You crossed Texas eleven days ago.

No — and we would rather say so plainly than imply otherwise. TaxEqual prepares the figures, the local schedule of what your store charged and the filing calendar; you submit the return and pay the state. Registering with a state is also yours to do. We are compliance software, not a filing agent, and not tax advice.

Because a connector that treats every platform the same is how order data gets flattened and figures land on the wrong return. We read Shopify's own order, refund, product and location data directly — including the tax it charged on every line and which orders a marketplace already remitted on.

When you install you choose a start date up to twelve months back, on every plan, and everything the app reports is bounded by it — so a zero always means no sales, never no data. Nexus looks further on its own, from the start of last year, because thresholds are judged on windows that opened before you installed. Need older periods? Starter and Pro can import further back in windows of up to 24 months, $5 per import.

Read-only access to orders — including orders older than 60 days, which Shopify approves separately — refunds, products and locations, plus Shopify's Protected Customer Data approval: without a ship-to state there is no way to tell which state's return a sale belongs on. We never write to your store.

Less than you might expect. The sync asks Shopify only for the ship-to city, state and country — never the customer's name, contact details or ZIP code — and strips anything else from a webhook before it is saved. The city and the raw order payload are encrypted at rest; only the state and country codes stay readable, because a return is grouped by them. Shopify's customer-erasure requests are honored automatically.

The app notices tax already charged there and registers the state from the first month it saw it, so the return appears straight away rather than waiting behind a prompt. It starts on that state's default filing frequency, which you can change in Settings. From then on that state files on its own schedule alongside the others.

Yes — and with Basic Tax or a third-party tax engine. TaxEqual reports the tax your checkout actually charged, line by line, whichever engine charged it. It does not second-guess the amount: if a rate is set up wrongly in Shopify, the report shows that faithfully.

On your gross sales and order count into each state — Shopify orders, off-platform sales you add, and every store you link — over the window that state's law uses. Sales made through a marketplace, which remits the tax itself, are left out unless a state's own rule counts them. Nexus is re-evaluated every night, and you are warned from 70% of a threshold.

Shopify tells us, and the store's data — orders, reports, settings — is erased on the schedule Shopify's compliance webhooks set. Filing history goes with it, so export what you need first.