Shopify Updates 12/16/2024 – 12/23/2024

 Commercial invoices will now include Tax IDs on Managed Markets orders.

Some countries, including Brazil, China, and South Korea, require customs authorities to include customer tax IDs on shipments. For orders to these countries fulfilled through Managed Markets, the tax IDs received at checkout will now be automatically added to commercial invoices. Going forward, Managed Markets will continue to add this functionality for any new countries that begin requiring tax IDs on commercial invoices.

Tax ID Required in Checkout for Shipments to Mexico.

From 1 January 2025, the Mexican government will require an RFC (Registro Federal de Contribuyentes) tax ID to be entered on orders under $2,500 shipped to Mexico. To ensure compliance with these regulations, Shopify has introduced a new ‘RFC’ field, which can be found under ‘Additional Information’ in the following areas:

• Checkout
• Orders and Draft Orders in admin

The RFC field must be populated with the customer’s RFC, CURP (Clave Única de Registro de Población), or their foreign tax identification number for orders shipping to Mexico.

Important: If checkout settings are enabled to collect tax IDs for Mexico, disable them to avoid duplicate fields and confusion at checkout.

 Direct customers back to the online store after login.

Direct customers back to the online store after a successful login using the new storefront_login_url route in the routes object. With this route, customers will be directed back to the page where the login occurred. You can also direct customers to a different online shop page using the /customer_authentication/login path with the return_to parameter.

 Charge Tax on Shipping Proportionally in Canada with Shopify.

Due to the Canadian tax holiday, Shopify has begun automatically zeroing out the cost of correctly categorized items on behalf of sellers. To simplify tax collection for sellers, Shopify now calculates shipping tax proportionally for orders with zero-rated items.

This means that orders with zero-rated and regular-rated items will be charged shipping tax at a blended rate, weighted by the number of items and tax rates in the order.

Only zero-rated or tax-exempt items will affect the delivery tax rate. This only applies to GST and you must use taxes based on registration.

From 17 December 2024, Shopify will automatically prorate tax on delivery orders that have zero-rated and non-zero-rated tax items. This does not apply to manually set tax rates: if your shop uses Legacy Tax or overrides, these changes will not apply and you’ll need to handle the taxes yourself.

What you need to do.

Check the product categories and make sure they are correct. Make sure no manual overrides are enabled for those categories and that you are not using Legacy Tax. That’s it! Shopify will automatically calculate tax holidays and prorated shipping taxation.

Tip: Use bulk editor to quickly review and update multiple products at once.

 Purolator labels are available through Shopify Shipping.

Shopify has added Purolator as a new carrier to Shopify Shipping. If you’re a seller with a location in Canada, you can now purchase domestic shipping labels from Purolator.

With more carriers, you’ll be able to ship your orders quickly and cost-effectively this holiday season and beyond.