeing it like that.
I guess the workaround would to be include taxes in all of your items when you post them, but it’s not ideal.
Hi @kvdkn, Currently, it is not possible to edit the tax line items. In order to ensure taxes are displayed correctly to users, we use the default tax names like:
State Taxes
County Taxes
City taxes
Special District Taxes
GST
PST
QST
Country Taxes
This information is pulled in from our automatic tax calculation service, Taxjar.
Editing the text for these tax line items could be an awesome feature to have in Webflow, and it’s definitely something you could add your voice and votes too in our Wishlist.
The ability to add manual tax rules is tentatively on the roadmap for the first half of 2020. This will allow you to have more control over how taxes are displayed if you don’t want auto-tax enabled.
Any updates or workaround on how to manually set the tax rate? I live in Sweden where the normal tax rate is 25% for goods. But I realized that Webflow “automatically” calculates the taxes to 20% witch means that I have to pay the 5% of my own pocket.
I’m seriously thinking of going to Shopify as they are cheaper and easier to use.
Any suggestions of a workaround?
Also, we are in the second half of 2021 already, any news Webflow?
There is a really simple solution around this but it is taking away the good work done by ‘Taxjar’. This will not work for state taxes
When setting up taxes > select the country, if it’s the US, CA, EUR, or AUS you can turn the auto tax calculations off. For all other countries it is already a manual process.
Then goto the shipping methods and create per country its individual method with an add up percentage of taxes to the shipping cost if any and call it shipping and taxes. So that is 1 way to have all neatly under one item.
But I think its good to show the break down in taxes personally particular for states
Is there an update on this? I’ve tested a bunch of cities and zip codes and, ironically, Im only seeing the breakdown beyond sales tax in on city, Austin Texas, which is where our business is located.
