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What is Avalara?
Avalara AvaTax connects to the software that businesses already have and delivers sales tax decisions based on precise geo-location in more than 12,000 taxing jurisdictions in the U.S.
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- Sales and Use Taxes (320)8.888%
- Tax Exemption Processing (219)8.585%
- Tax Data Reporting (270)8.383%
- 3rd-Party Software Integrations (243)8.080%
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- $21 per month
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What is Avalara?
Avalara helps to make tax compliance faster,
easier, more accurate, and more reliable for 30,000+ business and government
customers in over 90 countries. Tax compliance automation software solutions
from Avalara leverage 1,200+ signed partner integrations across ecommerce, ERP, and other billing systems to power tax calculations, document
management, tax return filing, and tax content access. Visit avalara.com to learn more.
Avalara Features
Type of tax Features
- Supported: Sales and Use Taxes
- Supported: Cross-border Taxes
- Supported: VAT / GST Taxes
- Supported: Energy and Fuel Taxes
Tax Reporting & Compliance Features
- Supported: Geolocation for Tax Assessment
- Supported: 3rd-Party Software Integrations
- Supported: Tax Data Reporting
- Supported: Compliance Administration Management
- Supported: Tax Exemption Processing
- Supported: Tax Document Management
- Supported: Complex Tax Scenario Management
Additional Features
- Supported: Centralized tax management: Unifies sales and use tax calculation, document management, and returns preparation.
- Supported: Integrations: AvaTax connects with more than 700 prebuilt integrations to connect with accounting, ecommerce, POS, and other systems, plus an advanced API.
- Supported: Cloud-based: A software-as-a-service solution, AvaTax updates take effect as soon as they are deployed, helping to ensure the most current information is used.
- Supported: Exemption management: Certificates from vendors are stored electronically for access and to track expiration dates. Automatic renewal requests are sent out before certificates expire.
- Supported: Returns filing and remittance: Returns preparation and remittance in multiple jurisdictions. Avalara Returns can track and manage due dates and payment requirements, enabling users to pay returns with a single source of payment.
- Supported: Lodging: Lodging tax for hotel or rental property are managed with a solution that plugs into reservation software to deliver lodging tax calculations in real time as well as preparation, filing, and remittances of lodge tax returns.
- Supported: Communications: Tax calculations are delivered on an array of communications transactions by directly connecting to a current billing or ERP system, or to an in-house build via API.
- Supported: Beverage Alcohol: Simplified regulatory compliance for suppliers, distributors, and retailers in the beverage alcohol industry.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Avalara AvaTax connects to the software that businesses already have and delivers sales tax decisions based on precise geo-location in more than 12,000 taxing jurisdictions in the U.S.
Avalara starts at $21.
Vertex, Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud, and Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE are common alternatives for Avalara.
Reviewers rate Sales and Use Taxes highest, with a score of 8.8.
The most common users of Avalara are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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May 09, 2024
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- We have realized significant savings of time and resources to process tax related accounts payable transactions
- We have reduced the hours required to manage tax reporting internally by 75%
- Reduced missed tax rate changes resulting in reduced expense related to tax under-collections.
May 08, 2024
Best Product, But Still Needs To Get Better
- lots of work to set up items
- lots of work to make sure Avalara does correct reporting to states
- reduces lots of time calculating sales tax on transactions
- Avalara reporting not complex enough to exclude wholesale sales out fo states that exclude wholesale sales from threaholds on order counts and thresholds
May 08, 2024
Avalara Review
- Reduce the time spent on your sales tax
May 07, 2024
Avalara you came along way.
- Time efficient
- Storage and ease
- Effective on expirations date
- Reports are easy to obtain
May 05, 2024
Ease your tax management worries.
- The ROI with Avalara has been significant. We did not have to hire additional staff to manage sales tax. Before Avalara, when we managed taxes in-house, we constantly received late filing notices and paid related penalties. That all stopped once Avalara took over.
May 03, 2024
Avatax, make your sales tax headache easier.
- It makes my job easier. I don't have to keep track of different county taxes etc.. in a state.
- It makes doing our sales tax returns easier.
- It helps the sales team give customers more accurate estimates.
May 03, 2024
Avalara- There when you need them!
- Lowered our overall state submission time
- Lowered our overall state penalties due to reporting and cloud-based software
May 02, 2024
Avalara - Today, Tomorrow, and into the Future
- Positive Impact - Real Time Tax Rates
- Positive Impact - Real Time Tax Determinations
- Positive Impact - Reports easily integrate into tax compliance filings
May 02, 2024
Worth every penny
- I have less staff
May 02, 2024
My Review of Avalara
- We are very basic users, so we don't benefit from all of the service offered
May 02, 2024
Avatax for the WIN!
- It frees my time up dramatically.
May 02, 2024
Avalara is the Real Thing!
- I have tried other research sources and it would take me hours to find an answer - with Avalara it takes just a few minutes.
- With the roof top sales tax the audit results have improved.
May 02, 2024
Treading Tax Waters with Avalara
- With Wayfair, our tax obligation increased 300% and still growing. Avalara was an extremely valuable resource in helping us manage those requirements.
- Avalara has allowed us to maintain staff levels without increasing our overhead for any new associates to focus on those tax issues.
May 02, 2024
Avalara product review
- We process millions of invoices per year so calculating sales tax would be impossible without Avalara.
- We are more likely to be compliant in miscellaneous areas like state delivery fees because Avalara makes it easy.
- We receive over 100 exemption certificates every day. Without Avalara's software we would require at least 2 additional individuals to manage just exemption certificates.
May 02, 2024
Ava
- Allows me to have time for other things
- Easy to use and teach
May 02, 2024
Accurate Time Saver!
- Had a client spending 10 hours per month completing sales tax returns and has now been reduced to 30 minutes per month.
- Saves time and money by addressing sales tax notices received.
May 02, 2024
Avalara
- accuracy
- time spent on returns
- less staffing required
- We have been able to keep staffing the same even though business has more than doubled.
- Avalara filing my returns has cut down on my time spent by hours.
- I hopeful our new integrations will soon help the rest of the sales staff as well.
May 02, 2024
Great Data Solution
- Time saver
- reliable data
- consistancy
May 02, 2024
Avalara bolt on to Acumatica
- Improved Accuracy of Sales Tax Filings
- Saved 6 hours / month filing returns manually
May 02, 2024
Avalara Review
- Saved significant time calculating different rates
- Keep us compliant across complex jurisdiction lines
- Allows me time to focus on other areas of work
May 02, 2024
Avalara review
- Calculating sales tax is so beneficial to us because before Avalara we would have to input and research doing thing manually cost us time.
- Avalara filing the returns saved us more than 40 hours of time spent.
- Avalara's returns reporting makes it easier to file some of the returns we do manually and saves us time.
May 02, 2024
Avalara to the rescue
- Reduces the time spent on researching tax law changes.
- Eliminated the need for addition staff.
- The cost is high for a small business.
May 02, 2024
Very Pleased Avalara User
- Virtually impossible for us to file 42 sales tax returns with our current staff and now sales tax reconciliation takes only a few hours
May 02, 2024
Review
- We have saved money from having by transitioning to Avalara to complete our returns,