Tax not applying to Local Pick Up shipping option

  • Resolved Cindy from Local Bag

    (@cindy-from-local-bag)


    8 years, 3 months ago

    Apologies if you have seen this in the Braintree plugin forum — I accidentally posted it there. //

    Hi, I am new to WooCommerce and am setting up a shop on my WordPress site (localbag.net). Things are going well but I cannot figure out what I’m doing wrong for my tax settings and the Local Pick Up shipping option.

    For example if I do a mock purchase and ask for flat rate shipping, it adds the correct amount of tax for the item at checkout. If instead I request a Local Pick Up it does not add any tax (which it should).

    I know that the default tax rate for Local Pick Up is the tax rate of the shop’s base location, in my case, California. I do not have only one single California rate in my tax rates because there are a lot of different rates in California cities — I have all zip codes and their different rates. If I add a blanket CA rate (7.5%) it will conflict with all other cities’ tax rates at checkout right (regardless of shipping method)?

    Is there a way to point Local Pick Up to my city’s tax rate (which is higher than the standard state tax rate)?

    Many thanks for any ideas or suggestions, Cindy
    localbag.net

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/woocommerce

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  • Caleb Burks

    (@icaleb)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Here ya go: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/local-pickup/#section-4

    You can place this code in your child theme’s functions.php file, or using a code snippets plugin like mentioned here: https://www.skyverge.com/blog/add-custom-code-to-wordpress/

    Thread Starter Cindy from Local Bag

    (@cindy-from-local-bag)

    Caleb you are a LIFESAVER! Thank you so much – works perfectly!!!

    Exactly what I needed too! Thanks for asking the question Cindy and thanks for answering it Caleb.

    I was looking for a solution to this, too. I appreciate the code fix to the functions.php file, but I know this file will get overwritten if I update WooCommerce, so I try not to customize this file too much (it’s always wise to note what changes you make so you can add them back after updates).

    To circumvent this, I chose Flat Rate as a shipping method (I suppose you could choose Free Shipping, too, but Flat Rate gives you the option to charge a fee if you want), set all costs to 0.00, and retitled it “Local Pickup”. I placed a test order just to be sure everything went smoothly. My solution works and my functions.php remains intact.

    That said, if someone from the WooCommerce team thinks this isn’t a wise solution, I’d be curious as to why.

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