As a Squarespace seller, dealing with sales tax compliance can be a huge headache, more so if you sell to customers in more than one state. This is because regulations change from location to location and are quite difficult to manage by yourself. 

 

That’s where TaxJar steps in: it is one of the leading sales tax automation tools. The tool integrates with your Squarespace store to automate the calculation and filing of sales tax, saving your time, preventing costly errors, and keeping you compliant with the most recent demands on taxes. 

 

With all these advantages, you might want to know whether it comes for free or payable. If that’s so, read to the end as we detail more on Taxjar and Squarespace. 

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Understanding TaxJar and Squarespace Basics

Prior to understanding the pricing, let’s understand the very basics of both platforms and how they actually work together. 

 

Squarespace is an excellent website platform that comes with advanced e-commerce functionality. It allows you to create an awesome online store, manage your products, process your payments, and count the orders. 

 

Within it, you’ll find basic tax settings; however, these are almost always inadequate for businesses that need to handle taxes across several regions, particularly as they grow and scale.

 

In contrast, TaxJar is a comprehensive automation package for sales tax. It is designed to eliminate the headaches of maintaining sales tax compliance thanks to its automatic sales tax calculation ,tax reports generation and filing in multiple jurisdictions. 

 

All these capabilities help to eliminate manual errors, and make sure that tax compliance is up to date.

 

TaxJar Pricing Structure with Squarespace

Now that you understand what Taxjar and Squarespace are, let’s find out the cost involved with them. 

 

Standard TaxJar Pricing

 

• Basic Plan: At $19 a month, if the business has up to 200 transactions in a month, you get basic tax calculation and reporting.

 

• Professional Plan: Roughly at $99 a month, it is a far more advanced feature for larger businesses that may use advanced reporting.

 

• AutoFile Add-On: With this add-on, one automates sales tax return filings with pricing at $25 per state per filing. This works very well if you operate in many states across the country.

 

Squarespace-Specific Considerations

Depending on your Squarespace subscription, you can access different Taxjar pricing. Let’s see how. 

 

• Partner Professional Plan: FREE with Commerce Basic or Advanced plan in Squarespace; only calculates tax, no reporting.

 

• Professional Plan: Adds reporting and compliance for Business, Commerce Basic, or Advanced users; similar in price as TaxJar’s standard Professional plan.

 

• Starter Plan: Includes reporting/compliance but relies on using Squarespace-built tax calculations.

 

Integration Benefits and Features

Squarespace integration with TaxJar presents quite a number of considerable benefits to any ecommerce business. These include:

 

• Automated Sales Tax Calculations: This integration allows calculating sales tax automatically, depending on the location of a buyer. It saves time for a business and minimizes various errors that might occur from manual entry of taxes.

 

• Detailed Tax Reporting: TaxJar creates detailed reports by jurisdiction helping businesses keep a closer eye on what they owe. It allows users an easier review of the tax reports and makes compliance simpler.

 

• Automated Filing: The businesses in states that TaxJar supports can even file sales tax returns through AutoFile. In particular, it is a good option for companies operating across state borders with different deadlines.

 

• Nexus Tracking: TaxJar helps businesses determine if they have “nexus” in a state. That’s whether they’re meeting the requirement to collect sales tax based on business activities in that state. This tracking feature notifies users when events that trigger tax collection in specific locations occur.

 

• Real-time compliance updates: Sales tax rates and rules change frequently, and TaxJar provides immediate, automatic updates of its rates and rules to ensure that Squarespace users are always charging the right amount and are current with regulations.

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Cost Comparison Analysis

Below is a table comparing Taxjar standard costs with Squarespace-specific options. 

Features	Taxjar standard basic	Taxjar Standard Professional	Squarespace Partner Professional	Squarespace Professional	Squarespace Starter
Monthly	$19	$99	Free with commercial basic/advanced	$99	Variable (Squarespace pricing only)
Tax calculations	✓	✓	✓	✓	Limited (via Squarespace settings)
Reporting	Basic	Advanced	Not included	✓	✓
Autofill	Add -on ($25/state)	Add -on ($25/state)	Not included	Add -on ($25/state)	Not included
Nexus	✓	✓	Not included	✓	Not included

 

Conclusion

Now you know the costs, integrations, and benefits of using TaxJar with Squarespace in a nutshell. If you’ve struggled to balance sales tax compliance, this is quite an offering that will help you simplify your tax processes and keep your business compliant with a lot of ease. Embrace it to save time and avoid errors while focusing on the growth of your business.