Create an external tax calculator to delegate tax calculation logic to the specified external service. Use the order payload to compute your own logic and return the tax rate to be applied to the order.
The external tax calculator object
An external tax calculator object is returned as part of the response body of each successful list, retrieve, create or update API call.
Field
Type
Description
type
string
external_tax_calculators
id
string
The external tax calculator unique identifier
links.self
string
The external tax calculator endpoint URL
attributes.name
string
The tax calculator's internal name.
attributes.created_at
datetime
Time at which the resource was created.
attributes.updated_at
datetime
Time at which the resource was last updated.
attributes.reference
string
A string that you can use to add any external identifier to the resource. This can be useful for integrating the resource to an external system, like an ERP, a marketing tool, a CRM, or whatever.
attributes.reference_origin
string
Any identifier of the third party system that defines the reference code
attributes.metadata
object
Set of key-value pairs that you can attach to the resource. This can be useful for storing additional information about the resource in a structured format.
attributes.tax_calculator_url
string
The URL to the service that will compute the taxes.
relationships.tax_categories
array
The associated tax categories.
relationships.markets
array
The associated markets.
relationships.attachments
array
The associated attachments.
meta.mode
string
The resource environment (can be one of test or live)