u/BalmyPalms

Holy bejeesus, it's impossible to communicate with someone at Stripe. So here I am.

I'm setting up an online business using a third party client portal, called ManyRequests. Their product has an out of the box integration with Stripe, and they serve up the Stripe checkout on my site.

My client base are larger institutional non-profits, like museums, universities, foundations, etc.

The third-party platform has a module in settings called "Tax" that lets me create tax rate entries. These have a tax rate field, and a region/state field. Presumably, these entries apply at checkout, relative to the client's zipcode field. Creating these tax entries is a manual process, but more importantly, doesn't help me track "nexus" outside of my physical location. So I don't currently use the module.

In my Stripe dash, I have my region set, which I thought automatically enrolls me in "Stripe Tax", which includes their lovely tax rate automation, and the tracking of nexus outside my location.

The problem:
In my test checkouts, no sales tax is getting applied.

My questions:

• Given my setup, which system should I be setting up tax rules/settings in? Or, why would Stripe tax not be working?
• If I use the third-party manual system, will Stripe Tax still monitor my nexus in other states?
• Many non-profits are tax exempt from sales tax (it does vary state to state). Does Stripe have any way of detecting an exempt status, and therefore not applying tax at checkout? Say, with a tax code of some sort?

Ok, please help, thanks!

EDIT: Just a quick thanks to everyone who chimed in!

TLDR: old, weirdly designed home only has coax, need help picturing how xfinity would be installed and used.

I'm wanting to add internet and "Live TV" service to a large old home in a rural area that historically relied on satellite service for TV (Dish Network), and janky microwave beaming for internet. Xfinity just became available, so the home gets to join the modern world, and possibly bundle both.

The home is wired with Coax and no ethernet (except for 1 line manually coming from the microwave dish on the roof, routed through hvac ducting....)

My understanding is Xfinity buried fiber in the neighborhood and its service is fiber-to-the-home. How does this work for Coax? I've read Xfinity's service/modem's are coax-based, so where does the "switch" happen?

Xfinity's fineprint also says only "one outlet" is installed. The home is unusually asymmetrical, meaning placement of the modem/wifi-router is crucial to getting an even signal everywhere. (Even with mesh/access point extenders.) Does the"one" install outlet need to be considered? Or, if the home is already networked with Coax, would any one work?

My guess is, anywhere there's a current outlet is a candidate for Xfinity's modem. We then hook up a wi-if router to it for "device" internet. Then, for tvs, some kind of coax-switch sends signal to all the coax outlets in the rest of the home. The home has 7 tvs.. would each tv need a "cable box" like in the 90s to watch separate feeds? Or, since it's all internet based, it also doesn't matter?

Sorry for the dumbness of the questions. Any help is appreciated.