Checkout API does not show taxes in reports

Questions
1

I’m using the checkout API (using the node SDK) to create payment for my customers and the flow if working perfectly, but when I check the dashboard of my sandbox client, I do not see any taxes in the reports? I am sending the tax details and the total amounts are corect… Is it because I am using order taxes instead of line taxes?

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I am sending the taxes in my order though:

[
  {
    name: 'inclusive tax',
    type: 'INCLUSIVE',
    scope: 'ORDER',
    appliedMoney: {amount: 1092, currency: 'CAD'}
  }
]

According to the documentation this should be enough, but I do not see them in the reports, nor any place else. Can someone elaborate?

2

Hi :wave:, I took a look at the checkout requests that you are making and the items in the orders are adhoc items which won’t automatically have an inclusive tax. If you use the catalog_object_id for the item variation in the order then the taxes will be applied. :slightly_smiling_face:

3

Hi Bryan, thanks for the quick response.
Does this mean that I need to map my product lines to actual products created in Square? Or do I just need to add some minimal extra data to the request I am making now?
As my lines currently can be a combination of products into a single line, It’s currently hard to have a detailed mapping to existing products.

4

You can still do adhoc items and taxes. For example if you create a checkout with the following it will have the taxes reported in the Dashboard like what you are looking for. :slightly_smiling_face:

{
    "idempotency_key": "cc0f63e2-d6ed-4ae3-8740-03539489ab53",
    "order": {
      "idempotency_key": "4e996fb0-248b-4a21-8258-8880d960ff57",
      "order": {
        "location_id": "LOCATION_ID",
        "line_items": [
          {
            "quantity": "1",
            "name": "item_1",
            "base_price_money": {
              "amount": 100,
              "currency": "USD"
            }
          }
        ],
        "taxes": [
          {
            "name": "city",
            "percentage": "10",
            "scope": "ORDER",
            "type": "INCLUSIVE"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
5

Ok, so I need to work with a percentage, rather than an amount and it will work? I will try it out.