Create and apply taxes
You can create and manage taxes through the Dashboard in your web browser, the GoDaddy smart terminal Catalog app, or the Terminal app. When you define taxes, you enable the Register app to automatically calculate and apply taxes to items during a transaction.
Note: Taxes that you create in GoDaddy Payments don’t carry over to orders placed through the GoDaddy mobile app. To apply taxes during Checkout in the mobile app, tap Tax (under Subtotal) and then enter the tax percentage.
Create taxes in your Dashboard to apply to a specific product catalog.
- Sign in to your In Person Overview page (use your GoDaddy username and password).
- Select Catalogs. (You'll need to create a catalog for your Smart Terminal if you haven’t already.)
- Select a catalog where you want to apply taxes.
- Below your catalog’s name, select Taxes, and then Select Add tax.
- Either create a new tax rate or apply an existing tax rate to items in your catalog:
- To create a new tax, select Create Tax and fill in the Name, Type (such as sales tax, alcohol tax, etc) and Percent(%) or Amount ($) and select Save.
- To use an existing tax, select Add existing, and select the box next to the tax you want to add, then select Add.
Note: To apply tax to an individual product, select the item and turn on the Item Level Tax toggle. If you apply taxes to a catalog, don’t add additional taxes at the product level – you don’t want to charge tax twice!
Use the Catalog app on the smart terminal to create taxes and apply them at the item, category or full catalog level.
- On the smart terminal home screen, tap Catalog. To change to a different catalog, tap Switch, then the catalog name.
- Tap Taxes, and then tap Add Tax.
- Either create a new tax rate or apply an existing tax rate to items in your catalog:
- To create a new tax, select Create Tax and fill in the Name, Type (such as sales tax, alcohol tax, etc) and Percent (%) or Amount ($) and select Save.
- To use an existing tax, select Add existing, and select the box next to the tax you want to add, then tap Add.
Note: To apply tax to an individual product or category, select the product or category, then Edit taxes. If you apply taxes to a catalog, don’t add additional taxes at the product or category level – you don’t want to charge tax twice!
Set a tax rate for transactions you process using the Terminal app on the Smart Terminal, which doesn't use a product catalog (where taxes are saved).
- Tap Settings on the second page of the Smart Terminal home screen.
- Tap Business Settings.
- Switch the Tax on Terminal App toggle to On.
- Switch the toggle next to Tax 1 (0%) to On.
- Tap
Edit.
- Enter a Name for the tax.
- Enter the tax Percentage. To enter a dollar amount, switch the toggle to $.
- Tap Save.
Once you apply taxes to products in a catalog, the tax rate is applied automatically to those items when you complete a transaction in the Register app.
- On the Smart Terminal home screen, tap Register.
- Create an order using the Register app.
- Manually adjust the tax rate for the full order or for a specific product in the order:
- Order: Tap the Tax On/Tax Off button in the upper-left corner to apply the tax rate that you've associated to the products in the order. No tax is applied to products that don't have an associated tax rate.
- Product: To add or remove tax from a specific item in the order, tap Order Details, then tap
Edit next to the item. Under Include Tax, switch the appropriate toggle On/Off. Tap Confirm.
Note: If no tax is assigned at the catalog, category or item level, you will not be able to turn taxes on or off for an item during a transaction.
- Complete the transaction.
