Exemption handling is applied within Sphere's calculation engine. No dedicated public REST endpoint for managing exemptions or exemption certificates is documented in the public API reference; exemption behavior is reflected in calculate_tax results.
openapi: 3.0.1
info:
title: Sphere Tax API
description: >-
Specification of the Sphere indirect tax compliance API. Sphere exposes a
developer-first REST API for calculating sales tax, VAT, and GST inside
billing and checkout flows, and for exporting transaction data. Requests are
authenticated with an API key supplied in the X-API-KEY header. Only the
endpoints publicly documented at docs.getsphere.com are modeled here; other
Sphere capabilities (nexus monitoring, registration, filing and remittance,
exemptions, webhooks) are delivered as platform features and do not have a
documented public REST surface as of this writing.
termsOfService: https://www.getsphere.com/
contact:
name: Sphere Support
url: https://docs.getsphere.com/
version: '1.0'
servers:
- url: https://server.getsphere.com
paths:
/tax_api/calculate_tax:
post:
operationId: calculateTax
tags:
- Tax Calculation
summary: Calculate tax for a transaction.
description: >-
Calculates indirect tax (sales tax, VAT, GST) for one or more line
items against a customer address and currency. Returns per-line tax
amounts, taxable amounts, a tax rate breakdown (percentage,
jurisdiction, country, state, tax type), and a unique calculation id.
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CalculateTaxRequest'
example:
customer_id: cus_RQx5PQDFSMH6Ku
customer_address:
address1: Investors Boulevard
city: Myrtle Beach
state: SC
postal_code: '29579'
country: US
line_items:
- amount: 10000
product_id: prod_RArEhwhXLfX5jF
discount_amount: 0
tax_inclusive: false
currency: usd
responses:
'200':
description: Tax calculated successfully.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CalculateTaxResponse'
example:
message: Tax calculated successfully
data:
lines:
- id: prod_RArEhwhXLfX5jF
tax_amounts:
- amount: 900
taxable_amount: 10000
tax_rate:
percentage: 9.0
inclusive: false
display_name: Sales Tax
jurisdiction: South Carolina
country: US
state: SC
tax_type: sales_tax
sphere_tax_calculation_id: cfd1e35a-ccb8-4bf1-86ed-49e332be220b
'401':
description: Missing or invalid API key.
/tax_api/exports:
post:
operationId: createTransactionExport
tags:
- Transactions Export
summary: Create a transaction export job.
description: >-
Initiates an asynchronous export job over transaction data for
reporting and reconciliation. Returns a job identifier used to poll for
status and retrieve the resulting download.
responses:
'200':
description: Export job created.
'401':
description: Missing or invalid API key.
/tax_api/exports/{job_id}:
get:
operationId: getTransactionExport
tags:
- Transactions Export
summary: Retrieve a transaction export job.
description: >-
Retrieves the status of an export job and, once complete, the download
URL for the exported transaction data.
parameters:
- name: job_id
in: path
required: true
description: The identifier of the export job to retrieve.
schema:
type: string
responses:
'200':
description: Export job status and download details.
'401':
description: Missing or invalid API key.
'404':
description: Export job not found.
/tax_api/exports/{job_id}/cancel:
post:
operationId: cancelTransactionExport
tags:
- Transactions Export
summary: Cancel a transaction export job.
description: Terminates a running or queued export job.
parameters:
- name: job_id
in: path
required: true
description: The identifier of the export job to cancel.
schema:
type: string
responses:
'200':
description: Export job cancelled.
'401':
description: Missing or invalid API key.
'404':
description: Export job not found.
components:
securitySchemes:
api_key:
type: apiKey
in: header
name: X-API-KEY
description: Sphere API key supplied in the X-API-KEY request header.
schemas:
CalculateTaxRequest:
type: object
required:
- customer_address
- line_items
- currency
properties:
customer_id:
type: string
description: Optional billing platform customer identifier.
customer_address:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CustomerAddress'
line_items:
type: array
description: One or more line items to calculate tax for.
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/LineItem'
currency:
type: string
description: ISO 4217 currency code, lowercase only (e.g. usd).
CustomerAddress:
type: object
required:
- country
properties:
address1:
type: string
address2:
type: string
city:
type: string
state:
type: string
postal_code:
type: string
country:
type: string
description: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.
LineItem:
type: object
required:
- amount
properties:
id:
type: string
description: Optional line item identifier.
amount:
type: integer
description: Line amount in the smallest currency unit (cents).
product_id:
type: string
description: Product identifier used for tax categorization.
discount_amount:
type: integer
description: Discount applied to the line, in cents.
tax_inclusive:
type: boolean
description: Whether the amount is tax inclusive.
CalculateTaxResponse:
type: object
properties:
message:
type: string
data:
type: object
properties:
lines:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/TaxLine'
sphere_tax_calculation_id:
type: string
description: Unique identifier for this tax calculation.
TaxLine:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: string
description: Line item or product identifier.
tax_amounts:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/TaxAmount'
TaxAmount:
type: object
properties:
amount:
type: integer
description: Tax amount in cents.
taxable_amount:
type: integer
description: Taxable amount in cents.
tax_rate:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/TaxRate'
TaxRate:
type: object
properties:
percentage:
type: number
description: Tax rate percentage.
inclusive:
type: boolean
display_name:
type: string
jurisdiction:
type: string
country:
type: string
state:
type: string
tax_type:
type: string
description: Type of tax (e.g. sales_tax, vat, gst).
security:
- api_key: []