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We use Avalara to generate sales tax liability reports and tax-exempt customer certificates.
Avalara
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Avalara
Starting at $21 per month
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Popular Features
View all 11 featuresSales and Use Taxes (214)
8.7
87%
Tax Exemption Processing (147)
8.1
81%
Tax Data Reporting (180)
8.1
81%
3rd-Party Software Integrations (158)
7.7
77%
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting / Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $21 per month
Features Scorecard
Type of tax
7.3
73%
Tax Reporting & Compliance
7.8
78%
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
- 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
- Yahoo! eCommerce
- part of Yahoo Small Business
- Magento Commerce Cloud (formerly Magento)
- Epicor Manufacturing Express Edition
- Pinnacle Cart
- Quickbooks
Avalara Competitors
Avalara Technical Details
| Deployment Types | SaaS |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Mobile Web |
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Frequently Asked Questions
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.
How much does Avalara cost?
Avalara starts at $21.
What are Avalara's top competitors?
TaxJar and Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud are common alternatives for Avalara.
What is Avalara's best feature?
Reviewers rate Sales and Use Taxes highest, with a score of 8.7.
Who uses Avalara?
The most common users of Avalara are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees) and the Computer Software industry.
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April 23, 2022
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- Cuts down on time spent calculating and filing tax returns
- Cuts down on time spent collecting tax-exempt forms
- Time spent is significantly less
- Number of necessary accounting employees is less by using Avalara
April 21, 2022
If Avalara Owns It-Try It!
- It has cut our consumer use compliance time in half.
- ATR is a great resource for us to find tax rates for our job sites. The ability to switch between address and coordinates has come in handy quite a few times.
- The ATR research has been amazing! Especially the tax answers functionality. When your construction company frequently takes hunting trips and you have to figure out the taxability of one of those trips, it is amazing the amount of work they were able to use to find us the answer!
April 21, 2022
Absolutely Fantastic tool for Sales Tax
- Good resource for tax calc by location
- availability of the rates, and general threshold for nexus
- Not happy with Standard Returns service
April 21, 2022
Great tool for calculating taxes and staying compliant
- Greatly reduced the amount of time for tax filing.
- Great reporting system and easy upload with the legacy feature.
April 21, 2022
Let Avalara take the stress out of sales tax
- Huge positive impact on filing tax returns - saves our accounting department so much time.
- Implementation took longer than expected.
- Avalara offers frequent FREE webinars with tax experts which has helped our understanding of tax compliance so much.
April 21, 2022
Takes a load off our minds - especially at month-end!
- Helped us be compliant as we expand into more states.
- Allows us to review/verify tax calculations monthly & be confident they are correct.
- Had a better integration with Rootstock as opposed to Infor, which we now use as our ERP. Wish that the integration with Infor was the same.
April 21, 2022
I LOVE AVALARA!!!
- Avalara is more efficient than manual computation.
April 20, 2022
Avalara makes my job less taxing. I am able to make my field employees jobs less taxing.
- We recently had an incident in FL where all sales orders over $500 did not calculate tax. This was Avalara's fault. Over 50 of our branches were affected for 2 days. This caused many people on our staff many hours of extra work. We had to have a staff come in over weekend to credit and rebill hundreds of sales orders
March 04, 2022
Very good, but could easily be even better
- The cost of Avalara and some promises by sales team was definitely way, way off from my experience. That was a big turn-off. Better to be honest up front. In hindsight, it felt a bit "car salesman-y" (not a good quality) I feel.
- Easy of access for staff is good.
- We don't use your tax return filing team. We looked into it, but your setup for more basic/simple companies and their tax return process. We are much bigger and complex.
March 04, 2022
Avalara works as explained
- Filing Tax returns has been positive and it helped with assigning staff for more value-added work
- Tax calculation is good
- Address determination can improve
February 21, 2022
Simple and Efficient Tax Solution
- Our operations associate can manage our tax info (lower cost employee)
- Salespeople don't need to think about adding tax, it calculates for them
- We are yet to be audited because our filings are correct
January 27, 2022
Run away.
- The company has lost money using this product
January 20, 2022
WooCommerce Integration Works Well; Dealing With Avalara Will Text Your Patience and Increase Your Stress
- Made sales tax calculation on website automated
- Added frustration to my life
January 17, 2022
Stay away from Avalara for your own good!
- Many hours of extra work due to errors
December 23, 2021
A helpful program that takes the guesswork out of tax filing
- saved time on sales tax filing
December 23, 2021
Avid Avalara User
- It's for sure a huge time saver for our business
December 16, 2021
User Friendly, Hassle-Free Sales Tax SAAS.
- Reduced time spent calculating rates
- Reduced time spent filing and remitting tax returns
December 11, 2021
CATASTROPHIC FAILURES IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE -
- Business collapse due to catastrophic failures that were [in my opinion] due mainly to Avalara.
December 10, 2021
New Guy Likes What He Sees.
- Won't be spending the time or money trying to keep up with sales tax obligations
December 07, 2021
Outstanding product and exceptional Onboarding Specialist
- Saved me a tremendous amount of time.
- Peace of mind in knowing all tax-related matters were taken care of.
December 02, 2021
Avalara is a breeze
- Reviewing time vs cost, Avalara direct pricing is a net positive on our bottom line.
- Currently, from a reporting standpoint, it has not helped us.
- It is currently capturing rates we were not certain if we were calculating correctly. This is a positive for us.
- We are finally able to utilize Avalara as it was meant to be utilized, but we do have some problems.
November 27, 2021
Good small business option
- Far less time spent preparing reports.
- Tax rates are kept updated, so we are spending hours on this task.
November 06, 2021
Grey is the BEST SST and Avalara Rep
- increase [return on investment]