This direct integration allows you to track tax and remit that from within your tax-inclusive pricing as set on Thinkific. If you'd prefer to dynamically charge tax on top of your pricing, you can also take payment via Quaderno's checkout flow. See Quaderno Checkout Option below for details.
Note
TCommerce now offers a Sales Tax and VAT Solution to help you calculate, collect, and remit taxes in the US and Canada and calculate VAT in the EU and the UK, so you can focus on what you do best: growing your business.
For more, see: TCommerce: Powered by Thinkific Payments · TCommerce: Sales Tax and VAT Solution
Quaderno automates tax calculation and invoicing for your Thinkific courses. Any time a student subscribes to a course, Quaderno will automatically calculate the correct tax based on your customer's location, generate and send the invoice, and update your reports. With Quaderno, your business will automatically comply with local VAT, GST, and sales tax laws around the world.
Your course price will include taxes and each student pays the same rate regardless of location. Quaderno allows you to track what percentage of each enrollment is considered tax and must be remitted to your government.
Below, we include instructions for integrating Quaderno with your Thinkific site for payments taken via both Stripe and PayPal.
Warning
Quaderno cannot be used with Thinkific's Built-In Checkout or if you are using TCommerce. However, TCommerce now offers a Sales Tax and VAT Solution to help you calculate, collect, and remit taxes in the US and Canada and calculate VAT in the EU and the UK.
For more, see: Thinkific's Built-In Checkout · TCommerce: Sales Tax and VAT Solution
To set this up, first, make sure you have your Stripe account connected to your Thinkific site in the Settings section of your Admin Dashboard.
Then once you've signed up for an account at Quaderno.io, follow these instructions to connect your Stripe account with your new Quaderno account.
For more, see: Accept Payments with Stripe · Admin Dashboard: A Closer Look
If you're taking payment for your courses via PayPal, first make sure that you have followed these instructions to integrate your PayPal account with Thinkific.
In Quaderno, you'll just need to make sure the same PayPal account is connected.
For more, see: Accept Payments with PayPal
Finally, in order for Quaderno to know your customers' locations, you need to make it so that this information is collected from students upon signing up to your site.
To do this, you'll need to create two required Custom Fields spelled exactly as follows:
For more, see: Create Custom Fields
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Country
Make sure to select field type Country list from the dropdown menu and set as required
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Postal code — Make sure the field type is Text field and set as required
Once you have integrated with Stripe and/or PayPal as well as your custom fields, your customer's Country and Postal code details will display on your Quaderno receipt. A receipt will automatically be generated for each payment received. If receipts are not automatically sent, you can also check out Quaderno's article on Automatic Invoicing for Thinkific.
Note that with this set up, the customer will not see a breakdown of taxes when they view pricing in the checkout, however, the receipt will break down the price and taxes for your customer:
If you prefer to add taxes on top of your prices depending on your customer's location, see Quaderno Checkout Option below.
If you prefer to add taxes on top of your prices depending on your customer's location, you can use Quaderno's Checkout.
Note
Using Quaderno's checkout bypasses the Thinkific checkout, so you will still need to enroll students into your course after their purchase. Zapier works well to automate this and you can check out External Payment Solution: Managing Enrollments for other enrollment options!
For more, see: Working with Zapier · External Payment Solution: Managing Enrollments
Refer to these instructions on how to create a Quaderno Checkout link. Then you can customize your buy buttons on your landing pages to link to this custom checkout:
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Create your Quaderno Checkout link
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Copy the link
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From the Admin Dashboard, go to Products
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Select Courses
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Hover over your desired course and select Manage
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Click Build product page in the top-right corner
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Select the existing Banner section
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Select Add button
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Click Button label
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In Text field, input desired button text
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In Link field, select Custom URL
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In URL field, paste your Quaderno Checkout link
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Click Save
Now when visitors click on your Buy button, they will be taken to your Quaderno checkout.
Tip
Your Quaderno checkout link can be used in any Site Builder section that includes a button, like Banners and Call to action sections.
For more, see: Site Builder Sections Overview
If you are using a custom checkout link, set your Course to Private to prevent users from using the default Thinkific checkout.
For more, see: Private and Hidden Products
After a student makes a purchase using Quaderno's checkout, you'll need to enroll them into your course. For some options on automating this process, check out External Payment Solution: Managing Enrollments.