Welcome to our base documentation area for our popular TaxCloud_® sales tax API.

Here you can find detailed (though starkly computer-generated) information about our industry-leading sales tax API. For additional (human-generated) documentation, please visit our TaxCloud documentation area. For example implementations (in PHP, C#, JAVA, and more), please visit our GitHub Repository. Finally, if you have any questions, please visit our support center, or send us an email.

The following operations are supported. For a formal definition, please review the Service Description.

• AddExemptCertificate
  Save an Entity Exemption Certificate
• AddTransactions
  Add a batch of transactions from offline sources.
• Authorized
  Mark a previous Lookup as Authorized - do this AFTER authorizing with payment processor.
• AuthorizedWithCapture
  Mark a previous Lookup as Authorized and Captured - do this AFTER capturing payment with payment processor.
• AuthorizedWithCaptureMultiAddress
  Mark a previous Lookup as Authorized and Captured - do this AFTER capturing payment with payment processor.
• Captured
  Mark a previous Lookup as Captured - do this AFTER calling Authorized API and after capturing payment with payment processor.
• CreatePlatformAccount
  Provision a new TaxCloud Account [Additional License Required]
• DeleteExemptCertificate
  Remove an Entity Exemption Certificate
• GetExemptCertificates
  Get previously saved Entity Exemption Certificates for a given customerID
• GetLocations
  Retrieve your Locations (addresses) saved in TaxCloud.
• GetTICGroups
  Retrieve TIC Groups
• GetTICs
  Get all TICs
• GetTICsByGroup
  Get TICs in a group.
• Health
  Instance status check
• Lookup
  Determine applicable sales or use tax for items being purchased.
• LookupEx
  Determine applicable sales or use tax for items being purchased.
• LookupForDate
  Perform a Lookup for a specific date.
• LookupForDateEx
  Perform a Lookup for a specific date.
• LookupForDateMultiAddress
  Perform a Lookup for a specific date.
• LookupForDateWithRate
  Perform a Lookup for a specific date.
• LookupMultiAddress
  Determine applicable sales or use tax for items being purchased.
• LookupWithRate
  Determine applicable sales or use tax for items being purchased.
• MerchantUSStateInformation
  Returns a list of states with information about whether this account is collecting tax in that state or not
• OrderDetails
  Review Jurisdiction Details for a Captured Order
• Ping
  Hello world? Is your implementation communicating with TaxCloud using a valid API ID and API Key?
• Returned
  Return a previously Captured transaction. Supports entire order returns as well as individual item returns and even partial item-level returns.
• ReturnedCreditMemo
  Return a previously Captured transaction. Supports entire order returns as well as individual item returns and even partial item-level returns.
• ReturnedMultiAddress
  Return a previously Captured transaction. Supports entire order returns as well as individual item returns and even partial item-level returns.
• ReturnedPro
  Return or adjust a previously Captured transaction. [Additional License Required]
• TICSpecialHandlingByDate
  Returns the TICs that have special handling for a particular state and date
• TICSpecialHandlingByDateForList
  Returns the TICs that have special handling for a particular state and date
• VerifyAddress
  Verify an address. Note: No longer requires valid USPS ID - Use '000CLOUD0000' as the uspsUserID.