We sell books on our Shopify website. In some US states and some European countries, different product formats attract different rates of tax. For example, in the UK a printed (physical) book is zero rated, as are eBooks or Audiobooks. However, in some territories, the physical book is zero rated but the Audiobook of the same title attracts X% tax.
We don’t want to separate printed books, eBooks and Audiobooks for the same title into separate listings, so we need to be able to apply tax rates at a variant level of the product. However, what we are finding is that Shopify only permits us to apply a tax rate to the parent level of the product.
Is there a way to apply taxes to product variations in Shopify?
@alexfwalker Shopify does not natively enable setting taxes at the variant level, tax settings apply at a product level only. When dealing with multiple variants, which have their different tax rates, you can use a third-party application or engage with a Shopify Expert who can create a custom solution using Shopify’s API to manage tax logic specific to each variant.
Sorry, I’m not 100% clear on what part of Elevate response to trust! I know you can’t tag variants, so am ignoring that part. But I am curious about 3rd party apps as if I’ve understood correctly and Shopify only allows tax rate to be set at parent level, not variant level, then a 3rd party app couldn’t help us anyway?
Same issue on the store I’m working on, it makes organising products a mess, and while some stuff can be patched via bandaid solutions like using metafields and displaying buttons on product pages I’m genuinely surprised Shopify does not support this out of the box, making book listings more annoying to display.