GST and Tax Settings

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 defaultsCopy Anchor Link

The organisation-wide defaults live at Settings → Subscription, 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 overridesCopy Anchor Link

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 upCopy Anchor Link

• 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. An invoice PDF is titled Tax invoice when your organisation profile has a valid ABN and the invoice includes GST at a single rate; otherwise it is titled Invoice. From $1,000 a tax invoice also needs the customer's name. The invoice email is a summary and is always titled Invoice.
• 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) reportCopy Anchor Link

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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• Getting paid: Stripe or Square
• Invoices, payments and refunds