If your Shopify store sells to business customers in Canada, New Zealand, Malaysia, or Singapore, you may need to show your customer’s GST (Goods and Services Tax) number on their invoices.
GST numbers are commonly used to identify tax-registered businesses in countries that use Goods and Services Tax.
Sufio, an invoicing app for Shopify, helps you collect these numbers from your customers and automatically add them to their invoices.
In this article, you will learn how to collect GST numbers using:
To collect GST numbers in your Shopify store, you can add a GST number field to your customer registration form.
This allows business customers to enter their GST number when they create an account in your online store.
Once a customer enters their GST number, it will be stored in your Shopify admin as part of theircustomer notes.
Sufio will then automatically include the GST number on the invoices sent to the customer.
To add the GST number field to your customer registration form, customize your Shopify store theme:
- In your Shopify admin, go to the Online Store → Themes page.
- Click the Actions button, then click Edit code.
- In the left sidebar, select customers/register.liquid. You can use the search bar at the top to find the file faster.
- Insert the following code snippet inside the
<form>tag. A good place to add the field is before the Email field.
You can add a GST number field to the cart page so customers can enter their GST number before checkout.
When a customer enters their GST number using this field, it will be saved as a cart attribute in your Shopify admin. Sufio will then automatically include it on the invoices sent to the customer.
To add the GST number field to the cart page, customize your Shopify store theme:
- In your Shopify admin, go to the Online Store → Themes page.
- Click the Actions button, then click Edit code.
- In the left sidebar, select cart.liquid. You can use the search bar at the top to find the file faster.
- Insert the code snippet inside the
<form>tag. A good place to add the field is just before the Check out button.
Note
Depending on your Shopify theme, you may need to add the code snippet to a different file than cart.liquid. In many themes, this file is named main-cart-footer.liquid.
If your store uses a cart drawer, also known as an Ajax cart, the correct file is usually ajax-cart-template.liquid.
In addition to collecting GST numbers through your online store, you can add them manually in your Shopify admin.
This can be useful if your sales team regularly creates orders on behalf of customers, or if you need to create an order for a new customer manually.
To add a customer’s GST number as a customer note:
- In your Shopify admin, go to the Customers page.
- Select a customer, or click Add customer to create a new customer.
- Enter the GST number in the Customer Note field. Use the prefix GST Number:, for example, GST Number: 27AAACC4175D1ZY.
- Click Save to apply your changes.
You can add the GST number before or after creating the order. Sufio will automatically sync the number and update the customer’s invoices.