Stripe

You can include any additional costs by passing them to the amount field as one lump sum when creating a charge.

Sales tax

While we don’t currently calculate fees like sales tax, VAT, or GST for you automatically, there are several third-party services built for Stripe users that can help:

• Avalara
• BBillbo
• Octobat
• Quaderno
• Taxamo
• TaxCloud

It’s important to remember that sales tax rules vary by region. We recommend checking with a local accountant to understand what, if any, taxes you’re obligated to pay (e.g., based on the zip or postal code). You can then work with one of these services or calculate the sales tax yourself before making a charge through Stripe.

Including custom costs in your reports

Since we’re focused on the final amount you charged your customers, we don’t have a field specifically for these additional costs. However, you can still keep track of these costs to make them easier to track:

• Use metadata to annotate your charges with this data. We’ll include any data you store in metadata with your exports.

• Store the different fields in your local database with a reference to the charge ID

Subscriptions

If you would like to add sales tax to recurring payments, you’ll want to check out this article.