Global Pricing & Tax Estimator API

The Global Pricing & Tax Estimator API localizes prices across borders by combining:

• FX conversion to destination currency
• Country-level VAT / GST / Sales Tax heuristics
• Category-aware rules (digital vs physical, ebooks, groceries, etc.)
• Optional psychological pricing strategies (.99, rounding to 0.05)

It is optimized for:

• Product teams that need fast, deterministic localized prices
• Developers building global checkout flows
• SaaS and marketplaces that want “good enough” tax + FX without a full tax engine

⚠️ This API is for estimation and UX purposes only.
It is not a tax filing or legal-compliance engine.

What This API Does Well

• Gives you a reasonable localized price for a given country and product category.
• Handles FX conversion + tax estimation in a single call.
• Returns a complete price breakdown:
  • netPrice
  • convertedNetPrice
  • taxAmount
  • grossPrice
  • displayPrice
  • taxBreakdown[]
  • meta (confidence, FX source, rules version, etc.)

High-Level Flow

1. You send:

   • basePrice + baseCurrency
   • originCountry + destinationCountry
   • productCategory
   • Optional pricingStrategy

2. The engine:

   • Converts to destination currency using cached FX rates.
   • Looks up a country tax profile and category rules.
   • Computes an estimated tax and gross price.
   • Applies a psychological pricing strategy (if requested).

3. You get:

   • A localized displayPrice in the destination currency.
   • A breakdown of what was applied.
   • Metadata describing how confident the estimate is.

Example – One Line Estimate

curl -X POST "https://global-pricing-tax-estimator-api-fx-vat-gst-sales-tax.p.rapidapi.com/v1/price/estimate" \
  -H "X-RapidAPI-Key: <YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "basePrice": 20,
    "baseCurrency": "USD",
    "originCountry": "US",
    "destinationCountry": "DE",
    "productCategory": "digital_service",
    "customerType": "consumer",
    "pricingStrategy": "charm_99"
  }'

Response (simplified):

{
  "netPrice": 20,
  "convertedNetPrice": 18.47,
  "taxAmount": 3.51,
  "grossPrice": 21.98,
  "displayPrice": 21.99,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "taxBreakdown": [
    { "type": "VAT", "jurisdiction": "DE", "rate": 0.19, "amount": 3.51 }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "isEstimate": true,
    "supportLevel": "full",
    "confidence": 0.95,
    "fxRate": 0.9235,
    "rulesVersion": "2025-11-28"
  }
}

Where to Go Next

• Getting Started – first call in 5 minutes
• Authentication – RapidAPI headers & direct usage
• Price Estimate Endpoint – core single-item endpoint
• Batch Estimate – carts and catalogs