Quaderno Taxes API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Quaderno Authentication Taxes API
  description: 'The Quaderno API is a REST API for tax compliance, invoicing, and sales tax / VAT automation. It exposes resources with predictable, account-scoped URLs and uses standard HTTP features - HTTP Basic Authentication, standard methods, and response codes. All requests and responses are JSON, and every endpoint path ends in `.json` to indicate JSON serialization.

    The base URL is account-scoped: `https://ACCOUNT_NAME.quadernoapp.com/api`, where `ACCOUNT_NAME` is your Quaderno account subdomain. Authenticate with your private API key as the HTTP Basic Auth username (any value for the password). Sandbox testing is available on a separate sandbox host.

    Core resources include Contacts, Items, Invoices, Credits, Estimates, Expenses, Recurring documents, Payments, Transactions, Checkout Sessions, Webhooks, and the tax engine (tax rate calculation, tax jurisdictions, tax codes, and tax ID validation). Endpoint paths and the account-scoped base URL are confirmed against Quaderno''s public developer documentation and the official quaderno-ruby SDK; request and response bodies are modeled and should be verified against the live API reference.'
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Quaderno
    url: https://developers.quaderno.io
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: https://quaderno.io/terms/
servers:
- url: https://{account}.quadernoapp.com/api
  description: Production (account-scoped)
  variables:
    account:
      default: ACCOUNT_NAME
      description: Your Quaderno account subdomain.
security:
- basicAuth: []
tags:
- name: Taxes
  description: Real-time tax rate calculation, jurisdictions, tax codes, and tax ID validation.
paths:
  /tax_rates/calculate.json:
    get:
      operationId: calculateTaxRate
      tags:
      - Taxes
      summary: Calculate a tax rate
      description: Calculates the applicable tax rate for a sale given the customer's country, region, postal code, tax ID, and optional product tax code. The response includes the rate, the tax name, and a status code explaining the reasoning (for example taxable, non_taxable, or not_registered).
      parameters:
      - name: country
        in: query
        required: true
        description: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code of the customer.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: postal_code
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Customer postal / ZIP code.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: region
        in: query
        required: false
        description: State or region code (required for US sales tax).
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: tax_id
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Customer tax ID / VAT number, when applicable for reverse charge.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: tax_code
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Product tax code identifying the taxability of the item.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: amount
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Transaction amount used for threshold-sensitive determinations.
        schema:
          type: number
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The calculated tax rate.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/TaxCalculation'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /tax_ids/validate.json:
    get:
      operationId: validateTaxId
      tags:
      - Taxes
      summary: Validate a tax ID
      description: Validates a customer tax ID / VAT number against the relevant government registry (for example VIES for EU VAT numbers).
      parameters:
      - name: country
        in: query
        required: true
        description: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: tax_id
        in: query
        required: true
        description: The tax ID / VAT number to validate.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Validation result.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  valid:
                    type: boolean
                  tax_id:
                    type: string
                  country:
                    type: string
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /tax_jurisdictions.json:
    get:
      operationId: listTaxJurisdictions
      tags:
      - Taxes
      summary: List tax jurisdictions
      description: Lists the tax jurisdictions the account is registered in, with the jurisdiction name, country, and region.
      parameters:
      - name: country
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Filter jurisdictions by country code.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of tax jurisdictions.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/TaxJurisdiction'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /tax_codes.json:
    get:
      operationId: listTaxCodes
      tags:
      - Taxes
      summary: List tax codes
      description: Lists the product tax codes available for classifying item taxability.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of tax codes.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/TaxCode'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
components:
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Missing or invalid API key.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  schemas:
    TaxCode:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        name:
          type: string
        description:
          type: string
    TaxJurisdiction:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        name:
          type: string
        country:
          type: string
        region:
          type: string
    TaxCalculation:
      type: object
      properties:
        country:
          type: string
        region:
          type: string
        county:
          type: string
        city:
          type: string
        name:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable tax name (for example VAT, GST, Sales Tax).
        rate:
          type: number
        tax_behavior:
          type: string
        notes:
          type: string
        status:
          type: string
          enum:
          - taxable
          - non_taxable
          - not_registered
          description: Reasoning for the calculated rate.
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
        errors:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
  securitySchemes:
    basicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
      description: HTTP Basic Authentication. Use your private API key as the username; the password can be any value. API keys are managed in the Quaderno account settings.