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How Do I Add Tax to a Price in WooCommerce?

Last updated on October 1, 2022 @ 4:16 pm

Adding tax to a price in WooCommerce is easy! You can either add tax to the product price when setting up your products, or you can add it to the cart total when the customer goes to checkout. If you want to add tax to the product price, you need to go to the ‘Products’ tab in your WordPress admin panel and edit the product.

On the ‘General’ tab, there is a ‘Tax Status’ dropdown. Select ‘Taxable’ from this dropdown and then save your changes. The product price will now include tax.

If you want to add tax to the cart total, you need to go to the ‘WooCommerce’ tab in your WordPress admin panel and click on ‘Settings’. On the ‘General’ tab, there is a ‘Taxes’ section.

Tick the ‘Enable Taxes and Tax calculations’ checkbox and then save your changes. The cart total will now include tax.

That’s all there is to it! Adding tax to prices in WooCommerce is easy and only takes a few minutes.

PRO TIP: If you are not careful, adding tax to a price in WooCommerce can result in an inaccurate total. Be sure to use the correct tax rate for your area, and consider any rounding issues that may occur.

Adding Tax to a Price in WooCommerce

Adding tax to a price in WooCommerce is easy! You can either add tax to the product price when setting up your products, or you can add it to the cart total when the customer goes to checkout.

If you want to add tax to the product price, you need to go to the ‘Products’ tab in your WordPress admin panel and edit the product. On the ‘General’ tab, there is a ‘Tax Status’ dropdown.

Select ‘Taxable’ from this dropdown and then save your changes.

(Alternatively), if you want to add tax only at checkout, you need go into your WooCommerce settings. In here, select the “Enable Taxes”. Once that’s done, navigate back into each of your products and on their “General”>tab, make sure their individual “Tax Status”>is set as ““Shipping Only”” or ““None”” for products that are not taxable.

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That’s all there is too it! Adding taxes into WooCommerce is easy and only takes a few minutes whether done during set up or byproduct.

Kathy McFarland

Kathy McFarland

Devops woman in trade, tech explorer and problem navigator.