### Summary

This guide covers the essential prerequisite steps for ensuring accurate sales tax calculations on your invoices. Properly setting up customer addresses, your shipping origin, and tax settings on the invoice is crucial for the integration to work correctly.

### When to Use This

Follow this guide before you calculate sales tax on any invoice. It is especially important when creating an invoice for a new customer or if you suspect your tax calculations are not working as expected.

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### Key Points

#### 1. Verify Customer and Company Addresses

For the system to calculate sales tax accurately, it needs a valid origin and destination address. Before calculating tax, always check the following:

* **Customer 'Ship To' Address**: Ensure the customer's profile contains a complete and valid shipping address. This is the primary address used to determine the tax jurisdiction.
* **Your 'Ship From' Address**: Your company's shipping origin address must also be complete and correct on the invoice.

#### 2. Enable Invoice Fields (If Needed)

If you need to apply a discount that should be factored into the tax calculation, you may need to enable the discount field.

* Click **Manage** to open the side panel.
* Under **More options**, toggle the **Discount** switch on.
* This will add a discount field to the invoice, where you can enter a percentage or a flat amount.

#### 3. Select the Correct Tax Rate Setting

To prevent your accounting software from applying its own tax calculation on top of the integration's calculation, you must select the correct tax rate.

* Locate the **Select tax rate** dropdown at the bottom of the invoice.
* Choose the **TaxCloud (0%)** option. This acts as a placeholder and signals the system to use the live, calculated rate from the integration tool instead of a default rate.

### Common Questions (FAQs)

* **What if my customer doesn't have a shipping address?** A shipping address is required for accurate tax calculation. If an order is not being shipped, the customer's primary business address should be used as the 'Ship To' address.
* **Can I apply a discount after tax is calculated?** It is best practice to apply the discount before calculating tax. If you add or change a discount after the fact, you must save the invoice and then recalculate the tax to ensure the final amount is correct.




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