# 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 to the `/api/external_tax_calculators` endpoint.

## Fields

| 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**             | `string`  | Time at which the resource was created.                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| attributes.**updated\_at**             | `string`  | 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.**circuit\_state**          | `string`  | The circuit breaker state, by default it is 'closed'. It can become 'open' once the number of consecutive failures overlaps the specified threshold, in such case no further calls to the failing callback are made.                            |
| attributes.**circuit\_failure\_count** | `integer` | The number of consecutive failures recorded by the circuit breaker associated to this resource, will be reset on first successful call to callback.                                                                                             |
| attributes.**\_reset\_circuit**        | `boolean` | Send this attribute if you want to reset the circuit breaker associated to this resource to 'closed' state and zero failures count. Cannot be passed by sales channels.                                                                         |
| attributes.**shared\_secret**          | `string`  | The shared secret used to sign the external request payload.                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| attributes.**external\_includes**      | `array`   | List of related resources that will be included in the request to the external callback. Please do consult the documentation to check on which resource the includes are related (i.e. the order) and the defaults in case no list is provided. |
| attributes.**tax\_calculator\_url**    | `string`  | The URL to the service that will compute the taxes.                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| relationships.**markets**              | `array`   | The associated markets.                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| relationships.**attachments**          | `array`   | The associated attachments.                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| relationships.**events**               | `array`   | The associated events.                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| relationships.**event\_stores**        | `array`   | The associated event stores.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| meta.**mode**                          | `string`  | The resource environment (can be one of `test` or `live`)                                                                                                                                                                                       |


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