WagDay HelpGST and Tax Settings
Set your organisation's tax rate, label and inclusive/exclusive pricing, override them per location, and pull the GST Summary (BAS) report.
WagDay's tax settings control how GST flows through booking prices, invoices and checkout. For an Australian facility the defaults are already right: 10% GST, included in your prices. Only Admins can change them.
Organisation defaults
The organisation-wide defaults live at Settings → Billing, on the Default Tax Settings card:
- Country — Australia by default. Switching country pre-fills the matching preset (rate, label and mode), which you can then edit.
- Tax rate (%) — 10 for Australian GST.
- Tax label — the wording shown on invoices and receipts ("GST" by default).
- Tax mode — Inclusive means the tax is part of your advertised price (a $55 booking contains $5 of GST); Exclusive means the tax is added on top at charge time.
These defaults apply to new locations automatically. The same card also carries the Enable seasonal pricing switch — see Packages, vouchers and discounts for what that turns on.
Per-location overrides
Each location can override the organisation defaults independently — handy if a site ever needs a different rate, label or mode. Open the Locations page, edit the location and adjust its tax fields. New locations start on the organisation defaults; changing the org defaults later doesn't rewrite existing locations.
Where tax shows up
- Booking totals — with inclusive pricing the GST is a component of the price the customer sees; with exclusive pricing it's added on top of the service price.
- Invoices and receipts — the tax amount appears under your tax label.
- Hosted checkout — when GST reporting is on for your Stripe account, the 10% GST is recorded as an inclusive component of checkout payments via Stripe Tax. That registration lives in your Stripe Dashboard; see Getting paid: Stripe or Square.
The GST Summary (BAS) report
Reports → GST Summary (BAS) gives you GST collected per month — subtotal ex-GST, the GST component, and the total — laid out for BAS preparation. Run it for your BAS period and hand the figures to your accountant or straight into your activity statement.
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Packages, Vouchers and Discounts
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