Integrations
Sales tax calculated automatically.
Buy Social uses Stripe Tax to calculate the right sales tax rate on every order, in every state, at checkout. No spreadsheets, no tax tables, no manual updates when rates change.
Sales tax is complicated. Now it's not your problem.
Sales tax is one of the most frustrating parts of running an online store. Every state has its own rates. Counties and cities layer additional rates on top. Some products are taxable. Some aren't. Regulations change without warning, and figuring out where you have nexus, meaning where you're legally required to collect tax, is a full-time job on its own.
Live sellers face a specific version of this problem. You ship to buyers in dozens of states. The moment your sales volume crosses economic nexus thresholds in a state, you owe tax there. Tracking that manually is unrealistic when you're running three shows a week.
Stripe Tax handles the calculation side. It knows the current tax rate for the buyer's shipping address, applies it at checkout, and collects the right amount. The collected tax is tracked separately in your Stripe dashboard so you can see exactly what's owed to each state when it's time to file.
You still need to file and remit your returns, or use a service like TaxJar or Avalara for that step. But the hardest part, figuring out what to charge and actually collecting it, is handled for you on every single order.
How Stripe Tax works for you
Automatic rate calculation
Stripe Tax looks up the exact tax rate for each buyer's shipping address at checkout. State, county, and city rates are all factored in.
Nexus monitoring
Stripe tracks your sales volume across states and flags when you approach economic nexus thresholds. You find out before you're non-compliant.
Multi-state compliance
Sell to buyers in all 50 states without managing a single tax table. Rates update automatically when states change their rules.
Tax-inclusive or tax-exclusive pricing
Choose whether prices shown to customers include tax or have tax added at checkout. Works for both display formats without extra configuration.
Real-time tax reports
Your Stripe dashboard shows collected tax broken down by state, transaction, and date range. Export the data you need for filing.
Works with all payment methods
Tax is calculated and collected the same way regardless of whether the customer pays by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, or a buy-now-pay-later option.
Stripe Tax questions, answered
What sellers ask most about automatic sales tax on Buy Social
Stop guessing on sales tax
Stripe Tax calculates the right amount on every order so you don't have to.