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Stripe Tax is one of the external tax providers Alguna can use to calculate sales tax, VAT and GST on invoices: with it enabled, Alguna asks Stripe to compute tax for every invoice line from the customer’s address and the product’s tax code, and records the result on the invoice. Use it when you already run tax registrations in Stripe and want the same rates on Alguna invoices, regardless of whether Stripe also collects the payment. The alternatives are rules you maintain yourself (Alguna Tax) or Anrok (External tax providers); how tax fits into invoicing is in Tax overview. This integration requires a Stripe account.

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Set up Stripe Tax

Production: https://app.alguna.io/settings/connections/integrations
Sandbox: https://app.sandbox.alguna.io/settings/connections/integrations
1

Connect Stripe

Log into the correct environment and go to Settings → Connections → Integrations. Click Connect on the Stripe integration and allow access to your Stripe account.
2

Name the integration

Give the connection a name you will recognise later, particularly if you connect more than one Stripe account.
3

Choose the source of new accounts

Decide whether Alguna creates the corresponding customers in Stripe. This setting applies to the Alguna to Stripe direction only.
4

Decide about importing existing customers

When you are setting up a sandbox, skip the import so you are not testing against real customer records. You can trigger an import later.
5

Enable Stripe Tax as your tax provider

In Settings → Workflows → Billing → Tax, set the tax provider to Stripe Tax. Alguna then asks Stripe to calculate tax on each invoice, using the customer’s address and the tax code on each product.
Stripe Tax needs your tax registrations configured in Stripe, and a tax code on each product in Alguna. See External Tax Providers for the tax code list.

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Features Included

  • Sales tax is calculated on every invoice Alguna generates, using the customer’s address and the product’s tax code.
  • Stripe keeps rates current, so you are not maintaining rate tables by hand.
  • Calculations are recorded against the invoice, so the figure on the invoice is the figure that was calculated. They can be read back and run ad hoc through the Tax endpoints.