Washington State Destination Sales Tax API

[Agentcoop]

We'll also try to get a more plug and play version up as a contribution if possible and as time permits. Dept. of Revenue sent out a letter last week that scared some people .. so we're getting a lot of calls on this.

[KRW Knitwear]

We're working on this for a number of Zen Cart builds right now. We've done 2 Virtuemart & a CREloaded versions so far and have some Zen versions completed that are just not public yet.

You can see our methodology we're following for Washington State Destination Sales Tax here. If you can think of an easier way to get the zip + 4 from a user who doesn't know it ahead of time (like every customer in existence) we're all ears.

USPS wanted $3,000 for access to their real time API when we called ... so we went with Yahoo Maps to look-up the +4.

I guess merchants who got on a pilot program got a B & O tax credit towards their implementation of this if they were done prior to June 30th or so.

We'll post the Zen Examples as soon as they are up. The two we just completed have not launched their sites yet.. otherwise I'd show you how it looks.

Tom

TOM.. THANK YOU!

I have been going out of my mind with this.

What I can tell you is that I am forcing everyone to enter the zip + 4 in the cart. I have it set up that it needs to be there (By forcing the minimum digits to be 7) and So far.. it is working... at least for me.

[rory]

I would be very interested in this mod as well. thx....

[litepockets]

Did anybody find a mod to use this in ZC yet?

[litepockets]

Is this mod still under development? Any work being done on this?

[johnwasneverhere]

Hi Agentcoop... i'd be interested in what you developed for virtuemart... can you let me know what you can offer?

best,
John Christensen

[DrByte]

Hi Agentcoop... i'd be interested in what you developed for virtuemart... can you let me know what you can offer?

Um ... just a tiny clarification ... this site is about support for Zen Cart, not other shopping carts.

[johnwasneverhere]

i understand... i'm just desperate and have found more info here than on virtuemarts forum

[Agentcoop]

The logic-flow & business need is the same though... we got this down for Zen-Cart, Oscommerce & Virtuemart now... it's just not drop-in ready. The lowest price we're able to deploy is around $750 and it takes 2 days to get it set right. It's one thing to be able to charge the right rate and another to be able to later report on it to DOR's satisfaction.

If you could get WA State to actually commit and adhere to a single format for their data instead of changing it up quarter to quarter - you'd have businesses feeling less pain over this requirement.

The CSV started around 50k records and is over 112K different pieces of data for the zip +4 rates for Q1 09'.

Feel free to PM questions.. I'll check back more often.

Tom

[KRW Knitwear]

well.. I can tell this solution isnt going to be right for me. I cannot afford a module that will cost me $750 to delpoy.