Exempt Customers with a Tax ID

Overview

You can let qualifying customers (often businesses with a tax ID) check out without a given tax. When a customer checks out with a non-empty tax ID, Foxy removes the taxes that have this option enabled.

Enable the exemption per tax

1. 1

   Go to the Foxy admin.

2. 2

   Go to Settings > Taxes and open a tax.

3. 3

   Turn on Exempt all customers with Tax ID.

4. 4

   Repeat for each tax that should offer the exemption.

Add the tax ID field to checkout

Go to Settings > Checkout. In the checkout fields, set Tax ID to Optional or Required (it is Hidden by default). Each field uses a Hidden, Optional, or Required dropdown.

Prepopulate the tax ID

Because the tax ID can belong to the billing or shipping address, there are two fields: shipping_tax_id and billing_tax_id. You can prepopulate them by calling the cart with the values. To run this on your own page, wrap it so it executes after Foxy initializes:

const FC = FC || {};
const existingOnLoad = (typeof FC.onLoad == 'function') ? FC.onLoad : function () {};
FC.onLoad = function () {
  existingOnLoad();
  FC.client.on('ready.done', function () {
    const customerTaxId = 'CUSTOMER_TAX_ID';
    FC.client.request(
      'https://' + FC.settings.storedomain +
      '/cart?shipping_tax_id=' + customerTaxId +
      '&billing_tax_id=' + customerTaxId
    );
  });
};

Notes

• You can also set the value through the API. Even if the field is hidden on checkout, a customer with a tax ID is treated as exempt, so you could keep it hidden and apply approved tax IDs yourself after your own validation.

• Foxy does not validate the tax ID number.