Jurisdiction assets
Jurisdictions are geographical regions or zones representing a country or region, province or territory, or zip code range, to which you sell goods. Jurisdictions can be grouped together to form jurisdiction groups.
Jurisdiction groups are used in the calculation of the shipping charge and tax charges on orders. That is, a jurisdiction group can be used to qualify shipping charges and tax calculation rules used. These qualified calculation rules are applicable to items in an order only if the item is being shipped to an address within one of the jurisdictions in a jurisdiction group that is associated with the calculation rule. As a result, shipping charges and tax amounts may be calculated differently depending on the shipping addresses for the different items in the order.
The following diagram illustrates how jurisdictions and jurisdictions groups fit into the WebSphere Commerce Server.
In WebSphere Commerce a jurisdiction or jurisdiction group is part of a store, and is exclusive to the store or store group for which it is created. For example, if you create three jurisdictions for your store, and then delete your store, the jurisdictions are also deleted. They are not available for use by any other existing stores, or any stores you might create in the future.
However, if you create jurisdictions for a store group, jurisdictions are not deleted when the stores in that group are deleted. The jurisdictions would be available for new stores created in that store group.
WebSphere Commerce supports two types of jurisdictions: shipping jurisdictions and tax jurisdictions. Shipping jurisdictions can be grouped together to form shipping jurisdiction groups, which qualify shipping charge calculation rules. Similarly, tax jurisdictions can be grouped together to form tax jurisdiction groups, which qualify tax calculation rules.
- Store entity
- An abstract super class that can represent either a store or a store group.
- Jurisdiction group
- A group of jurisdictions within one geographical country, region, province, territory, or zip-code range. A jurisdiction group is part of a store, and can only belong to that store. If the store is deleted, so is the jurisdiction group.
- Jurisdiction
- A geographical region for tax or shipping purposes representing a country or region, province or territory, zip code range, or an application-specific geo-code. In WebSphere Commerce, a geo-code is an application-specific code representing a geographical region. A jurisdiction is part of a store, and can only belong to that store. If the store is deleted, so is the jurisdiction.
- Tax jurisdiction
- A geographical region for tax purposes. A tax jurisdiction belongs to a jurisdiction or jurisdiction group.
- Shipping jurisdiction
- A geographical region for shipping purposes. A shipping jurisdiction belongs to a jurisdiction or jurisdiction group.
- Tax jurisdiction group
- A group of tax jurisdictions within one geographical, country, region, province, territory, or zip-code range.
- Shipping jurisdiction group
- A group of shipping jurisdictions within one geographical, country, region, province, territory, or zip-code range.
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