It’s supposed to be easy. Eventually, it is. If you use to charge users and plan on using for charging sales tax, you’re probably looking for a simple plug & play solution. It very much is this type of solution, but it isn’t very well documented. Stripe Avalara’s AvaTax This post is all about laying out the required steps to making it work quickly and easily. Examples are written in node.js but can easily be converted to any language Stripe’s API supports. First Step: Ask Stripe to Allow Your Account to Use The pay_immediately flag Contact Stripe’s support and ask them to enable the usage of the flag for you for the purpose of integrating AvaTax. pay_immediately For AvaTax to integrate with Stripe, you have to give AvaTax to a chance to catch new invoices and add the sales tax to the invoice. You do this by sending the attribute upon subscription creation. . pay_immediately = false This flag is not well documented anywhere and is disabled by default Avalara do , but it’s easy to miss. mention it in their documentation Second Step: Update Address Details in The Customer’s Metadata Add address details that AvaTax will use to calculate the tax for future invoices. This can happen at any time prior to creating the subscription. Only and are mandatory but you can add to make the tax calculation more accurate. Address_PostalCode Address_Country more details stripe = ( )(STRIPE_KEY); customer = stripe.customers.update(
  CUSTOMER_ID,
  { : { : , : }		
  }
); const require 'stripe' const await metadata 'Address_PostalCode' '10001' // Valid Postal Code 'Address_Country' 'US' // ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 Country Code Third Step: Add pay_immediately = false to Your Subscription Creation Request When you create the subscription, add the attribute with the value false. pay_immediately stripe = ( )(STRIPE_KEY); subscription = stripe.subscriptions.create({ : CUSTOMER_ID, : [
    { : PRICE_ID},
  ], : }); const require 'stripe' const await customer items price pay_immediately false Fourth Step: Wait for Webhook Events Your invoice will not be charged immediately (as you requested), and AvaTax will pick it up. This could take a couple of seconds. will allow you to know what happened with your invoice under their care. Avalara’s webhooks That’s it. It’s fairly easy and straightforward, but it’s rather hard to find good documentation for it.

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