Avalara Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Avalara AvaTax for sales tax filing and compliance. We use the exemption certificate management. We also used Avalara track1099 for filing and mailing. The product helps us maintain compliance and educates us on nexus as well as helps keep historical data of our sales per state. The exemption certificate management helps us validate certificates and keeps track of expirations.

Likelihood to Recommend

We have seen tremendous benefits from using Avalara AvaTax, especially in managing our returns. I particularly appreciate the nexus map feature, which is very helpful for tracking our obligations across different states. Overall, Avalara has provided excellent support in maintaining tax compliance. We have also utilized the VDA (Voluntary Disclosure Agreement) program for states where we previously were not aware of our filing requirements, which has been extremely valuable.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I work in the corporate office, where we handle sales and use tax for over 50 different companies. We utilize Avalara for tax calculations and storing exemption certificates for all of our business units. Each business unit has unique circumstances when it comes to taxation, and we have been able to set up custom rules for each one. This enables us to calculate accurate tax amounts on all our invoices.

Likelihood to Recommend

I find Avalara well-suited in the majority of situations when it comes to tax calculation. The only issues we run into are with more complex tax situations. It may be less appropriate for invoices that have significant variability that affects taxability. For example, if there is a business that sometimes is an installer and other times is not, there may need to be different tax codes set up for each situation. This requires the users to know how tax needs to be charged in different situations, rather than having Avalara do this automatically.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Avalara for all our monthly sales tax filing. We reconcile our sales tax and sales using Avalara reports. Avalara helps us keep sales tax as efficient and accurate as possible, maintaining around 40+ sales tax returns for us each month. We also use the exemption certificate management. This helps us in maintaining exemptions certificates for invoicing. Having an API that communicates with Avalara helps in reducing invoice processing times and creates more accurate sales tax charges to customers.

Likelihood to Recommend

Avalara's best use is monthly sales tax prep. The ease of use with an API to process and charge sales tax makes not only the sales tax prep quick and easy but also helps in accurate and timely invoicing.

I think Avalara's help with tax notices and issues with individual states can sometimes be hard to deal with.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for our retail sales across the country and the proper calculation of that sales tax. We also use the Exemption Certificate Mgmt for the entities which claim tax exemption status. Lastly, we use it for 1099 purposes.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's well suited in our ERP providing all the appropriate ship to information is given. Not great if the customer is exempt.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Avalara at ClickBank.com to ensure we correctly calculate sales/use tax and VAT on all of our worldwide sales. We know Avalara has up-to-the-minute correct data to ensure the right rate is used for the product destination.<div>at the right rate for the goods and services we sell</div>

Likelihood to Recommend

Avalara is well suited for the e-commerce community

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Avalara is being used across the whole organization. Since nexus, the company is registered in about 40 states and remits sales and use tax to multiple jurisdictions.

Likelihood to Recommend

Suited for regular sales tax calculations across the world. Use tax for construction projects in other states is difficult to calculate. The best software to help the company be compliant in sales tax

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use CertCapture/ECM used to store customer certificates. We have nearly 500 k tax documents which would be hard to maintain and organize within a shared folder or other document repository. It allows us to track expiration dates and quickly respond to tax audit requests.

Likelihood to Recommend

Organizes tax documents well and strives to provide a user friendly experience with the system. Support systems need improvement.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our company, we have a diverse set of products and services with complicated taxability. It would be a full-time job to assign the proper tax codes to each item or service and remit to each state. Avalara makes this process very simple and reduces the time spent each month to an hour or two instead of a week spent manually calculating.

Likelihood to Recommend

Avalara is a great addition to an organization if you are spending more than an hour calculating monthly sales and use tax submissions. They accurately pull your data and have found areas of issue that we didn't know existed, saving us money in the long run instead of discovering in an audit.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

When the Supreme Court ruled in favor of SD, in the South Dakota v. Wayfair case in 2018- we knew our company would not be able to comply with state sales tax without a tech solution. After looking at a lot of options, Avalara was the only option that made sense for us.

Likelihood to Recommend

Avalara is great in the sales tax area, 1099s, and their property tax solution is also great. Their exemption certificate solution is good, and the fact that it is connected to the sales tax solution is very convenient. However, when Avalara acquired TTR, they removed the automation to seemingly provide an upcharge service to do the certificate review for you.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Avalara to compute the sales tax on our invoices, including our e-commerce platforms. We also use it to collect and maintain exemption certificates and to file some of our more tedious sales tax returns on our behalf.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think it does a great job ensuring our sales tax is charged accurately, and I love the time we will save once our exemption certificate management software is fully up and running.