From the course: BigCommerce Essential Training
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Add tax rates
- [Instructor] Big Commerce has a pretty good interface for taxes. Under store setup you can look on tax to get started. The easiest option is to have Avalara, which is a company that specializes in taxes, calculate our taxes for us. They're a well known company, and if you want to automate your taxes, they are one of the best out there. Avalara doesn't have clear pricing, but its likely going to cost you a few hundred dollars a year. With a minimum of $50 per year. For brand-new merchants this might seem like a lot, but it removes so much uncertainty from your business. If you have the money it can be incredibly helpful to pay for a service like this and not have to worry about it. If you want to use Avalara, you can configure it here. I'll show you how to manually configure tax rates. Let's click edit and then we can start scrolling down. There's a few basic options. What do we want to call it? Let's call it tax. In the US we tend to use exclusive pricing, meaning if an item on the…
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