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Adding Tax Rate to an Item
Adding Tax Rate to an Item

How to add tax rates to a pattern for use in transcribing items

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Written by Will Bewley
Updated over 5 years ago

Some clients require Tax as a field on the Item level. This is because when a customer orders food from the client's app, they need to also charge the customer the local taxes on the item.

Tax is set at an item level, as a percentage of the price. Therefore you need to add Tax as a field when setting up a pattern. This should be a value between 0 and 100.

🚨 There is a known value bug where tax will show in a pattern as this: 

This is okay, it doesn't impact using it and will be fixed shortly. 

Set up Tax as a Static Value

It is common that all values will have the same tax rate, or 1 of 2 or 3 rates. So we often will set up a Static Value for the tax rate.

Using a Static Value means that we only need to set it up once for each item when we use the same pattern.

Reviewing Menus with Tax rates

After we add items with a tax rate, we'll see the tax rate 

In both the Review Fragment and Review mode, you'll see the tax rates for each item:

Review screen:

Depending how the client's output is set up will depend how this tax rate is utilized.

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