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HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
Operating
Topics in the Operating category highlight tasks that are typically performed by business users, customer support representatives, to complete their day-to-day tasks in the operation of the HCL Commerce site.
HCL Commerce Accelerator
Use the HCL Commerce Accelerator to maintain online stores.
Managing the store
The Seller sets up store-level functions within the site. The Seller can access all menu items under the Store menu.
Setting up taxes
You can set up taxes at a store-level by using the HCL Commerce Accelerator.

Documentation
HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
- Getting started
  HCL Commerce has different advantages for business users, administrators and developers. HCL Commerce targets each of these roles with a tailored set of offerings so that each of your users can get maximum benefit.
- Installing and deploying
  Learn how to install and deploy HCL Commerce development environments and HCL Commerce production environments.
- Migrating
  Before you migrate to HCL Commerce Version 9.1, review this information to help plan and execute your migration.
- Operating
  Topics in the Operating category highlight tasks that are typically performed by business users, customer support representatives, to complete their day-to-day tasks in the operation of the HCL Commerce site.
  - Management Center for HCL Commerce
    The Management Center for HCL Commerce, is a suite of tools to support store management, merchandising, and marketing tasks for business users (Sellers, Marketing Managers, Product Managers, Catalog Managers, Buyer Administrator, Customer Service Supervisor and others).
  - HCL Commerce Accelerator
    Use the HCL Commerce Accelerator to maintain online stores.
    - HCL Commerce Accelerator user interface
      The HCL Commerce Accelerator interface consists of several notebooks, wizards, dialogs, and lists to help you complete your tasks.
    - Opening HCL Commerce Accelerator
      Use HCL Commerce Accelerator to maintain online stores by completing various store operations such as creating and maintaining orders and tracking store activities.
    - Changing an HCL Commerce password
      If you have the appropriate authority, you can change the HCL Commerce logon password for an HCL Commerce user or for yourself from any of these tools.
    - Managing the store
      The Seller sets up store-level functions within the site. The Seller can access all menu items under the Store menu.
      - Managing shipping
        You can set up shipping at a store-level by using HCL Commerce Accelerator.
      - Setting up taxes
        You can set up taxes at a store-level by using the HCL Commerce Accelerator.
        Defining tax jurisdictions
        A tax jurisdiction is a geographical region to which you deliver goods. If, when you initially created your store, you based it on one of the starter store archives, default tax jurisdictions are set up for you.
        Defining tax categories
        Each type of tax that is used in your store (for example, state, provincial, or federal) must have its own category.
        Defining tax category display name
        After you define your tax categories, you must define the name for each category. If your store is displayed in more than one language, you might need to define a display name for each tax category in each language. For example, in English a tax category might have one name, while in another language, the same tax might have another name.
        Defining sales tax codes
        A sales tax is applied to the total cost of your order. A sales tax code is a name for a grouping of sales taxes that is applied to the same products. For example, all sales taxes applicable to groceries could be grouped under a single tax code called groceries. Then, you could assign the groceries tax code to each grocery product.
        Defining shipping tax codes
        A shipping tax code is a name for a grouping of shipping taxes that is applied to the same products. For example, all taxes applicable to shipping to a certain region could be grouped under a single tax code called Regional shipping tax. Then, you could assign the Regional shipping tax code to each product that is shipped to that region.
        Assigning categories to codes
        Assign tax categories to a code.
        Defining tax rates
        The HCL Commerce Accelerator configures tax rates through the Tax notebook.
        Taxes
        A functional store must include data on taxes. Taxation involves charging and collecting taxes on the goods and services that are sold by the store. The combination of tax categories, calculation codes, jurisdiction, and jurisdiction groups create the tax charges for the store.
        Example tax calculations
        Use the Tax notebook to calculate the tax that you charge.
      - Inventory adjustments
        Inventory adjustments are made when the amount of inventory in the fulfillment center is not the same as the amount of inventory that is recorded in the system. You can also add, change, or delete inventory adjustment codes.
      - Fulfillment
