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NAME

Business::Tax::Avalara - An interface to Avalara's REST webservice

SYNOPSYS

use Business::Tax::Avalara;
my $avalara_gateway = Business::Tax::Avalara->new(
	customer_code  => $customer_code,
	company_code   => $company_code,
	user_name      => $user_name,
	password       => $password,
	origin_address =>
	{
		line_1      => '1313 Mockingbird Lane',
		postal_code => '98765',
	},
);

my $tax_results = $avalara_gateway->get_tax(
	destination_address =>
	{
		line_1      => '42 Evergreen Terrace',
		city        => 'Springfield',
		postal_code => '12345',
	},
	cart_lines =>
	[
		{
			sku      => '42ACE',
			quantity => 1,
			amount   => '8.99',
		},
		{
			sku      => '9FCE2',
			quantity => 2,
			amount   => '38.98',
		}
	],
	
);

DESCRIPTION

Business::Tax::Avalara is a simple interface to Avalara's REST-based sales tax webservice. It takes in a perl hash of data to send to Avalara, generates the JSON, fetches a response, and converts that back into a perl hash structure.

This module only supports the 'get_tax' method at the moment.

VERSION

Version 1.0.3

FUNCTIONS

new()

Creates a new Business::Tax::Avalara object with various options that do not change between requests.

my $avalara_gateway = Business::Tax::Avalara->new(
	customer_code   => $customer_code,
	company_code    => $company_code,
	user_name       => $user_name
	pasword         => $password,
	is_development  => boolean (optional), default 0
	origin_address  => $origin_address (optional),
	memcached       => A Cache::Memcached or Cache::Memcached::Fast object.
	request_timeout => Request timeout in seconds. Default is 3.
);

The fields customer_code, company_code, user_name, and password should be provided by your Avalara representative. Account number and License key are synonyms for user_name and password, respectively.

is_development should be set to 1 to use the development URL, and 0 for production uses.

origin_address can either be set here, or passed into get_tax, depending on if it changes per request, or if you're always shipping from the same location. It is a hash ref, see below for formatting details.

If a memcached object is passed in, we can use this so that we don't send the same request over in a certain period of time. This combines below with 'cache_timespan' and 'unique_key' in the get_tax() call.

Returns a Business::Tax::Avalara object.

get_tax()

Makes a JSON request using the 'get_tax' method, parses the response, and returns a perl hash.

my $tax_results = $avalara_gateway->get_tax(
	destination_address   => $address_hash,
	origin_address        => $address_hash (may be specified in new),
	document_date         => $date (optional), default is current date
	cart_lines            => $cart_line_hash,
	customer_usage_type   => $customer_usage_type (optional),
	discount              => $order_level_discount (optional),
	purchase_order_number => $purchase_order_number (optional),
	exemption_number      => $exemption_number (optional),
	detail_level          => $detail_level (optional), default 'Tax',
	document_type         => $document_type (optional), default 'SalesOrder'
	payment_date          => $date (optional),
	reference_code        => $reference_code (optional),
	commit                => 1|0, # Default 0, whether this is a 'final' query.
	unique_key            => A unique key for memcache (optional, see below)
	cache_timespan        => The number of seconds to cache results (see below)
);

See below for the definitions of address and cart_line fields. The field origin_address may be specified here if it changes between transactions, or in new if it's largely static.

detail level is one of 'Tax', 'Summary', 'Document', 'Line', or 'Diagnostic'. See the Avalara documentation for the distinctions.

document_type is one of 'SalesOrder', 'SalesInvoice', 'PurchaseOrder', 'PurchaseInvoice', 'ReturnOrder', and 'ReturnInvoice'.

If cache_timespan is set and you passed a memcached object into new(), it will attempt to cache the result based on the unique key passed in.

Returns a perl hashref based on the Avalara return. See the Avalara documentation for the full description of the output, but the highlights are:

{
	ResultCode     => 'Success',
	TaxAddresses   => [ array of address information ],
	TaxDate        => Date,
	TaxLines       =>
	{
		LineNumber => # The value of the line number
		{
			Discount      => Discount,
			LineNo        => Line Number passed in,
			Rate          => Tax rate used,
			Tax           => Line item tax
			Taxability    => "true" or "false",
			Taxable       => Amount taxable,
			TaxCalculated => Line item tax
			TaxCode       => Tax Code used in the calculation
			Tax Details   => Details about state, county, city components of the tax
			
		},
		...
	},
	Timestamp      => Timestamp,
	TotalAmount    => Total amount before tax
	TotalDiscount  => Total Discount
	TotalExemption => Total amount exempt
	TotalTax       => Tax for the whole order
	TotalTaxable   => Amount that's taxable
}

INTERNAL FUNCTIONS

_generate_request_json()

Generates the json to send to Avalara's web service.

Returns a JSON object.

_generate_address_json()

Given an address hashref, generates and returns a data structure to be converted to JSON.

An address hashref is defined as:

my $address = {
	line_1        => $first_line_of_address,
	line_2        => $second_line_of_address,
	line_3        => $third_line_of_address,
	city          => $city,
	region        => $state_or_province,
	country       => $iso_2_code,
	postal_code   => $postal_or_ZIP_code,
	latitude      => $latitude,
	longitude     => $longitude,
	tax_region_id => $tax_region_id,
};

All fields are optional, though without enough to identify an address, your results will be less than satisfying.

Country coes are ISO 3166-1 (alpha 2) format, such as 'US'.

_generate_cart_line_json()

Generates a data structure from a cart_line hashref. Cart lines are:

my $cart_line = {
	'line_number'         => $number (optional, will be generated if omitted.),
	'item_code'           => $item_code
	'sku'                 => $sku, # Use sku OR item_code
	'tax_code'            => $tax_code,
	'customer_usage_type' => $customer_usage_code
	'description'         => $description,
	'quantity'            => $quantity,
	'amount'              => $amount, # Extended price, ie, price * quantity
	'discounted'          => $is_included_in_discount, # Boolean (True or False)
	'tax_included'        => $is_tax_included, # Boolean (True or False)
	'ref_1'               => $reference_1,
	'ref_2'               => $reference_2,
}

One of item_code or sku, quantity, and amount are required fields.

Customer usage type determines the type of item (sometimes called entity or use code). In some states, different types of items have different tax rates.

_make_request_json()

Makes the https request to Avalara, and returns the response json.

_parse_response_json()

Converts the returned JSON into a perl hash.

get_memcache()

Return the database handle tied to the audit object.

my $memcache = $avalara_gateway->get_memcache();

get_cache()

Get a value from the cache.

my $value = $avalara_gateway->get_cache( key => $key );

set_cache()

Set a value into the cache.

$avalara_gateway->set_cache(
	key         => $key,
	value       => $value,
	expire_time => $expire_time,
);

AUTHOR

Kate Kirby, <kate at cpan.org>.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-business-tax-avalara at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Business-Tax-Avalara. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Business::Tax::Avalara

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to ThinkGeek (http://www.thinkgeek.com/) and its corporate overlords at Geeknet (http://www.geek.net/), for footing the bill while we eat pizza and write code for them!

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2012 Kate Kirby.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; withnode even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/