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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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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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September 29, 2023
The good, the bad and . . .
Nexus alerts and standard reports available to show sales & tax by state.
August 22, 2023
Great Time Saving Tool
We have not had the opportunity to use this portion of the service yet.
June 20, 2023
Get CertCapture & Avatax Together!
No we were all already registered
February 11, 2023
Puts Your Mind at Ease
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
They have filed all returns and have held webinars for any new information.
November 04, 2022
Avalara Review
Avalara assists only in the sense that they help to make the information available. I wish there was a stronger knowledge base and ability to give advice when it comes to the economic nexus laws.
October 19, 2022
If your e-commerce is growing, it helps to know what your owing! Avalara does it all.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Avalara lets us know when we are getting close to having economic nexus in a state. The product keeps up with thresholds and all the changes in tax rates of individual jurisdictions, so we don't have to.
October 19, 2022
Can't get any better than this!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I'm the CFO of an organization that sells Personal Medical Devices world wide. Since the change in Wayfair vs South Dakota, we went from collecting sales taxes in one state, to now collecting taxes in 23 different states. This just wouldn't be possible without the professional help that Avalara has given us. Not only have we already used them for Sales Tax Returns in Texas for over 10 years, but now they have helped me set up the other 22 states and in the last 2 years we also had them help us with our Consumer Use Tax. Since using the ACU program, I know I can reset assured knowing that we are paying the correct amount of taxes and not have to worry that if the next big audit occurs, how many hundreds of thousands of dollars is that going to hit our company for. Many thanks to Avalara!
October 04, 2022
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Yes, by alerting to when Nexus is reached or near reached
July 12, 2022
Tax compliance made easy
As our company has Nexus in all states, Avalara has helped us to quickly and efficiently collect and remit the appropriate tax in all states. If we had to do any returns manually it would take more than 1 individual calculating and processing these as a full time job. Avalara keeps our company tax compliant and helps us to ace audits with very little hardship.
Yes, Avalara has kept us compliant in the 40 states which we have nexus and need to file taxes. Avalara also keeps us up to date with any upcoming tax laws that will come into effect. Avalara keeps track of your progress towards obtaining nexus in a particular state and suggest on when to apply for a sales tax license.
October 05, 2021
Avalara to the future
Yes, Avalara has maintain compliance across state line in light of new economic nexus laws by making us aware of the potential nexus in our business. Avalara has assisted us by keeping us up to date with current tax law legislation ensuring we are ahead of the comnpliance and necessary requirement.
August 21, 2020
Look no further than Avalara for your sales tax needs!
Yes, without Avalara, we would not be able to keep up with all the constantly changing tax rules from the various states. All we have to do is mark in the settings which states we have Nexus in, and which jurisdictions if there are county or city taxes, and then Avalara does the rest. It's like magic.
August 19, 2020
Making the calculation of sales taxes untaxing
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We sell in all 50 states. Trying to keep up with all of the updates and changes for all 50 states would be exhausting. Avalara keeps us posted on any changes that might effect us and allows us to continue working without worrying about charging the wrong rates.
February 14, 2020
A Good Product For Certain Industries
In short, yes, Avalara has assisted us in interpreting and applying the new economic nexus laws. We use Avalara to determine what thresholds we need to consider in states that we do have nexus and we are uncertain if we will go well over any reasonable threshold. Avalara has provided us with our necessary answers.
February 04, 2020
Cream of the crop
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I use their changed monthly
February 04, 2020
CertCapture
it provides the rules across state
May 10, 2019
Avalara Power
Wayfair has required us to increase our footprint. Without Avalara there is no way that we could have kept up with the number of new states.
April 22, 2019
AvaTax makes life easy for my sales team!
Avalara helps becasue it is always up to date. I don't have to worry about changing tax rates as it all happens for me in the background. If I had to keep up with all of the states/counties and their tax rates I may as well do it manually. With Avalara I don't have to worry about any of that...just selling product!
With the passage of Wayfair by the Supreme Court during 2018, it's important to stay up-to-date with the constantly changing economic nexus standards that are being implemented by state legislators. Avalara has been integral to our ability to quickly recognize when we have triggered an economic nexus threshold. Avalara' system provides automatic notifications through the dashboard when our year-to-date revenue in a given state exceeds the established economic nexus threshhold in order to register in a timely manner.
April 17, 2019
AvaTax and 3dCart plug and play
They take care of monitoring the tax changes in the 10,000+ taxing jurisdictions - so I don't have to.
April 17, 2019
Avalara AvaTax takes the Hassle out of Sales Taxes
April 16, 2019
Avalara Review
The info is ALWAYS up to date and this allows us to keep moving without slowing down.