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# Tax-Exclusive Pricing with Toast

> Set up your Toast menu so prices are shown before tax and sales tax is added at checkout, with Toast's tax rates imported into storekit.

With tax-exclusive pricing, your online menu shows prices before tax and the tax is added at checkout, as US sales tax works. When your store uses Toast, you set up your taxes in Toast and storekit imports them with your menu.

## Step 1: Set Up Your Tax Rates in Toast

In the Toast back office (Toast Web), go to **Menus** → **Settings** → **Manage tax rates** and create a rate for each tax you charge, for example your state, city and district rates.

Use the **Percent** type. storekit imports **Percent** rates only: **Fixed** and **Tax Table** rates are not imported.

## Step 2: Set Your Menu to Tax Not Included

In the Toast back office (Toast Web), go to **Menus** → **Bulk management** → **Advanced properties**. Open the **Show/Hide** list, select **Tax Inclusion Option**, and set your menu to **Tax Not Included**. Menu groups and items inherit it unless you change them.

* Use **Tax Not Included** for the whole menu. Don't mix it with **Tax Included** in the same menu.
* Don't use **Smart Tax**. storekit can't follow a price that includes tax in one area of the restaurant and not in another.

## Step 3: Check Prices in storekit

Go to **Stores** → your store → **Settings** → **Taxes** and check that **Prices** is **Tax is added at checkout**. A new US store already starts with it. If you change it, click **Save**.

## Step 4: Sync Your Menu

Go to **Stores** → your store → **Settings** → **Integrations** → **Toast POS** and click **Sync Menu**. See [Toast Menu Sync](/docs/guides/integrations/pos/toast/menu-sync).

The sync brings your Toast tax rates onto the **Taxes** page and gives each item the tax it has in Toast. Each imported tax is marked **Imported from Toast. The next menu import replaces changes made here.** Make tax changes in Toast, then sync again.

## What Happens on Each Order

1. The customer sees prices before tax, and the tax is added as its own line at checkout.
2. storekit sends the order to Toast with the prices before tax.
3. Toast works out the tax on the check with the same rates and prints the receipt. storekit doesn't send its tax to Toast, because Toast doesn't accept tax figures from other systems.

If Toast's tax on a check differs from what the customer paid, the order is still sent. Sync your menu so both sides use the same rates, and correct the check in Toast if needed. See [Taxes and Your POS](/docs/guides/taxes/pos).


## Related topics

- [Taxes and Your POS](/docs/guides/taxes/pos.md)
- [Set Up Tax-Exclusive Pricing](/docs/guides/taxes/tax-exclusive-pricing.md)
- [Tax Defaults for New Stores](/docs/guides/taxes/new-store-defaults.md)
- [How Taxes Work](/docs/guides/taxes/overview.md)
- [POS Menu Sync](/docs/guides/menu/pos-menu-sync.md)


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