Imagine your company operates from several sites and sells to customers whose shipping address doesn’t always match their billing address. The same order can have different tax implications depending on whether the tax is calculated based on where the goods are delivered or where the billing is domiciled. Applying a single tax criterion to every order, without accounting for these differences, can result in invoices that don’t correctly reflect the actual tax obligation of each transaction.
Taxes calculated using the right criteria
Magicfront AI lets you configure and apply taxes based on the shipping or billing address, from any of your sites. This means you don’t have to pick a single generic tax criterion for the whole store: you can define how the tax is calculated depending on which of the two addresses — shipping or billing — is relevant in each case, while also taking into account that your company may operate from different sites.
Say you manage orders from more than one site
When a company has several sites, each order may depend on different tax rules depending on which site manages it, and on which shipping or billing address is associated with the customer. Configuring this logic from the backoffice lets each order be calculated with the correct tax criteria automatically, without anyone on the team having to manually review each case to decide which tax applies.
Reduces the risk of tax errors
Miscalculating an order’s tax isn’t just a numbers problem: it can lead to incorrect invoices and discrepancies that then have to be corrected manually, with the time cost and reputational risk that involves. Automating the calculation criteria based on shipping or billing address significantly reduces that risk, because the rule is applied consistently to every order, without depending on someone remembering and applying it correctly each time.
Flexibility for complex operations
Every business has a different structure: some always sell from a single site, others manage several sites with different tax criteria between them. Being able to apply tax based on shipping or billing address, and to do so from any of your sites, gives your operation the flexibility it needs to handle that complexity without managing it manually order by order.
In summary
Configuring tax application based on shipping or billing address, and doing so from any of your sites, lets you correctly calculate the tax obligation of each order automatically, reducing the risk of errors and saving the time it would take to review each case manually.