How would you make a invoice for a tarot card reading

[ebnoll]

How would you make a invoice for a tarot card reading and do I have to charge tax for that in california

[Minion · Accepted solution]

HI @ebnoll 

To begin with your question, you will want to make sure that you have tarot reading setup as either an item or service or in your Square library .( If you don't have that setup yet, and need help just let us know!)

I will link this article as a reference for you as well.

You will want to navigate to Invoices from your Square Dashboard.  Once in the Invoice overview section, select Invoice again.  Then click Create Invoice > Single.

Choose your invoice Template and select Next.

Fill out your customer details, Title, Service Date, Payment options and Item or services.  

Once that is all set, simply click send in the top right corner.

As far as taxes go in California for you, you may want to reach out to your accountant.  I see some services in California are not subject to sales tax, so reaching out to a CPA or similar would be your best bet to avoid any potential penalties. 

[RobynR]

Thank you, @Minion, for providing the steps to create an invoice for @ebnoll!

I’d like to add — regarding taxes, we recommend consulting a local tax advisor to ensure you’re compliant with California state laws, as we can’t provide tax advice.

Let us know if you need further assistance!

[VanKalkerFarms]

@ebnoll I would be careful in using Square with Tarrot cards and other metaphysical and supernatural things as Square has a complicated and vague interpretation of "Occult materials" which they have banned the use of is Square sales.  Many say they have no problem, then I will see a post once in a while that says they had their account frozen.  

here is a complicated thread going back and forth on what the definition is.  Depending on how you interpret Christian prayer candles or a crucifix could be depending on what you say their attributes are.
https://www.sellercommunity.com/t5/Troubleshooting/What-constitutes-quot-occult-materials-quot/m-p/2...

here are Square's terms of service.  In section 3.
https://squareup.com/us/en/legal/general/payment

[ebnoll]

All of this sounds pretty vague and based entirely on how square wants to interpret what one sells. If a retail store sells tarot cards, pendulums etc. how would they process with square? Also for example, if someone makes jewelry and uses Quartz crystal could that be flagged as occult? There are people who think crystals are associated with that, as well as yoga instructors who might use square. Some think yoga practice is of the occult! Where is square getting descriptions of products people sell? Is it just if they have a square website? If I process a sale , I don’t include the use for it. Guess I’m just not understanding Squares method of classification and broad definitions, especially under the occult classification. 

[VanKalkerFarms]

item names would be my best guess.  And yes it is far too vague and has been for years.  And yes that is the issue because there are probably ways to connect things if you really want to.

You could be absolutely fine, but I do know of a Square website that was taken down because of Tarot cards, and even when it was taken down it wasn't pointed out just that there were issues, and if I remember right it was they just had to take down the parts about tarot cards and the metaphysical aspect of telling one's destiny or whatever and just selling cards as cards was fine.

[ebnoll]

WOW, silly! Well whatever, I was basically checking for a friend. Will pass along the info. Maybe time to look at other processor’s. Thanks so much for your replies, very informative:)