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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CCH® SureTax®

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ACCH SureTax is designed by tax experts to help businesses comply even with the most complex sale and use tax requirements. Always up-to-date on 100,000+ annual tax legislation changes, this cloud-based sales tax automation platform aims to ensure customers accurately calculate, collect, and remit taxes to the correct authorities every time.N/A

    Stitch Labs (discontinued)

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AStitch Labs was an inventory management software that included features such as multichannel selling and inventory control, with order and fulfillment management for retail. It was acquired by Square in July 2020, and new customers are no longer being accepted.N/A
    Pricing
    CCH® SureTax®Stitch Labs (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CCH® SureTax®Stitch Labs (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    CCH® SureTax®Stitch Labs (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Wolters Kluwer
    No answer on this topic
    Discontinued Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    85%
    Would buy again
    53 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    46 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    55 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    84%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    37 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    45 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    CCH® SureTax®Stitch Labs (discontinued)
    Type of tax
    Comparison of Type of tax features of CCH® SureTax® and Stitch Labs (discontinued)
    Feature
    CCH® SureTax®
    7.4
    62 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Stitch Labs (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Sales and Use Taxes7.962 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cross-border Taxes9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    VAT / GST Taxes5.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Energy and Fuel Taxes7.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tax Reporting & Compliance
    Comparison of Tax Reporting & Compliance features of CCH® SureTax® and Stitch Labs (discontinued)
    Feature
    CCH® SureTax®
    6.8
    61 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Stitch Labs (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Geolocation for Tax Assessment8.945 Ratings00 Ratings
    3rd-Party Software Integrations6.243 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tax Data Reporting6.755 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance Administration Management6.641 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tax Exemption Processing7.643 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tax Document Management6.633 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex Tax Scenario Management5.242 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    CCH® SureTax®Stitch Labs (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
    Intuit Lacerte
    Score9.4 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Lappa
    Score8.8 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Vertex
    Score8.8 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    CCH® SureTax®Stitch Labs (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (63 ratings)
    1.1
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.6
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CCH® SureTax®Stitch Labs (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Wolters Kluwer
    I would put CCH® SureTax® at the top of the scale for any Telecom business or anyone with a known tax scenario that will be similarly sketchy. This software, while not always user friendly, can do amazing things to help you navigate the tax issues facing us all today. This would not be appropriate for a company just needing help gathering their sales tax information. There are plenty of other, friendlier solutions, possibly what they are already using for their accounting that will do it cleaner, easier and cheaper. You just have to ask an expert in that software.
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    Discontinued Products
    I can't recommend Stitch Labs as it was discontinued as of June 2021 (after being purchased by Square). All existing users have had to move off the platform and it they are not taking new customers. Square has said they are going to relaunch a new version of Stitch Labs possibly sometime in the future, but release date and features have not been announced.
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    Pros
    Wolters Kluwer
    • Maintains Nexus nationwide.
    • Implements all of the various sales tax rates nationwide automatically.
    • Clean website that is very user friendly.
    • Support is very quick to respond and always fixes any issues you may be having.
    • We have had this since 2013, and not one time has a sales tax rate been wrong. We used to have Avalara, where we had 12 different overrides in their system just to calculate the correct tax. It is nice not having to maintain those.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Inventory management.
    • Order management.
    • Reporting and analytics.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Wolters Kluwer
    • We have participated in some prepayment testing so we know that functionality is being built out and what we saw looked really good. We're anxious to have that rolled out.
    • We'd like a cleaner way to export documentation of what was paid and EXACTLY what was paid. Currently web fees and some small balances are not shown by the website and that means making journal entries is a more manual process than hoped.
    • We've been working with folks at SureTax about discrepancies between CCH RADAR rates vs the rates which get used in SureTax. We have learned the 2 systems do not utilize the same data and we often find RADAR is more accurate.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Reporting does not work for multiple currencies.
    • There is often a lag when syncing products.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Wolters Kluwer
    We switched our tax service from Avalara to SureTax years ago. Prior to this, we manually prepared the data and ran a report uploading and then got the tax result every time. With Suretax providing enough and flexable APIs, we redesigned and implemented our new application to communicate with SureTax seamlessly and automatically. This greatly reduced our workload, improves the system efficiency, and increased the data accuracy.
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Wolters Kluwer
    SureTax is very reliable in with the integration with Microsoft Dynamics GP. It provides accurate tax calculations in accordance with tax updates. SureTax also has a user-friendly interface that makes it easy to navigate. It is easy to add customers and also run reports on the website. The overall manageability of it is great!
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    Discontinued Products
    I think the usability of SL is seamless comparable to other systems that we have and still have. I think the user interface could be better in some aspects, but also has improved the way we do business. Once you get around the brief learning curve SL tends to be easy to use and navigate.
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    Support Rating
    Wolters Kluwer
    It has taken much longer than we would like to get certain issues - and problems - resolved. And the initial product support as we designed the implementation left much to be desired
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    Discontinued Products
    We originally had phone support but when Stitch Labs updated the pricing they removed phone support from our service tier. It was very frustrating. We used their email contact and the answers were fine but sometimes it takes too long to try to solve something over email when you want to just talk to someone and get a quick answer.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Wolters Kluwer
    100% better. Avalara is a self-starter kit where businesses are forced to create and develop their own bundles and product types. The support that you get from the AvaTax is not as user-friendly. SureTax is full of seasoned experts and full of industry leaders. Law firms that I have worked with in the past, as well as other CPAs, only recommend SureTax.
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    Discontinued Products
    I have not researched other alternatives as this solved my problems.
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    Return on Investment
    Wolters Kluwer
    • Previously we paid $5,200 per year for a standalone telecom tax calculation program. The overall cost of the combined solution that we have is just about the same as the cost of everything that we have before adding that cost in.
    • Once you add in the additional benefit of the API integration and the automation that's freed up employee time, I think it's fairly safe to say that as we've grown, the combined efficiencies have allowed us to operate with two fewer employees than we would have otherwise needed.
    • Over past 4 years we have yet to be notified of any errors in our submitted regulatory taxes.
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    Discontinued Products
    • We had to migrate off this system which was not ideal after being discontinued
    • Was a simple to use medium price range solution to scaling businesses
    • UI/UX was intuitive and was easy to train employees
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    ScreenShots

    CCH® SureTax® Screenshots

    Screenshot of Transaction level viewScreenshot of Nexus dashboardScreenshot of Exempt Certificate ManagerScreenshot of Reporting viewScreenshot of Returns dashboardScreenshot of A return screenshot