Excise certification
Excise Certification
Depending on the scope of your integration and your business practice, your test cases will vary. For development partners, many of these are requirements for certification. If you were to give us full functionality demo, here’s what we’d like to see:
Use Case Expected Outcome
View Configuration elements within the Calling Application Administrative user should be able to view/modify the following to provide system ability to point to various levels of systems (Dev, UAT, Prod):
  • User Id to be used for Excise Platform Authentication
  • Password to be used for Excise Platform Authentication (should be stored encrypted and non-viewable)
Validate Required Data in AvaTax Excise Call You should be able to identify the following values:
  • Company Name or Identifier
  • Effective Date for Transaction
  • Transaction Type
  • Title Transfer Code
  • Product Code per Line Item
  • Origin Information (Terminal or City and State)
  • Destination Information (Terminal or City and State)
  • Units (Gross, Net, and Billed)
Validate Transactional Save Functionality SaveTransactionInd field should not be set in integration code. This can be tested by checking the Company Setting Value for Save Transaction Indicator within web interface:
  • Click Maintenance, click Companies, click the company you wish to edit on the left hand side.
  • On the Settings tab, choose the ‘AvaTax Excise’ Settings Category
  • Click the Save Transaction setting, click the copy tab
  • On the copy tab, set the value field to either ‘true’ to save transactions or ‘false’ to not save transactions for XML calls.
  • Click insert to apply the setting change.
  • Future changes to this setting must be done directly to the record inserted in this process.
  • Send in a transaction with it set to True and transaction is saved
  • Send again when it is set to False and no transaction is saved
Run a test transaction with multiple line items Build an input transaction object multiple line items. Transmit the multiple line items and verify that multiple line results are returned. This can be done with the API and the web (page) interface.
Sample Use Case: Process a Diesel Fuel transaction to Wisconsin with Destination Title Transfer where the buyer is licensed as a Indian Tribe Confirm the following transaction:
  • After a buyer is set up in the Excise Platform with a WI Indian Tribe License the transaction should be exempt of taxes when sent in with that Buyer