If you are running a business on eBay, you will have to provide information on the taxes you collect and which English speaking eBay site you want to list to.
If you are running a business on eBay, you will also have to provide some information about your business including how you track inventory, where/if you collect taxes, and which English speaking eBay site you want to list to.
Some users track inventory while others do not. If you do not track inventory, then you do not want inventory information cluttering up your user interface. If you do track inventory, then you may have specific rules about what you want to do when eB senses you are low on inventory. This information can be provided in the Inventory settings.
From Tools|Options, select Inventory under Business Setup in the Options tree. The following settings will appear.
Fill in the settings as follows:
I use the Inventory Management feature - Turn this on or off to hide or show the inventory fields in the interface.
When creating a listing...
Do not create the listing - This prevents you from listing more than you have.
Create the listing with the available inventory - This lets you still list, but won't list more than you have.
Create the listing regardless... - This will not check the available inventory when submitting items. Use this if you have an easily replenishable supply.
Show a warning... - In the case where eB submits more items than you have on hand, you can choose to see a popup warning or simply have the warning written to the log file.
Depending upon the laws in your state/country, you may be required to collect taxes. Much of the tax collection process is handled by eBay's Checkout process. In the cases where Checkout is used, eB will store the tax that was calculated at eBay. If Checkout is not used, tax is calculated based on the information entered into the Tax Table.
From Tools|Options, select Tax Table under Business Setup in the Options tree. The following settings will appear.
Fill in the table columns as follows:
Sales Tax Authority Type - There are different taxing authorities that you may have to collect taxes for. Select the State, City, Zip or Country that you must collect taxes for. When a sale is recorded, if the State, City, Zip or Country field in the buyers information is exactly the same as the value provided here, the tax will get calculated.
Sales Tax Authority State - Enter the state, city, country or zip that you charge tax for. This must match exactly the value in the buyer record for the tax to be calculated.
Tax Percent - Enter the tax percent to collect to the nearest thousandths.
Include tax on shipping? - Depending upon the laws in your state (taxing authority) you may or may not be required to collect tax on the shipping portion of the sale. Please consult local codes.
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Much of our tax implementation is collected in anticipation of future tax requirements and eBay features. Currently, eBay supports charging taxes in multiple states, but not by city or country. If they implement this in the future, then it will already be in eB. Also, the Simplified Sales Tax plan being considered in many states will require sellers to charge tax based on the zip code of the buyer. When/if this is implemented, you may be required to store the taxes that are charged by zip code. At that time, eB will support the ability to do that. |
Enabling a new site is as simple as checking a box. After enabling a site, the Site dropdown will be available in the Main window sidebar and will allow you to choose which site's information you are looking at.
From Tools|Options, select Sites under the Business Setup in the sidebar. The following settings will appear.
Place a check next to any site that you want to list to.
