Retrieve VAT or sales tax
Overview
- Populate the Order object with information. Avangate needs the BillingDetails (object) information to calculate taxes.
- Use the getContents method to get info on all the products added to cart by the shopper in the current session.
- The output of the getContents method is the Order session content object.
- Under the Price, access information including for each product purchased. Find value added tax and sales tax details under the VAT parameter.
- Tax information is also available for the entire order object. Find value added tax and sales tax details under the VAT parameter.
- Calculate the VAT/sales tax rates using the VAT and NetPrice values.
Parameters
Parameters | Type/Description |
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sessionID |
Required (string) |
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Session identifier, the output of the Login method. Include sessionID into all your requests. Avangate throws an exception if the values are incorrect. The sessionID expires in 10 minutes. |
Required (Object) |
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Object designed to collect all data necessary for an order, including billing, product/subscription plan and payment details. |
Response
Object |
Request
<?php function callRPC($Request, $hostUrl, $Debug = true) { $curl = curl_init($hostUrl); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 0); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json', 'Accept: application/json')); $RequestString = json_encode($Request); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $RequestString); if ($Debug) { $RequestString; } $ResponseString = curl_exec($curl); if ($Debug) { $ResponseString; } if (!empty($ResponseString)) { $Response = json_decode($ResponseString); if (isset($Response->result)) { return $Response->result; } if (!is_null($Response->error)) { var_dump($Request->method, $Response->error); } } else { return null; } } $host = 'https://api.avangate.com/rpc/3.0/'; $merchantCode = "YOUR_MERCHANT_CODE";// your account's merchant code available in the 'System settings' area of the cPanel: https://secure.avangate.com/cpanel/account_settings.php $key = "YOUR_SECRET_KEY";// your account's secret key available in the 'System settings' area of the cPanel: https://secure.avangate.com/cpanel/account_settings.php $string = strlen($merchantCode) . $merchantCode . strlen(gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s')) . gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s'); $hash = hash_hmac('md5', $string, $key); $i = 1; // counter for api calls // call login $jsonRpcRequest = new stdClass(); $jsonRpcRequest->jsonrpc = '2.0'; $jsonRpcRequest->method = 'login'; $jsonRpcRequest->params = array($merchantCode, gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s'), $hash); $jsonRpcRequest->id = $i++; $sessionID = callRPC($jsonRpcRequest, $host); var_dump($sessionID); $Order = new stdClass(); $Order->RefNo = NULL; $Order->Currency = 'usd'; $Order->Country = 'US'; $Order->Language = 'en'; $Order->CustomerIP = '91.220.121.21'; $Order->ExternalReference = NULL; $Order->Source = NULL; $Order->AffiliateId = NULL; $Order->CustomerReference = NULL; $Order->Items = array(); $Order->Items[0] = new stdClass(); $Order->Items[0]->Code = 'my_subscription_1'; $Order->Items[0]->Quantity = 1; $Order->Items[0]->PriceOptions = NULL; $Order->Items[0]->SKU = NULL; $Order->Items[0]->Price = NULL; $Order->Items[0]->CrossSell = NULL; $Order->Items[0]->Trial = false; $Order->Items[0]->AdditionalFields = NULL; $Order->Items[0]->Promotion = NULL; $Order->BillingDetails = new stdClass(); $Order->BillingDetails->FirstName = 'FirstName'; $Order->BillingDetails->LastName = 'LastName'; $Order->BillingDetails->CountryCode = 'us'; $Order->BillingDetails->State = 'California'; $Order->BillingDetails->City = 'LA'; $Order->BillingDetails->Address1 = 'Address example'; $Order->BillingDetails->Address2 = NULL; $Order->BillingDetails->Zip = '90210'; $Order->BillingDetails->Email = 'customer@email.com'; $Order->BillingDetails->Phone = NULL; $Order->BillingDetails->Company = NULL; $Order->DeliveryDetails = NULL; $Order->PaymentDetails = new stdClass (); $Order->PaymentDetails->Type = 'TEST'; $Order->PaymentDetails->Currency = 'usd'; $Order->PaymentDetails->PaymentMethod = new stdClass (); $Order->PaymentDetails->CustomerIP = '10.10.10.10'; $Order->PaymentDetails->PaymentMethod->RecurringEnabled = true; $Order->PaymentDetails->PaymentMethod->CardNumber = "4111111111111111"; $Order->PaymentDetails->PaymentMethod->CardType = 'visa'; $Order->PaymentDetails->PaymentMethod->ExpirationYear = '2019'; $Order->PaymentDetails->PaymentMethod->ExpirationMonth = '12'; $Order->PaymentDetails->PaymentMethod->HolderName = 'John'; $Order->PaymentDetails->PaymentMethod->CCID = '123'; $Order->Promotions = NULL; $Order->AdditionalFields = NULL; $Order->LocalTime = NULL; $Order->GiftDetails = NULL; $jsonRpcRequest = array ( 'method' => 'getContents', 'params' => array($sessionID, $Order), 'id' => $i++, 'jsonrpc' => '2.0' ); echo '<BR>'; echo 'The content of the current session:'; echo '<BR>'; var_dump (callRPC((Object)$jsonRpcRequest, $host, true));