Imagine you sell electrical or electronic appliances in the European Union. Beyond the general tax applied to the sale price, some of those products are subject to an additional fixed-amount tax, designed to cover the cost of treating them as waste at the end of their useful life, as is the case with WEEE. If your store doesn’t account for this type of tax specifically, or calculates it as if it were just another percentage on top of the price, the order’s final amount won’t correctly reflect what should actually be charged.
A fixed tax, not a percentage
Magicfront AI lets you set fixed taxes on products, such as WEEE in the EU. Unlike a tax calculated as a percentage of the price, a fixed tax applies a set amount per unit of product, regardless of its sale price. Configuring this type of tax in the backoffice ensures it’s correctly added to the order’s final amount every time a product subject to it is sold.
Say your catalog includes electrical and electronic appliances
If your store sells this type of product within the European Union, it’s common for some of them to be subject to the WEEE regulation on waste electrical and electronic equipment, which includes a fixed-amount tax tied to their sale. Being able to set that fixed tax product by product, instead of having to manage it outside the system, allows every order to correctly reflect that cost from the moment of purchase.
Applicable to other fixed-amount taxes
While WEEE is the most common example within the European Union, the logic of a fixed tax per product applies to any other similar tax your business needs to manage: a set amount, tied to a specific product, added to the order regardless of its sale price.
Precision in the order’s final amount
When an order includes products subject to a fixed tax, the final amount must reflect exactly that additional amount, with no approximations. Configuring this type of tax directly on the product, from the backoffice, is what allows the calculation to be precise in every sale, without relying on manual adjustments after invoicing.
In summary
Setting fixed taxes on specific products, such as WEEE in the European Union, lets you correctly reflect in every order the tax costs associated with selling certain products, without having to manage them manually outside your store.