How the monthly retainer bills, and where the sales-tax line comes from.

The first invoice is paid through Stripe Checkout the moment a client signs the Engagement Letter — a single checkout session for the on-time onboarding charge. From that point forward the retainer is $1,200/month, billed monthly on the Engagement Letter. There is no hidden subscription engine automatically charging the card at month-end: each monthly invoice is issued by the operator after review.

Either side ends the engagement with 30 days of written notice, no penalty. The card on file is used because Stripe is the system of record for every charge — a Stripe invoice is issued for every monthly retainer, and (where Stripe Tax applies) the tax line appears on the invoice. The Engagement Letter is the source of truth for the rate and the notice period; this page is the plain-English restatement.

Sales tax is computed and billed by Stripe, not hand-rolled in this app — the rate applied is whatever the customer's billing address triggers under current Stripe Tax rules. If Stripe Tax is enabled on the connected Stripe Express account, the Stripe invoice carries a separate tax line; if it's disabled, the invoice carries the retainer total only.

The operator enables or disables Stripe Tax on the connected Stripe Express dashboard under Settings › Tax. The operator-facing toggle on this app's AppSetting table records the same intent for the public /legal/taxpage and for the next operator. The two states stay consistent by name, not by automation — until the platform exposes a tax-settings endpoint we can route the same PATCH through.

In short: the tax line on every Stripe invoice is whatever Stripe Tax decides for the billing address on file. We do not compute state sales tax by hand, and we do not guarantee the rate matches a specific jurisdiction outside what Stripe computes.

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Registered business address:
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For invoicing and tax correspondence, the entity and address printed on every Stripe invoice match the values above. To request the full registered business address on file (used on the engagement letter and in the State of Oregon business registry), write build-placeholder.