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| Enhancement |
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| Anticipated Launch Date: |
| March 2005 |
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This project improves the tax functionality on eBay to better support high volume Sellers, and Sellers who operate in more than one geographic location. Specifically, Advanced Seller Checkout allows Sellers to specify tax rates for multiple locations. This feature only affects the US eBay Site (eBay.com). |
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In order to take advantage of these new Checkout features, Developers must accommodate changes in the following API calls: AddItem, AddOrder, AddTemplate, GetBidderList, GetItem, GetItemTransactions, GetOrders, GetOrderTransactions, GetSellerList, GetSellerTransactions, RelistItem, ReviseItem, VerifyAddItem, and GeteBayDetails. |
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Two new API calls associated with Advanced Seller Checkout are GetTaxTable and SetTaxTable. |
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Two new API calls associated with Advanced Seller Checkout are GetTaxTable and SetTaxTable. |
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Additionally, there is a logic change to the SetStore API call to enable Sellers to customize their Checkout pages. However, no interface changes to the SetStore API call are required to accommodate this customization. |
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| Feature Description: |
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Advanced Seller Checkout extends sales tax support for all US States. Currently, Sellers can only specify a single state in which they charge tax along with an associated tax rate for that state. Advanced Seller Checkout allows Sellers to specify a tax table with a unique rate for all 50 states plus the District of Columbia. From an API perspective, this involves the creation of two new API calls: GetTaxTable and SetTaxTable. These calls will enable applications to “get†and “set†a Seller's tax table (which is a global preference). |
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In addition, all the Item-related API calls are being modified to support indicators that a tax table applies to an item and, where appropriate, to return the values in that tax table. This is necessary since tax table values are stored with an item at the time of listing. |
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If Sellers to not want to take advantage of this feature – they can continue to support the single state and single tax-rate mechanism that is currently available. |
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| Feature Benefits: |
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Advanced Seller Checkout enables high volume Sellers to leverage multiple tax rates. Additionally, the feature will increase Checkout completion rates for buyers by bringing increased consistency to the Checkout flow across eBay. Key benefits include increase Seller adoption of Checkout, improved Checkout initiation and completion rates, and reducing the number of unpaid items for eBay Sellers. |
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