Woocommerce Sales Tax discrepancies

Hi @howacoglass,

Thanks for contacting us ??

In WooCommerce Analytics orders with excluded statuses are not counted in the totals of your reports.

https://woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-analytics/#analytics-settings

If still not matching after changing excluded statuses, clear the analytics cache in WooCommerce > Status > Tools > Clear analytics cache:

After that, if the issue persists, please try Reimporting Historical Data in Analytics > Settings, as described here:

https://woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-analytics/#analytics-settings__import-historical-data

Cheers.

Thank you for your reply, but that actually makes it even more confusing. Canceled and Failed orders taxes should not be included in the sales tax and those are checked in my setup. I should not pay in sales tax on orders that did not complete.
But, so why are my Reports still showing so much less “collected” sales tax? If the Analytics is excluding info, the reports should show more tax then the Analytics, not less, correct?
But, this still leaves me confused, I have NO idea if I paid in the right amount of sales tax for 2021. My website has only been up and running since last summer, so there is no historical data to bring in, it is all current. How can I figure out what sales tax figure is right? Only sales tax I should be paying to the state is on completed orders, that is pretty cut and dry, but I have no idea how to get that correct amount from the setup that is available to me.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
I did decide to try to import the historical data “just because” and it won’t, it says: Status: Nothing To Import

• This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by howacoglass.

Hi there,

Thanks for getting back to us.

Could you please send us screenshots of your Reports and Analytics tax figures so we can investigate this further?

I recommend https://snipboard.io for easily sharing screenshots – please follow the instructions on that page, then paste the URL in this thread. It works with Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge browsers.

Could you please share a copy of your site’s System Status? You can find it via WooCommerce > Status. Select “Get system report” and then “Copy for support”. Once you’ve done that, paste it here in your response.

Cheers.

Thank you again. Screen shots and report:

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Ohhhhhh, just had a thought, I don’t think this should matter, but, I had some custom work done on my site to be able to sell some items in fractional quantities. Some of my items can be sold in 0.25, 0.50, 0.75 or 1.25, 1.5 etc. I know that is not the norm for woocommerce, but, on the orders the sales tax is calculated correctly, I have double checked many of them when the work on the site was first done, but wondering if maybe that could mess something up in the reports somewhere else maybe?

Hi @howacoglass

Thanks for sharing the screenshots and the System Status Report.

I had some custom work done on my site to be able to sell some items in fractional quantities. Some of my items can be sold in 0.25, 0.50, 0.75 or 1.25, 1.5 etc.

Is it possible to temporarily disable that custom coding? That experiment would be decisive in confirming whether the mismatch in the figures is originating from the fractional quantities.

We understand that you would not want to run such a test on your live production site. You can create a duplicate/staging site instead. Many hosting providers offer site staging facilities, but if you don’t have such a feature, you can create one with the WP Staging plugin.

Please also upgrade your PHP version (PHP Version: 7.3.33). As per our server recommendations, WooCommerce requires PHP 7.4 and above to run smoothly. To update the PHP version please refer to: https://woocommerce.com/document/update-php-wordpress/#section-10

After thinking about it, I do not believe the custom coding has anything to do with it. The reason I think that is because the reports and the analytics show different amounts of orders. Counting the number of orders for my state would have nothing to do with the items in the order that generate the sales tax.
I am working on updating the PHP and will look at doing a test in the staging site, that might take me a couple days to get that figured out and I will be back with the results. Thank you so much for your help!

• This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by howacoglass.

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