public
POST /v1/public/pricing/tax-quote
What these net prices look like to a signed-out visitor, after VAT.
Authentication
This endpoint is public. It takes no credential and no organisation — it is what our own marketing site and AI answer engines read.
This endpoint takes no organisation id. Your key already identifies the organisation it belongs to, and the response is scoped to it.
Try it
Replace anything in angle brackets with your own values, and the key placeholder with a key from your dashboard.
curl -X POST https://api.zinndigital.com/v1/public/pricing/tax-quote \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "items": <object[]> }'Signed in? The API console in your dashboard fills in your real organisation id and your own key, and runs the request against the live API so you can see the actual response. Open this endpoint in the API console
Details
The anonymous half of `quoteTaxDisplay` (#1482). Same answer, one difference that matters: there is no organisation, so there is no validated VAT number and **every visitor is treated as a consumer**. ⛔ **This route accepts no buyer-validation flag, deliberately.** Reverse charge turns on a VIES-validated number and the seller carries the liability for granting it wrongly (`docs/34` §2.3), so a client-supplied validation claim would be a request to zero-rate a sale on the buyer's own say-so. Treating everyone as a consumer is also the safe direction: it over-states rather than under-states the tax due. Country comes from the request body or Cloudflare's `CF-IPCountry`. The answer is always `estimated: true` — a pricing page runs on a geo hint, and the charge is rated again at checkout against real place-of-supply evidence.
Request body
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
country | string | No | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 destination. On the signed-in route this overrides the stored billing country (the customer may be pricing an address they have not saved). Omitted on the pub… |
currency | string | No | ISO 4217. Defaults to the `docs/29` §3.1 resolution for the request. |
items | object[] | Yes | — |
Response
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
currency | string | Yes | — |
country | string | Yes | The destination the figures were rated for, or `""` if none was known. |
display_mode | string<gross, net> | Yes | Which figure leads. `gross` for a consumer (with the VAT shown separately), `net` for a validated business and for any supply carrying no VAT. ⛔ Read it; do not re-derive it — t… |
notice | string<vat_included, reverse_charge, no_vat, vat_at_checkout> | Yes | A **key**, never rendered prose — every user-facing string goes through the frontend i18n layer in all 58 locales (§2.7, §2.19), so a wording change is a translation change rath… |
rate_bps | integer | Yes | The single rate behind `notice`, or `0` where the basket carries more than one. A mixed basket (hosting at the buyer's rate, a website build at UK 20%) genuinely has no single r… |
estimated | boolean | Yes | The figures ran on weak evidence (a geo hint, no billing address) and are indicative. The charge is rated again at checkout against full place-of-supply evidence, and **that** i… |
indeterminate | boolean | Yes | The supply could not be rated and the **net** figure is being shown with `notice: vat_at_checkout`. Never true alongside a non-zero `tax_total_minor`. |
net_total_minor | integer | Yes | — |
tax_total_minor | integer | Yes | — |
gross_total_minor | integer | Yes | ⛔ Equal to net in the `indeterminate` fallback, **never 0** — a caller rendering this field unconditionally must show the price rather than a free product. |
lines | object[] | Yes | — |
Errors this endpoint can return
422 · 429