Paypal and sales tax

[jnsgioia]

If a customer logs in with PayPal the sales tax is not applied. I think it is because Paypal is not returning the state, just the city and the zipcode.

[moy2010]

Set the state as a required field in your address settings. This way your customers will have to enter the state during the checkout to place a new order.

[jnsgioia]

The problem is not when the customer enters their address. It is when the customer uses login with PayPal and PayPal automatically passes the address to the cart. It is not passing the state information. With login with PayPal the customer does not have to enter their address. The login with Amazon works as it should so it is a problem with the PayPal module.

[moy2010]

Oh :S. Then disable the login with PayPal in the meantime. I've always hated the social login buttons in e-commerce :S.

[jnsgioia]

That I have done. It hasn't been much of an issue in the past as most of our sales are out of state (we only have to charge sales tax on sales where the customer is in Arizona), but we are running a special right now on a t-shirt for the eclipse which has been promoted by our local astronomy club and we are getting lots of local sales.

[jnsgioia]

Possibly, where would that conversion take place? Arizona has 524 zip codes, and larger states have many more. California for instance has 2,589.

[Traumflug]

Here's a database capable of doing this conversion: http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/

This page gives a strong hint the state is available via PayPal API: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/integration/direct/rest/state-codes/

[jnsgioia]

Thank you, it has.

[jnsgioia]

Done, sorry, I should have done it right away. Brain is on overdrive or something... :(

[alwayspaws]

@jnsgioia We here are all on overdrive. It's our state of being. :)

[vzex]

There is some sort of addictive code in TB that they haven't mentioned! They've got us hooked! No turning back now! :)

[jnsgioia]

:)

[alwayspaws]

@vzex said in Paypal and sales tax:

There is some sort of addictive code in TB that they haven't mentioned! They've got us hooked! No turning back now! :)

For sure, but it's a lovely "vice". :)