PAR POS Native Marketplace Facilitator (MPF) Tax

Overview

Marketplace Facilitator (MPF) tax applies when a third-party marketplace (such as DoorDash or Uber Eats) remits sales tax to the tax authority on behalf of your restaurant, rather than your restaurant remitting it directly.

Previously, PAR Ordering handled MPF orders by marking them as tax-exempt and applying a surcharge to represent the marketplace-remitted tax amount. This workaround skews tax and surcharge reporting and complicates reconciliation.

With native MPF tax support, PAR Ordering submits orders to PAR POS with an explicit Taxes collection that shows which portion of tax the marketplace remitted and which portion the store remitted. This eliminates the tax-exempt and surcharge workaround and produces correct tax reporting.

PAR Ordering handles three order scenarios. Each produces a different Taxes payload to PAR POS.

Scenario	MPF Tax Amount	Store Tax Amount	Taxes Collection Sent to PAR POS
No MPF	0	Any	Empty (no change from legacy behavior)
Full MPF	Equals total order tax	0	One entry: ThirdParty remittance for the full MPF tax amount, using the Third-Party MPF Tax ID
Partial MPF	Less than total order tax	Remainder	Two entries: ThirdParty (MPF amount, Third-Party MPF Tax ID) and Store (remainder, Store Tax ID)

In all scenarios, the payment amount sent to PAR POS excludes the MPF tax amount, consistent with how the marketplace settles the order.

Before You Begin

Before you configure native MPF tax in Management Center, the following prerequisites must be in place.

Step 1: Create tax entries in the PAR POS Settings Editor

In the PAR POS Settings Editor, go to Options > Online Ordering > Taxes. Click Add Taxes.

• Create (or identify) a tax entry for marketplace-remitted tax. Set its Remittance Type to ThirdParty.
• Create (or identify) a tax entry for store-remitted tax. Set its Remittance Type to Store.

Step 2: Retrieve the Tax IDs

There are two ways to retrieve the Tax IDs:

Changeset Publisher in the Admin Portal (PAR POS)

1. Open the PAR POS Admin Portal.
2. Click Configuration.
3. Click Changeset Packages.
4. Find a published Changeset.

5. Click the name of the changeset to view the details. The Tax ID will be shown under Changeset Details.

PAR POS API

The numeric Tax IDs required for Management Center configuration can also be retrieved from the PAR POS GetOptions API.

Your PAR representative will provide you with:

• The numeric Id for the ThirdParty tax entry. This is your Third-Party MPF Tax ID.
• The numeric Id for the Store tax entry. This is your Store Tax ID.

Configure Native MPF Tax in Management Center

The Third-Party MPF Tax ID and Store Tax ID fields are available in the PAR POS Integration panel at both the store group level and the store level.

Configure at the store group level

1. In Management Center, go to Brand > Configurations > Store Groups.
2. Select the store group you want to configure.
3. Select Integration to manage the PAR POS integration.
4. Under Integration Type > Settings:
   1. Enter the Third-Party MPF Tax ID value provided by your PAR representative.
   2. Enter the Store Tax ID value provided by your PAR representative.
5. Click Save.

Configure at the store level

Use store-level configuration to override the store group settings for a specific store.

1. In Management Center, go to Store > Configurations > POS Integrations.
2. Enter the Third-Party MPF Tax ID value for this store.
3. Enter the Store Tax ID value for this store.
4. Click Save.

Lookup order

PAR Ordering resolves Tax IDs in the following order:

1. Store-level values, used when both fields are populated at the store level.
2. Store group-level values, used when one or both store-level fields are empty.
3. Legacy fallback, used when both fields are empty at both levels.

Keep the MPF Surcharge ID configured

Marketplace mismatch tolerance: The MPF Surcharge ID is used by the marketplace mismatch tolerance feature, which compares order totals between PAR POS and the marketplace. This feature requires the surcharge configuration regardless of whether native MPF is enabled.

Activate Native MPF

Native MPF is active only when both the Third-Party MPF Tax ID and Store Tax ID fields are populated at either the store or store group level. Populating only one field is not sufficient.

This applies to both MPF types:

• Full MPF stores: Both Tax IDs must be configured even though the Store Tax ID is not included in the Taxes payload for full MPF orders. Its presence signals that native mode is intentional.
• Partial MPF stores: Both Tax IDs are used directly in the Taxes payload.

Troubleshooting

Symptom	Likely Cause	Resolution
Orders still show tax-exempt and MPF surcharge after configuring Tax IDs	One or both Tax ID fields are empty at the effective level	Verify that both fields are populated. Store-level fields take priority over store group-level fields.
Orders are rejected or fail at PAR POS	Tax IDs entered do not exist in PAR POS, or remittance types are misconfigured	Confirm the Tax IDs with your PAR representative and verify that remittance types are correct in the PAR POS Settings Editor.
Full MPF orders show both a ThirdParty and a Store entry unexpectedly	The MPF tax amount does not equal the total order tax; the order is treated as partial MPF	Confirm with the marketplace that 100% of tax is being remitted for full MPF channels.
Store-level configuration is not taking effect	Only one Tax ID field is populated at the store level	Both Tax ID fields must be populated at the same level for that level to activate native MPF.

Related Documentation

• Marketplace Facilitator (MPF) Taxes