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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 (295)8.888%
- Tax Exemption Processing (201)8.383%
- Tax Data Reporting (248)8.383%
- 3rd-Party Software Integrations (223)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 11, 2019
Avalara
We have only used Avalara.
May 10, 2019
Crush 19 Review
I have not looked at any other systems.
May 10, 2019
Avalara sales and use tax software
I haven't utilized other software packages for sales and use.
May 10, 2019
Avalara review
I have noticed that the sales tax rates not always current with Vertex but they are in Avalara.
May 10, 2019
Avalara Power
- Vertex O Series
For the size of our company and the tools that we need, Avalara was priced better than Vertex or Sabrix and, appeared to be more self-suffient . . . that is more intuitive than the competition. The sales person from Vertex made us feel like we were too little for them. Avalara made us feel like we would be a valued partner from the beginning.
Can't remember the name but the reporting coming out of it was horrible.
- Sovos Compliance
We use them for 1099's but not for sales tax. I would say they are similar but Avalara has a better user interface.
May 10, 2019
Avalara is a thumbs up
Never used any other product. I believe Avalara does the most important thing by calculating tax as accurately as possible which is setting us up for a win if we ever get audited
May 10, 2019
Avalara Fun 2019!
Avalara is doing a lot better in my eyes. Currently we're having to provide location (register agent) address and they do not calculate state we are not exempt in. If we want the service then we will have to add the states on our end and incur addition transaction charges.
May 10, 2019
Admin User Review
I was not part of the decision process.
May 10, 2019
Avalara for Dynamics GP from the beginning
Avalara was easily ahead of the competition. Their ease of integration and reporting put them ahead. CCH at the time had even fewer modules and integrations than Avalara did, which was a consideration as we try to be agile and did not know how long we would stay on our current ERP.
May 10, 2019
Happy with Avalara!
Sovos for TIN Verification. Currently Avalara has a more in-depth product suite.
May 10, 2019
Great product that is leading the industry.
Improved functionality.
May 10, 2019
Great Automation Tax Software
We only use Avalara so far.
May 10, 2019
Orange You Glad You Chose Avalara
We actually did not dive into depth with any other companies. Avalara was the first we explored. We came to the Avalara conference last year and it blew us away so we decided on the spot to move forward with Avalara.
May 10, 2019
Avalara Tax makes our life simpler!
We only reviewed and selected Avalara. We did not look at another provider.
May 09, 2019
Avalara Review
Vertex is a very robust system, however, the company I work for had a bad implementation experience with Vertex in the past.
Our other alternative was to manually set up tax rates and schedules inside the software.
May 09, 2019
Cautiously Optimistic
May 09, 2019
Avalara is a no brainer.
I only have used Avalara, which is great.
Vertex does a better job for large multi-nationals, but I see Avalara growing into a contender in this space.
May 09, 2019
Future of tax!! Must have for E-commerce!
We use Sovos-- specifically, Ship Compliant, to manage all our liquor/beer/wine licenses, permits, and returns. This system also checks our level of compliance across all jurisdictions. Avalara only recently has offered an excise tax solution, and we have been using Ship Compliant for years successfully. All our staff is trained on it, the price point is good, and all our information is already available in their system. We will not likely stop using Ship Compliant, given its ability to tap into the wine industry in addition to compliance.
May 09, 2019
Avalara Review
Avalara was better for our IT department. They wanted the cloud computing (not to maintain on our servers) and 24-hour support.
May 09, 2019
User experience
Avalara is interactive and being updated constantly.