Your feedback needed: reworking tax zones for BigCommerce 6

Published on February 28th, 2010 by Mitchell Harper

Introduction

As we continue to add features in version 6 of our ecommerce software BigCommerce, we’re also reworking our tax system from the ground up to deal with more complex tax issues such as international, stacking, etc.

In this post I’d like to share our design mockups and ask for your feedback. We’ve decided to redesign tax settings in an almost identical way to shipping – in that there are now tax zones. Each zone has multiple tax rates and each product has a tax category which has tax rates applied to it.

We’ve played with various use cases for everything from simple local tax settings to complex international settings and each scenario was able to be implemented using our new tax zones system.

Please take a careful look at the mockups and if you see something we’ve missed please reply to this thread. Also if you have general suggestions or feedback we’d love to hear that too. Again, please reply to this thread.

Our Tax Zone Wireframes

Configuring general tax settings

Creating tax product classes

Creating a tax zone (step 1 of 2)

Creating a tax zone (step 2 of 2)

Creating a rate for a tax zone

Editing a tax zone

Listing all tax zones

Feedback? Suggestions? Please reply to this thread.