TaxCloud Addon

[swguy]

Thanks. This file was apparently improperly merged. Wait for a new PR to be submitted.

[gwynwyffar]

It also appears that the admin/includes/functions/general.php file from TaxCloud is missing a lot of the zen_record_admin_activity statements that were added for PCI Compliance in 1.5.4. If someone just overwrites the file with the TaxCloud one they will be removing that.

[swguy]

Like I said, it was a bad merge. It will be fixed ASAP.

[swguy]

A PR has been submitted to the TaxCloud team.

[swguy]

The TaxCloud guys have merged my PR.

[SPembleton]

Automated Compliance - I just spoke to TaxCloud. They are pushing turning on Automated Compliance. If you turn on automated compliance, they will calculate and add to your invoices sales tax from 24 states, even if you only have a nexus in 1 state! The alternative is to turn off Automated compliance. With AC off, they will only calculate sales tax from states where you have a nexus, but then they will charge you $10/mo. Personally, I am a small enough business that neither option can work for me. If I cannot find an practical way to collect sales tax, I may go out of business.

[travbacon]

Automated Compliance - I just spoke to TaxCloud. They are pushing turning on Automated Compliance. If you turn on automated compliance, they will calculate and add to your invoices sales tax from 24 states, even if you only have a nexus in 1 state! The alternative is to turn off Automated compliance. With AC off, they will only calculate sales tax from states where you have a nexus, but then they will charge you $10/mo. Personally, I am a small enough business that neither option can work for me. If I cannot find an practical way to collect sales tax, I may go out of business.

I hate seeing posts like this. If you cannot afford $10 a month then you should not be in business period and you should go out of business.

[swguy]

I hate seeing posts like this. If you cannot afford $10 a month then you should not be in business period and you should go out of business.

It sounds harsh, but it's true. You're wasting your time, and likely short-changing your family. If you're that broke, get a second job - at minimum wage if necessary - and spend the rest of your time building marketable skills so you can make more money working for someone else. Running your own business is expensive and difficult, and if you're that cost-sensitive you have no hope.

[Taxcloud]

Don't understand the hardship that neither option can work. If cost is an issue, just turn on Automated Compliance and use TaxCloud for free - and TaxCloud handles all compliance tasks (for the 24 states).

[numinix]

Hello Melanie,

We have had merchants report that COWA does not work with TaxCloud since it replaces some of the checkout code that TaxCloud relies on.

Currently in your cart it isn't making the call to compute the taxes, but it is making the call to commit the order. This is why you are getting the error message you are seeing.

It may be possible to get the two modules working together but it will take some coding changes. I can try to see if there is a simple fix for this. I will give it a try and let you know.

This is incorrect. FEC/FEAC/OPRC are all compatible with TaxCloud. The issue is the core edits that tax cloud makes to the order.php class file contain a condition which checks the page and only lists default Zen Cart pages. Pages like FILENAME_CHECKOUT, FILENAME_QUICK_CHECKOUT, and FILENAME_ONE_PAGE_CHECKOUT would all need to be added as well. A version with bug fixes was forked by Numinix and can be found here: https://github.com/numinix/TaxCloud (note: TaxCloud released a new version after our fork but doesn't look like they've implemented all/any of our fixes so you may need to merge the two versions).