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Tax Exemption Processing (147)
Tax Data Reporting (180)
3rd-Party Software Integrations (158)
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting / Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $21 per month
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Type of tax
Tax Reporting & Compliance
Product Details
What is Avalara?
Avalara aims to help businesses get tax compliance right. Avalara customers can manage tax obligations from state, local, and other tax authorities around the world through the platform. Avalara states that the value proposition for users is that its tool provide efficient and more accurate solutions for managing those requirements.
The Avalara Tax Compliance Suite — Avalara AvaTax, Avalara Returns, and Avalara CertCapture — offers solutions for various transaction taxes, including sales and use, VAT, excise, communications, and others. Through the suite, users can calculate taxes, file and remit returns, and comply with document management requirements. More than 700 integrations are available for accounting systems, ERP and CRM providers, ecommerce platforms, and more. The company also offers Professional Services including Tax Advisory Services, Implementation Services, Managed Services, and Support Plans and Training to help customers prepare for and achieve compliance.
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: Unify sales and use tax calculation, document management, and returns preparation under a single platform.
- Supported: Integrations: AvaTax connects with more than 700 prebuilt integrations to connect with your 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 you are using the most current information.
- Supported: Exemption management: Request certificates from vendors and store them electronically for easy access and to effectively track expiration dates. Send automatic renewal requests 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 you to pay all your returns with a single source of payment.
- Supported: Lodging: Manage lodging tax for your hotel or rental property with a solution that plugs into your reservation software to deliver lodging tax calculations in real time as well as prepares, files, and remits your lodge tax returns.
- Supported: Communications: Delivers tax calculations on a broad array of communications transactions by directly connecting to your current billing or ERP system, or to an in-house build via API.
- Supported: Beverage Alcohol: Simplifying regulatory compliance for suppliers, distributors, and retailers in the beverage alcohol industry.
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Avalara Integrations
- Shift4Shop (formerly 3dcart)
- BigCommerce
- Drupal
- Microsoft Dynamics GP
- NetSuite ERP
- PrestaShop
- QuickBooks Online
- Sage 500 ERP
- Sage Intacct
- SAP Business One
- Shopify Plus
- Zuora
- Stripe
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (formerly Dynamics NAV)
- Yahoo! eCommerce
- part of Yahoo Small Business
- Magento Commerce Cloud (formerly Magento)
- Epicor Manufacturing Express Edition
- Pinnacle Cart
- Quickbooks
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Avalara Technical Details
Deployment Types | SaaS |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Mobile Web |
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- Navision
- Accounting
- ERP
- eCommerce
If Avalara Owns It-Try It!
- We use PENTA, but that is not an option for integration, so we just use uploads
Absolutely Fantastic tool for Sales Tax
- Intact
- QBooks
Great tool for calculating taxes and staying compliant
- Sage (erp)
- Shopify (ecommerce)
Let Avalara take the stress out of sales tax
- Infor Visual ERP
Takes a load off our minds - especially at month-end!
- BigCommerce (ecommerce website)
- Roostock/Financial Force
- Infor
I LOVE AVALARA!!!
- ETERM/ECLIPSE
Avalara makes my job less taxing. I am able to make my field employees jobs less taxing.
- DMSI Agility (ERP)
- Vertex Returns - not good fit
Very good, but could easily be even better
- SAP
Avalara works as explained
- SAP - ERP Software
- B2B Ecommerce
- B2C Ecommerce
Simple and Efficient Tax Solution
- N/A
- N/A
- N/A
Run away.
- WooCommerce
WooCommerce Integration Works Well; Dealing With Avalara Will Text Your Patience and Increase Your Stress
- Woocommerce
- Quickbooks Desktop
Stay away from Avalara for your own good!
- Magento 1.9
- Shopify Basic
A helpful program that takes the guesswork out of tax filing
- Epicor
Avid Avalara User
- Netsuite
- Stripe
User Friendly, Hassle-Free Sales Tax SAAS.
- Netsuite
CATASTROPHIC FAILURES IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE -
- Couldn't even log on to their portal despite numerous requests and promises.
New Guy Likes What He Sees.
- Point of Sale
- Ecommerce
Outstanding product and exceptional Onboarding Specialist
- Accounting.
Avalara is a breeze
- ConnectWise
- QuickBooks
- QuoteWerks
- Microsoft D365
Good small business option
- Ecommerce
Grey is the BEST SST and Avalara Rep
- Bigcommerce