VAT and currencies (for EU)

I love the idea of Jumpstart. However to be able to sell to EU customers, I need to calculate the VAT on the price depending on the customer's location. There are also precise laws on how an invoice must look like. Is Jumpstart ready for selling to EU customers or is it restricted to the US?

Hi Matthias, I am dealing with the exact same problem.
Jumpstart supports Stripe and Braintree (Paypal) which are only responsible for payments. But handling taxes is even more complicated than just calculating the correct tax and creating a legally compliant invoice:

https://stefanbauer.me/articles/the-hell-of-taxes-when-building-a-saas-in-europe

For that reason I also intent to use Paddle as payment provider. I created a pull request for the pay gem (which is used by Jumpstart) to support Paddle.

Awesome! Thanks for that PR. Looking forward to it. That was the big obstacle keeping me from using Jumpstart.

I'm hoping to merge that PR shortly for Paddle. Moving out of my old house and trying to sell it has made for a busy month!

Hi, any news on this  Nicolas Metzger or  Chris Oliver  ? I am keen to use paddle with jumpstart as it looks like it might solve the local sales tax problem?

Yeah, that would be really great to be able to use it with JSP!

looks like its integrated into pay now. I wonder how  Chris Oliver  feels about integrating it into JSP admin so it can be easily setup? I think the whole 'paying the right tax' thing is a major pain point for saas startups, at least across the EU. [its the major thing im trying to resolve before launching anything paid for].

Any new updates on this?

Paddle integration is almost done. Status: https://gitlab.com/gorails/jumpstart-pro/-/merge_requests/75

Wow  Nicolas Metzger 🔥 That's great!

Going down this road myself to avoid Sales Tax headaches, will really appreciate this feature being merged.

Excited to see how this turns out! Sales tax in the US is a huge pain as well, I'm in the process of trying to implement this with Stripe and the Zip-Tax API (based on the zip-code stored on the Account at creation).

I got this going (with the help of another dev) using the Zip-Tax API and by collecting a Zip Code for each account, which is what the sales tax is based on. It doesn't handle VAT as of now, but it seems to be working for US sales tax.