Automatically collect tax on Payment Links
You can use Stripe Tax with Payment Links to automatically calculate and collect tax on a payment page and share a link to it with your customers, without writing any code.
Set up Stripe Tax
Before collecting tax on your Payment Links, you need to configure your tax settings within the Dashboard.
Update your products and prices
Stripe Tax uses information stored on the Products and Prices APIs to determine the right rates and rules to apply when calculating tax. Update the products and prices you use to include:
- Tax behavior: the tax behavior on a price can be either “inclusive” or “exclusive”. This determines how the buyer sees the tax. When you set tax behavior to exclusive, it adds tax onto the subtotal amount you specify on your price. This is common in US markets and for B2B sales. When set to inclusive, the amount your buyer pays never changes, even if the tax rate varies. This is common practice for B2C buyers in many markets outside the US.
- (optional) Tax category: a tax category is a classification of your product or service for Stripe Tax. We use this to make sure that we apply the correct tax rate to your transactions. Some examples include “Audio book”, “Gift card”, or “Software as a service”. If you don’t set this, Stripe Tax uses the default tax category set in tax settings.
You can’t change tax_behavior after you set it to one of “exclusive” or “inclusive."
Learn more about Products, prices, tax codes, and tax behavior.
Create a link
In the Dashboard, open the Payment Links page and click + New. Then:
- Select +Add a new product.
- Fill out the product details.
- Click Add product.
- Click Next.
- Click Create link.
Enable Stripe Tax
We enable Stripe Tax automatically on all Payment Links unless you switch off the toggle at the bottom of the tax settings page. In the Payment Link configuration page, you’ll see that Collect tax automatically is already on:
