by RetailEdge Moderator » Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:29 pm
When you check "Ship this Sale" in RetailEdge, RetailEdge will apply the Sales Tax Jurisdiction for the customer (edited on the Misc tab of the Customer Editor). If there is no customer associated with the sale then RetailEdge has no jurisdiction to apply the sale to and will remove tax from the sale.
There are States that will have different in-state sales tax rates. For instance, Vermont has municipalities that have a local option tax. So if I ship from Rutland Vermont to Manchester Vermont, I have to apply a 1% local option tax. If I am shipping to Mendon, I would not have to. So in this case you would setup two jurisdictions rates, State at 6% and Manchester Local Option at 1%. The customer would have both associated with them. But the Sales Screen would only have the State. So under normal circumstances, RetailEdge would just charge 6%. But if you associated the customer with the sale and checked Ship This Sale, you would have 7% applied.