Real-time Tax calculation

The problem currently is the sheer volume of tax rates and types and rules around what someone needs to register for and when, around the world. The location of the business and the customer change tax obligations, so the current “flat rate tax” just doesn’t cut it for a virtual event, unless someone was restricting audience to a single jurisidication.

Would love to see custom/real-time tax calculation, the type of thing payment platforms like Stripe Tax, Lemon Squeezy, Thrivecart and Quaderno help solve.

I love the HeySummit checkout and want to avoid needing an expensive third party tool, or using another checkout provider.

Ideas for potential solutions below!

Option 1: Integrate with Stripe Tax

I’ve requested this before here: https://feedback.heysummit.com/p/integrate-with-stripe-tax

• I still think this would be a great solution. I posted this originally before the PayPal integration, so my thought was this be an easy win to make custom tax calculation optional at the Stripe account level, and still capture all sales. Obviously it might not be as bullet-proof for people who are now using multiple payment providers.

• More and more businesses seem to be using Stripe Tax so I still think it’d be a great option to have if it’s easy to build; but obviously wouldn’t help people who use other payment providers.

Option 2: Build a native HeySummit tax calcuation.

• Thrivecart does this quite well and is a good reference, but does require some level of setup. Quaderno is the best example of this, not sure if it’s practical to build something in like that but that seems to be the gold standard for this type of thing.

Thanks so much for considering this one team, I know this is a big one, but it’s something that’s only getting more important and complex for event producers and business owners, not less.