Tax table not saving

Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out and sorry to hear of the troubles.

When you were testing with plugins deactivated, did you also test by switching to a default theme, like Storefront? If not, can you try that as well to rule out any theme conflicts?

When attempting to save the tax rate, did you spot any errors in the dev console? Also, what’s the WP Memory Limit set to?

I switched to the Twenty Twenty theme and boosted the memory limit to 256 and my tax table still won’t save.

Something I didn’t mention above is that this website is being developed on a staging server. There is an SSL certificate in place.

I did download, install and activate the Storefront theme. The tax table still won’t save.

Here is my system status if it helps:

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Howdy,

Thanks for your reply.

I see that there were some plugins still installed on the System Status Report you sent over, so I just wanted to confirm that those were only reactivated after your conflict testing was completed?

Also, are you seeing any errors in the dev console when attempting to save the tax row? If so, could you post a screenshot of that error? You can use https://snipboard.io/ to send screenshots here. You’ll just drag and drop the image into the window, and it will generate a URL to paste here.

Last, sometimes firewalls or security settings can cause data not to save like this. Would you be able to check in with your web host to see if there’s anything installed that could be blocking this request?

Thanks and looking forward to your reply.

Hello laceyrod, yes, I had reactivated the plugins after attempting to save the tax table with all plugins deactivated and having switched to the twenty twenty theme.

There wasn’t much to be found in my console and it didn’t change when I tried again to save the tax table:

I will check with my host regarding any security settings or firewalls they may have in place that could interfere with with saving the tax table.

Hi @figure2. Did you manage to resolve this issue or is it still a problem? Did it persist after updating to the latest version of WooCommerce?

The problem is not resolved, even after the update and my web host (Siteground) tells me that there is nothing on their hosting platform that would interfere with creating tax tables.

I suspect that the tables may be being created, but something is preventing them from displaying on the tax table settings page.

I am also having this issue. When I try to manually insert a row on the standard tax rates, it doesn’t save. The tables are in the database (viewing with PHPmyadmin) but no data is being written there. I created a clean install of wordpress on my server with the storefront theme and a clean install of woocommerce. No other plugins installed except for what comes with the default wp 5.5.1 installation (downloaded fresh). PHP max input vars are 2080, memory limit is 500M, max input time is 120, max execution time is 180. SoapClient is not installed, but woo says that is only required for certain gateway plugins, I plan on getting that installed later.

Here is a screen shot of the chrome console with LogXMLHttpRequests on:

https://snipboard.io/jWiLl7.jpg

rekrapt, this problem is bigger than the Woocommerce mods realize (or will admit to). If you do a simple google search:

From earlier this year: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/creating-tax-rates-tables-in-woo-commerce-not-working

From 2019: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/tax-table-not-showing-up

From 2018: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/standard-tax-rates-changes-not-saving

Including you and myself, this makes 5 people having this issue. At least 5 people I know about. I suspect there are more.

I sincerely hope Woocommerce will find a solution.

Well, figure2, that’s discouraging. Thanks for those links. Funny that this is happening with a clean WP installation and nothing but the WooCommerce plugin. That pretty much rules out the notion that some other plugin is causing this problem. And, I can’t imagine what a theme would have to do with saving tax tables in the back-end. Just doesn’t make any sense to me.

Hi @rekrapt and @figure2. It definitely sounds like something is interfering with either the tables being created or with your store pulling data from the tables. I recommend you reinstall WooCommerce by FTP. Deactivate WooCommerce temporarily. Then you can download the zip file, unzip it and then overwrite the existing files on your server by FTP. Then activate WooCommerce and go to WooCommerce > Status > Tools to verify the database.

I recommend that you try this on a staging site first to see if it helps. Please let me know how it goes.

Hi @rekrapt and @figure2. We haven’t heard from you in a while so I’m going to go ahead and mark this thread as resolved. If you still need help with this issue or have any other questions about the WooCommerce plugin, please start a new thread.

I was busy with a few other projects. I followed the steps you suggested and the problem persists. The tax table disappeared as soon as I saved.

Hi all,

Any News on this situation ? thanks for sharing any solution, Maybe i can work directly on the database ? which name is the specific table for taxe rate ? maybe i could put my rate there directly ?

Thanks