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I was going through the file system and found: "/admin/Taxes/Providers/CCH/enroll.aspx". Does this mean you plan on providing sales tax integration w/CCH and Cybersource? That would be fantastic. We are looking at having to upload 2200+ zip codes for New York state each month -- and it still won't be accurate enough for our reporting... If you aren't planning on offering automatic integration, can you tell me if there is a way I can set it up with one of these providers ourselves if we work with a programmer? Thanks.

Hello Will,

Yes it will be available. It's not terribly popular so we removed it as a 'requirement' to release 7.0. It's a drop in dll and will be easy enough to add. ETA Unknown.

Thanks. I realize not everybody has to deal with the New York State tax abyss, but that integration would be huge.

I was meeting with our bookkeeper this morning. We have to update over 2200 different sales tax/zip codes combinations each month.

We've got the codes in excel format right now. Looks like the most promising method will be to upload them as xml with the data tool.

How difficult is it to convert excel to the proper XML for AC7? Do you know if this is possible in excel, should we look for a programmer?

Thanks.

Hello Will,

It would be quicker and easier to write the integration yourself. It wasn't difficult and it's well documented.

Hi Mike,
Would this integration require buying the source code?

I'm a UI guy -- not an experienced ASP.net programmer. Are you saying it's so easy I could do it?

If we do need a programmer, can you (or anyone else out there) recommend a contractor?

Thanks.

Will wrote:I was going through the file system and found: "/admin/Taxes/Providers/CCH/enroll.aspx".

The integration for CCH was functional at one point in AC7. When we made an architecture change to the core, the CCH code was not updated and so it will not work as is. Cybersource was never implemented in AC7. Both were tabled because demand in AC55 was so low - I think I could count on my fingers the number of merchants who used these in production.

Regarding the tax code update - it would be a very simple programming task to create a custom ASP script. This script would read the Excel data and update the tax codes. It would not require source code.

Excel contains a way to map and save your data to XML. I am not sure whether that could be used in conjunction with the client tool - I still need to get up to speed on the status of that utility.

I'm surprised not many people wanted this integration. Anybody selling within NY and CA would almost have to have this. Go figure.

We're going to buy time with an interim solution right now -- charging a single median sales tax rate and then figuring out the reporting outside of AC7. That's only going to be viable for a couple months, though.

Do you plan on offering the integration? If yes, do you have a timeframe?

Thanks.

As far as I'm aware, we do plan on completing those tax provider integrations. I cannot give you a timeframe today. Perhaps I can be more specific at the end of the week.

We can live with our interim solution for a couple months. If it's going to be longer, we'll probably need to hire a programmer to write the ASP.net script to pull in the excel doc or see if we can use excel to massage the data into XML for uploading through your data tool.

Thanks.

Hi:

We also need to integrate with a Tax API. We are using Avatax from Avalara. So I am raising my hand as a developer who needs source to work from for this too.

Thanks!
-Rob.

We're to the point with sales tax that we want to try and integrate with a Tax Provider.

From what I understand, we would need source code to do this, correct? If so, is it available yet?

Thanks.

No it doesn't require source code. AFAIK, the Avalara integration was completed already.

What it requires is that you construct a class that implements our tax provider interface. I will see whether I can get a sample thrown together today.

We are going to release our source code to the community for what we've done to integrate with Avalara. Is there a contributions repository or should we just host and post a link?

Logan and jrobgood -- that would be fantastic if you could post your solutions.

jrobgood -- which Avalara service(s) are you using?

Sorry for all the posts -- I keep thinking of questions...

Logan, when you say "implements our tax provider interface" does that mean we can integrate with any tax provider or just Avalara?

Will wrote:Logan, when you say "implements our tax provider interface" does that mean we can integrate with any tax provider or just Avalara?

I can't say "any" for certain... How about, yes you should be able to integrate almost any provider.

Basically what happens is you create a .NET assembly that implements our ITaxProvider interface. It has methods like Calculate, Commit, and Cancel. If you add a tax provider to your store, our code knows to call the methods defined by our interface when it is needed.

So it's not just Avalara. We use the same framework to integrate CyberSource and CertiTAX. (However those integrations will not be published until our 7.1 release as we need more time to properly test them.)

However those integrations will not be published until our 7.1 release as we need more time to properly test them.)

Does this mean if we need it before you release 7.1 we can have a programmer write and implement the .NET assembly without needing the source code?

Just want to make sure I understand the situation properly before I talk to people.

Thanks.

I think you would find this thread of interest:

viewtopic.php?t=5935&highlight=avalara

Source code was not required to complete this integration.

Super. Thanks!

Will wrote:jrobgood -- which Avalara service(s) are you using?

We are using the AvaTax and their reporting and filing solution.

Logan Rhodehamel wrote:I think you would find this thread of interest:

viewtopic.php?t=5935&highlight=avalara

Source code was not required to complete this integration.

FYI I have posted our Avalara provider integration to the thread Logan quoted above. Good luck!