Taxes and Payments at Gilt

presentation given at the Portland Java User Group
April 15, 2014

Transcript

1. Taxes and Payments at Gilt Sean Sullivan April 15, 2014
2. • gilt.com • Taxes • Credit cards • Alternate payment methods
3. Gilt is an online retailer
4. www.gilt.com
5. www.gilt.com
6. Gilt Checkout
7. https://www.gilt.com/checkout
8. Gilt’s checkout system • reserve inventory • assign shipping address • enforce shipping restrictions • identify eligible ship methods • calculate ship cost
9. Gilt’s checkout system • assign currency • identify eligible payment methods • assign payment method to order
10. Gilt’s checkout system • identify eligible discounts • apply discounts • apply account credits • calculate tax
11. Domestic orders
12. Different tax laws in each U.S. state
13. http://www.oregon.gov/dor/Pages/salestax.aspx “Oregon does not have a general sales tax (or a use/transaction tax). “
14. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dof/html/business/nys_sales_tax.shtml Sales tax in New York state
15. Sales tax in New York state http://www.tax.ny.gov/bus/st/sales_tax_rates.htm The combined sales and use tax rate equals the state rate (currently 4%) plus any local tax rate imposed by a city, county, or school district. [...] The combined rates vary in each county and in cities that impose sales tax.
16. Use a commercial tax calculator
17. http://www.vertexinc.com/Solutions/indirect/vertex-o-series.asp
18. • O Series On Demand (SAAS) • SOAP API • generate SOAP client with Apache CXF • commit SOAP client source to a Git repo • publish library to internal Ivy repo Vertex integration @ Gilt
19. @WebService(targetNamespace = "http://www.vertexinc.com/oseries/services/ CalculateTax50", name = "CalculateTaxWS50") @XmlSeeAlso({com.vertexinc.oseries.tps_5_0.ObjectFactory.class}) @SOAPBinding(parameterStyle = SOAPBinding.ParameterStyle.BARE) public interface CalculateTaxWS50 { @WebResult(name = "VertexEnvelope", targetNamespace = "urn:vertexinc:o- series:tps:5:0", partName = "VertexEnvelope") @WebMethod public com.vertexinc.oseries.tps_5_0.VertexEnvelope calculateTax50( @WebParam(partName = "part", name = "VertexEnvelope", targetNamespace = "urn:vertexinc:o-series:tps:5:0") com.vertexinc.oseries.tps_5_0.VertexEnvelope part ); } Generated code
20. International orders
21. borderfree.com
22. checkout system Borderfree checkout UI
23. Borderfree Checkout API • quoteRequest • placeOrderRequest
24. Credit card transactions
25. Credit card operations • AVS check • authorization • capture • credit
26. checkout system payment system payment processor checkout UI order processing system order queue
27. Credit card security
28. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Security_Standard
29. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Security_Standard
30. Public key cryptography
31. Encrypting credit card data 1. AJAX request: GET /get_publickey 2. encrypt with JavaScript encryption library: rsa.encrypt(publicKey, ccData) 3. HTTPS POST to server
32. https://paysvc.giltvault.com/payment_service/ get_publickey?callback=demo
33. Gilt’s encryption key ceremony
34. http://tech.gilt.com/post/77092511313/scenes-from-the-annual-encryption-key-ceremony-at-gilt
35. http://tech.gilt.com/post/77092511313/scenes-from-the-annual-encryption-key-ceremony-at-gilt
36. Alternate payment methods
37. Gilt.com Checkout with PayPal
38. https://www.gilt.com/checkout
45. Integrating with
46. • SOAP API • NVP API • REST API developer API’s
47. • SetExpressCheckout • GetExpressCheckoutDetails • DoExpressCheckoutPayment Express Checkout
48. Emerging payment technology
49. Crypto currencies
50. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-25/bitcoin-is-property-not-currency-in-tax-system-irs-says.html
51. http://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/455825603988824064
52. The end
53. Bonus slides
54. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quill_Corp._v._North_Dakota
55. http://twitter.com/evanpro/status/238728001670479872