On Tuesday, September 29th, we’ll be changing the way we handle taxes. Currently Big Cartel allows you to assign tax settings to each product, now however, taxes will be applied store-wide in your Store > Settings section. This makes it easier to have consistent tax settings across your store, without needing to hassle with each product individually.

Along with this change, we’ll be removing the field to charge a flat tax amount through Big Cartel, and you can instead use PayPal’s extensive tax features.

What does this mean for me?

If you don’t currently charge tax, or you’re already using PayPal’s tax features, then you don’t need to do anything! Everything will work exactly like it does already. If you currently charge a flat tax rate using Big Cartel, then you’ll just want to setup your PayPal tax settings to match those rates.

Lastly, if you’ve made changes to your cart page HTML or have a totally custom theme, you’ll want to make note of the changes to tax related variables in our HTML API.

As always, let us know if you have any questions.