{"id":828,"date":"2017-08-17T13:47:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T13:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/?p=828"},"modified":"2026-05-28T19:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:33:23","slug":"how-do-i-tax-menu-items-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/how-do-i-tax-menu-items-differently\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I tax menu items differently?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenMenu Ordering gives you full control over how menu items are taxed.\u00a0 Multiple tax blocks can be created and applied to your menu.\u00a0 We simplify the process by letting you define a single, default tax block, which is automatically applied to all menu items.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Access the <strong>Taxes <\/strong>via the<strong> main dashboard<\/strong> for OpenMenu Ordering<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-846 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/access_tax_manager.jpg\" alt=\"Ordering Tax Manager\" width=\"675\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/access_tax_manager.jpg 675w, https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/access_tax_manager-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/access_tax_manager-60x28.jpg 60w, https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/access_tax_manager-150x70.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. You will now see the <strong>Tax Manager<\/strong>.\u00a0 To add a new tax click the <strong>Add New<\/strong> button located above the taxes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-847 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/tax_manager.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/tax_manager.jpg 675w, https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/tax_manager-300x48.jpg 300w, https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/tax_manager-60x10.jpg 60w, https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/tax_manager-150x24.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>note:<\/strong> the default tax is highlight by a blue &#8220;default&#8221; label.\u00a0 This tax will be automatically applied to all menu items.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>3. Enter a <strong>tax name<\/strong>, the <strong>tax rate<\/strong> and if you want this to become the default tax.\u00a0 <strong>Press Save<\/strong> and you&#8217;re done.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-849 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/add_new_tax_rate.jpg\" alt=\"Tax Dialog\" width=\"675\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/add_new_tax_rate.jpg 675w, https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/add_new_tax_rate-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/add_new_tax_rate-60x33.jpg 60w, https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/add_new_tax_rate-150x83.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 Default taxes are automatically applied to all menu items with no explicitly defined tax.\u00a0 If you need to override the tax for any menu item just <strong>edit the menu item<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-554 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/edit-menu-item.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/edit-menu-item.jpg 600w, https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/edit-menu-item-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/edit-menu-item-60x22.jpg 60w, https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/edit-menu-item-150x55.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select a <strong>new tax rate<\/strong> and press <strong>Save<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-850 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/update_item_tax.jpg\" alt=\"Menu Item Tax\" width=\"675\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/update_item_tax.jpg 675w, https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/update_item_tax-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/update_item_tax-60x28.jpg 60w, https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/update_item_tax-150x70.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenMenu Ordering gives you full control over how menu items are taxed.\u00a0 Multiple tax blocks can be created and applied to your menu.\u00a0 We simplify the process by letting you define a single, default tax block, which is automatically applied to all menu items. Steps: 1. Access the Taxes via the main dashboard for OpenMenu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-account_settings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openmenu.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}