        Fulfillment is inventory activity that happens in a fulfillment center or warehouse, including picking, packing, and shipping. Picking is the selection of products in one or more releases from a fulfillment center, packing is putting these products into shipping containers, and shipping is sending them to customers. A number of people work in a fulfillment center at one time, each with a different task or tasks to perform. The HCL Commerce Accelerator divides the most common tasks into roles, and these roles are assigned to users.
      - Return reasons
        A store defines its own reasons for returning a product. Return reasons are based on the perspective of either the customer or the merchant.
      - Negotiated pricing
        Customer service representatives (CSRs) can negotiate product prices with customers, if necessary, to complete a transaction. CSRs override product prices by specifying the price agreed upon by both the customer and the CSR.
      - Approving requests and submissions
        Submitters and administrators with the appropriate access can view approval requests and verify the status of their associated approval decisions. When an approvable action enters the approval process, the submitter sees it as an approval submission or submission in the user interface. The approver responsible for approving the action sees it referred to as an approval request or request in the user interface.
      - Resending order notifications
        After a customer places an order, an order notification can be automatically e-mailed to the customer or an administrator.
      - Configuring email notification for a store
        New message types cannot be added to the system nor existing ones deleted. Instead, you can configure a predefined set of message types that use the email transport.
      - Sending a broadcast e-mail to stores
        The Site Administrator can send a broadcast e-mail to a certain category of stores, such as all open stores, or all closed stores.
    - Order management
      A typical order includes one or more products, billing and shipping addresses, payment details, and the total cost (including shipping charges and taxes, as applicable). Comments or price adjustments can also be included in an order.
    - Business relationship management
      To customize what a customer can do in a store use the business relationship management system. By using this system, you can entitle customers to various aspects of a store such as what products they can purchase, the price they pay, and what payment methods a store accepts.
  - HCL Customer Service for HCL Commerce JSP stores
    HCL Customer Service for HCL Commerce provides customer service enhancements that enable a customer service representative (CSR) to resolve common issues and capture orders. These capabilities are built into the HCL Commerce Aurora storefront and enable a CSR to complete key tasks on behalf of a guest and registered customers for both B2B and B2C stores. Customer Service for HCL Commerce is offered for Enterprise edition.
  - HCL Customer Service Hub for HCL Commerce React stores
    HCL Customer Service Hub for HCL Commerce provides customer service enhancements that enable a customer service representative (CSR) to resolve common issues and capture orders. These capabilities are built into the HCL Commerce Reference Store application and enable a CSR to complete key tasks on behalf of guest and registered customers for headless stores that are built based on the Emerald and Sapphire reference stores. Customer Service Hub for HCL Commerce is offered for Enterprise edition.
- Integrating
  Topics in the Integrating category highlight the tasks that are commonly performed for using HCL Commerce in combination with other products.
- Administering
  Topics in the Administering category highlight tasks that are typically performed by the Site Administrator, to support daily operations of the HCL Commerce site.
- Customizing
  The topics in the Customizing section describe tasks performed by an application developer to customize HCL Commerce.
- Tutorials
  HCL Commerce provides many tutorials to help you customize and understand your HCL Commerce instance and stores.
- Samples
  Topics in the Samples category highlight the various samples that are provided with HCL Commerce.
- Compliance
  The following section describes how you can leverage HCL Commerce features and functionality to help your site be compliant with different privacy and security standards.
- Securing
  These topics describe the security features of HCL Commerce and how to configure these features.
- Performance
  Topics in the Performance section describe the means by which to plan, implement, test, and re-visit the optimization of HCL Commerce site performance.
- Troubleshooting
  Topics in the Troubleshooting section highlight common issues that are encountered with HCL Commerce, and how they can be addressed or mitigated.
- Reference
  Topics in the Reference section contain all of the HCL Commerce reference documentation.

Setting up taxes

You can set up taxes at a store-level by using the HCL Commerce Accelerator.

Before you begin

Review the following concepts and examples:

Note: From HCL Commerce version 9.1.2.0 onwards, you can define Taxes and related settings from Accelerator as well as Management Center. However, Management Center is recommended.