This is part of a series of communications designed to provide Sales Tax Q Series (STQ) customers with information regarding a new release targeted for availability during the Q1 – 2010 timeframe. The major enhancement planned for this new STQ 4.0 release is the ability to use 9-digit ZIP Codes to retrieve GeoCodes for jurisdiction identification. To support this new capability, approximately 1,100 new district-level GeoCodes are also being added to the appropriate data files.
Some key considerations that you need to know to benefit from this new release are:
1. STQ 4.0 users will now have the option of using either the current lookup capabilities or the new 9-digit ZIP Code lookup, or both, to retrieve GeoCodes for pre-assignment.
2. If you want to continue to use pre-assignment as you always have, you do not need to change anything or do anything differently. In some cases, more GeoCodes will be returned than in previous releases of STQ. This will enable you to be more accurate in selecting the correct GeoCode.
3. If 9-digit ZIP Code lookup is desired, the new data files will have to be loaded. There is also new API functionality that will be utilized. If you use home-grown or other third-party software to perform pre-assignment, changes will be required to your API integration functions.
4. A new Jurisdiction Identification Technical Guide is now available to provide detailed information regarding the 9-digit ZIP functionality. This guide also provides instructions for creating new API program changes in order to support ERP integration changes. You will need to review the technical guide in order to fully implement this release.
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