We are having an issue with taxes and the Table Shipping rates plugin. Our store is located in Canada. Under Canadian law, we have to apply tax to the products we sell within Canada and those taxes will vary from province to province. However, the tax we are charged on shipping (no matter where in the world we ship) is a constant percentage. It would be useful in a future version of the plugin to be able to set an optional tax rate for each shipping zone.

I will provide 3 examples to clearly outline the issue we are experiencing:

(1) An order shipping to Nova Scotia, Canada will have a tax rate of 15% assigned to the item total (unless it falls under a reduced tax rate). We have the tax in wooCommerce for Nova Scotia set as 15% and those item taxes are calculated properly. We have the "Tax Status" field in the Canadian shipping zone set to "Taxable" and the shipping tax is properly calculated (at 15%).

(2) An order shipping to Alberta, Canada will have a tax rate of 5% assigned to the item total. We have the tax in wooCommerce for Alberta set as 5% and the item taxes are calculated properly. However, the shipping taxes within the table shipping plugin are calculated at 5%. Because we are shipping from a Nova Scotia location, the post office applies a 15% tax rate to shipping. Not enough tax is getting charged here.

(3) An order shipping to a location outside Canada are tax-exempt for the items. We have the taxes in the United States and Default zones set to 0. Despite the "Taxable" tax status in the plugin being on, there is no shipping tax calculated because of the wooCommerce plugin. However, when we ship from the post office, a tax rate of 15% is applied to the shipment.

I have suggested that we add 15% to all our shipping charges and set the tax status to None, but then it complicates our tax filing calculations as the taxes are not broken out.

It would be useful to have an optional tax rate field within each shipping zone to override the woocommerce tax settings.

Some of my prices are complex, as in they are calculated using:

[base-fee] + quantity*per-item-fee

I've only been able to create proper pricing by using some hacky GF implementation (adding a second hidden product with the base fee), but it seems like I can't be the only one to calculate a product like this.

I've looked into table pricing plugins, but for that I have to actually calculate every product's cost at every quantity and then upload a CSV file for every product, and then do it all over again if I want to change a price.

Seems like it's a simple enough calculation that can be done on the front end with javascript.

First: It’s great that there are lots of filter hooks throughout this extension (way more than are listed in the documentation). We’re able to use them to tweak functionality in ways that are really specific to our use case.

One great one is the ‘woocommercebookinggetavailabilityrules’, which lets us programatically change a product’s availability on its booking form page based on certain criteria. But we can’t change the earliest and latest available times, which are stored in separate variables (mindate and maxdate) from the availability rules array.

I get why this happens: these are calculated on the fly every time a product is viewed, whereas the “rules” only need to be recalculated when the product or resource is changed in the back end.

But conceptually, the min and max start dates are part of the availability rules, and it doesn’t really make sense to be able to filter all the rules except these. Please add a filter for each/both of these! If anyone at Woo wants more details about how I’m trying to use this, feel free to email me.

Woocommerce should not be a plugin anymore, instead, it should be as magento, prestashop, open cart, etc. So, if you want to build a blog, or website, you can use WordPress.
If you want to build a complete ecommerce, you can download woocommerce's source code right away from the official website.
i guess this is important, so, Woocommerce developers can work only focused in woocommerce,and a brand-new platform, totally independent, will lower the disk space.
so... woocommerce should be a ecommerce CMS, not a simple plugin
with this strategy, we can manage our stores directly from a dedicated platform, and we can forget about a lot of plugins that only stress up the database.
with this new system we can manage clients, orders, coupons, and more functions, as shopify, and also sell apple pay gift cards ffor use in our stores, and also add more functions dedicating a diferent team, not the same one of wordpress...
it should be written from the scratch i guess.
i hope that everybody agrees with my