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About the Author
Mitch (@mitchellharper) is the co-founder and CEO of BigCommerce. Way back in 2007 he built what eventually became BigCommerce as you know it. Today he runs the company alongside Eddie and along with our 100+ team members, is passionate about helping businesses succeed with e-commerce. Mitch spends time between our Sydney and Austin offices and is giving the keynote at TechConnect 2012 in Sydney on April 19th. |
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.
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