{"id":16792,"date":"2019-02-11T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/edu\/woocommerce\/how-to-manually-set-up-automated-taxes-in-woocommerce\/"},"modified":"2020-03-12T14:39:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T18:39:21","slug":"how-to-manually-set-up-automated-taxes-in-woocommerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/boldgrid-woocommerce-plugin-product-guide\/how-to-manually-set-up-automated-taxes-in-woocommerce\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Manually Set Up Automated Taxes in WooCommerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><p><span>WooCommerce simplifies sales taxes for you by including an option called Automated Taxes when you install the WooCommerce plugin. &nbsp;This is the option that you will see during the installation process:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/660984b5-a3b5-4fd5-8575-8badcb566140_automated-taxes.png\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 700\">Automated Taxes<\/span><span>&nbsp;option in WooCommerce saves you a lot of time by automatically calculated required sales tax during the checkout process. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"manually-setting-up-automated-taxes-in-woocommerce\"><span>Manually Setting up Automated Taxes in WooCommerce<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>If you somehow skipped this option, then this is what you need to do in order to enable it after the installation has completed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">NOTE: &nbsp;In order to use <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 700\">Automated Taxes<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic\">&nbsp;in WooCommerce you must have <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 700\">Jetpack<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic\">&nbsp;installed. &nbsp;Make sure to install it before you follow the steps below.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Go to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 700\">Settings<\/span><span>&nbsp;and click on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 700\">General<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Scroll down the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 700\">General<\/span><span>&nbsp;page and find <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 700\">Enable Taxes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Check the box and then scroll to the bottom of the page and click on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 700\">Save Changes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Once the option has been saved you will see a new tab labeled <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 700\">Taxes<\/span><span>. &nbsp;Click on this tab<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>The very first option under <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 700\">Tax Options<\/span><span>&nbsp;is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 700\">Automated Taxes<\/span><span>. &nbsp;Since you&rsquo;re trying to enable it at this point, the field will say <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 700\">Disabled<\/span><span>. &nbsp;Click on the drop-down arrow and change it to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 700\">Enabled<\/span><span>. &nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Once you changed it, scroll to the bottom and click on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 700\">Save Changes<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>This completes the manual installation process for <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 700\">Automated Taxes<\/span><span>&nbsp;in WooCommerce.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WooCommerce simplifies sales taxes for you by including an option called Automated Taxes when you install the WooCommerce plugin. &nbsp;This is the option that you will see during the installation process: The Automated Taxes&nbsp;option in WooCommerce saves you a lot of time by automatically calculated required sales tax during the checkout process. &nbsp; 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