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:

A separate help describes the flow of tax information through the system and how to install and configure the tax integration interface.

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: