Tax Calculation Developer Guide

This section describes the audience and purpose of this guide as well as conventions and related documentation.

Audience and Purpose

This guide is written for application developers who want to use the
Simple Order API
to integrate tax calculation into an order management system.
Implementing the tax calculation service requires software development skills. You must write code that uses the API request and response fields to integrate the tax calculation service into an existing order management system.

Conventions

The following special statements are used in this document:
An
Important
statement contains information essential to successfully completing a task or learning a concept.
A
Warning
contains information or instructions, which, if not heeded, can result in a security risk, irreversible loss of data, or significant cost in time or revenue or both.

Testing

We recommend you test all use uses to ensure the tax engine is calculating taxes as expected before going live. Contact
Cybersource
Customer Support to have your test account set up to return production-level tax rates for short-term testing needs. You will be required to use a production merchant for testing if you have long-term testing needs that require production-level data for ongoing validation.
Use the Developer Center to test Value Added Services:

Related Documentation

Refer to the Support Center for complete technical documentation:

Customer Support

For support information about any service, visit the Support Center: