Tax system

fesh. provides a very flexible tax system, that allows collecting taxes based on the customer payment address, customer shipping address or the store's address and manage different tax rates for different types of products.

You can create different Geo zones with different tax rates. So let's start from creating Geo Zone:

1. Create Geo zones

  1. Go to System Localisation - Geo zones
  2. Push "pencil button" to edit  Geo zone or "+ button" in the top right corner to create new Geo zone

You can create multiple Geo zones and add multiple countries, full countries or several country regions. In this demo you can see Geo zone only for Michigan and Texas in USA:


Now we can create our tax rates for this Geo zones

2. Create tax rates

  1. Go to System Localisation - Taxes - Tax rates
  2. Push "pencil button" to edit  tax rate or "+ button" in the top right corner to create new rate

    Tax name - rate name
    Tax rate - rate value
    Tax type - percentage or fixed ammount
    Customer groups - you can create different taxes for different customer groups
    Geo Zone -  Select a Geo Zone that this tax rate will be applied to the regions and countries in this  Geo Zone


3. Create a tax class

Tax classes can store multiple tax rates into one category. The taxes can be customized to calculate the taxes based on the shipping address (customer) , payment address (customer) or the store's address. For example, you can create different tax classes for regular and digital products

  1. Go to System Localisation - Taxes - Tax classes
  2. Push "pencil button" to edit  tax rate or "+ button" in the top right corner to create new rate



Now, you can assign these tax claes to products.  The tax class must be added to each product individually in order to apply tax rates for purchase.


4. Add tax class to a product

  1. Go to Catalog Products
  2. Press "pencil button" to edit or  "+ buttonin top right corner to create a new product
  3.  Open Tax settings in Price block and select tax class you need for this product