Tax integration

Integrating WebSphere Commerce with a third-party tax calculation system is a key step in building and maintaining a highly secure e-commerce site with a world-wide tax calculation process. This help describes:

For an example of a third-party tax application, refer to Taxware.

The tax integration interface

The tax integration interface retrieves tax-related information from the WebSphere Commerce database, information such as the customer's company ID, state and zip code, ship to and ship from location, billing address, and if relevant, country-related data. The interface performs these functions:

The tax integration feature

The tax integration feature is a set of classes used to communicate tax-related data between the tax integration interface and another tax application. The tax integration feature does the following:

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