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Introduction

Quaderno helps you scale your business without stressing about taxes.

We provide the tools you need to automate tax compliance and sell anywhere online.

Tracking thresholds and tax rates is tedious and time-consuming. Instead, focus on making sales while Quaderno ensures compliance with VAT, GST and other sales tax rules.

Fast track​

Understand Quaderno in 5 minutes!

  1. Register for a Sandbox account, and go to your profile to get your API Keys.

  2. Use our Tax API to calculate tax on your checkout form:

curl https://sandbox-quadernoapp.com/api/tax_rates/calculate?to_country=US&to_postal_code=10128 \
  -u YOUR_API_KEY:x
  1. Once you get paid via your favorite payment processor, record your sale with our Transactions API.
curl --request POST \
  --url https://ACCOUNT_NAME.sandbox-quadernoapp.com/api/transactions
  --header 'Authorization: Basic ENCODED_API_KEY' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "type": "sale",
  "currency": "GBP",
  "customer": {
    "first_name": "Alex",
    "last_name": "Wick",
    "street_line_1": "67 Church Lane",
    "city": "London",
    "postal_code": "E94 7RT",
    "country": "GB"
  },
  "items": [
    {
      "description": "Simple Software",
      "amount": 9.90,
      "tax": {
        "country": "GB",
        "rate": 20.0,
        "tax_code": "eservice".
      }
    }
  ],
  "payment": {
    "method": "credit_card",
    "processor": "yourPaymentProcessorName",
    "processor_id": "yourPaymentProcessorId1234"
  },
  "evidence": {
    "billing_country": "GB",
    "ip_address": "255.255.255.255",
    "bank_country": "GB"
  },
  "processor": “yourPlatformName",
  "processor_id": "yourPlatformTransactionId"
}'
  1. Now a new invoice has been generated for your sale and your tax reports have been updated and are ready to download.

Check our Getting Started guide to learn more!

Features​

  • Accurate tax calculation on every sale, worldwide
  • Billing with automatic invoices and credit notes
  • Alerts for new tax obligations and registrations
  • Tax reports by country or state
  • Quaderno Checkout, if you don’t have your own checkout
  • Many native integrations, plus REST API

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