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How tax rate setting affects Default sales prices on Bigcommerce imported products

The tax rate setting is important for defining Default sales prices for products in product cards in Katana

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Written by Michael De Giovanni
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Understand how your BigCommerce tax settings impact the default sales prices of products imported into Katana.


Katana pricing logic

  • In Katana, default sales prices (on product cards) are always recorded without tax.

  • Taxes are only applied when products are added to sales orders (SOs).


BigCommerce tax settings

In BigCommerce, you can configure whether product prices include taxes:

  • Prices entered with tax

    • Yes: product prices include tax.

    • No: product prices exclude tax.

You can check this setting in BigCommerce > Settings > Tax > Store tax settings.

Screenshot of BigCommerce's store tax settings screen

How imports work

When products are imported from BigCommerce, you can include a % tax for VAT/GST:

Screenshot of the BigCommerce integration setup highlighting the tax % area
  • If a percentage is added

    • Katana will use this default tax rate during import.

    • It removes tax from BigCommerce prices to calculate the tax-exclusive sales price in Katana.

  • If no percentage is added

    • Katana ignores the tax rate field.

    • The product’s sales price is imported as-is, since it’s already tax-exclusive.

Note: SOs imported from BigCommerce will always keep the exact price shown in BigCommerce, even if it differs from the default sales price stored in Katana.


Examples

Example 1: Prices entered with % tax

  • BigCommerce setting: Prices entered with tax = Yes

  • Product price in BigCommerce: $100 (tax included)

  • Default tax rate: 20% VAT/GST

  • Katana default sales price: $83.33 (calculated as 100 ÷ 1.20)

Example 2: Prices entered without % tax

  • BigCommerce setting: Prices entered with tax = No

  • Product price in BigCommerce: $100 (tax excluded)

  • Katana default sales price: $100


With the correct setup, Katana ensures your product prices are always stored tax-exclusive, while SOs reflect the prices as they appear in BigCommerce.


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