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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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November 17, 2020
Avatax and Returns Management- Avalara has been a great solution!
- Time spent calc.rates
- Filing the returns
- Number of staff required
November 17, 2020
Avala - IMO
- The SST program has decreased our time spent on sales tax dramatically.
November 17, 2020
A+ Avalara
- Time saved spent calculating and filing returns
- No need for a staff member to be and "expert" and current with tax laws state wide
- Time saving on filing taxes and keeping updated on changing tax laws
November 17, 2020
Great peace of mind that returns and certificates will be file and managed correctly.
- Amount of transactions would have been a nightmare to handle in-house
- The different jurisdiction tax rate management is complex and give us peace of mind to be handled through AvaTax
- Exemption Certificate management would have definitely need another person to handle-Monetary savings both Sales and Use and Exemption Management.
November 17, 2020
This product saves us money and time!
- Saved me so many hours, and allows me to use my time for more productive/money making activities than filling out returns and updating tax tables.
November 17, 2020
Sales Tax Simplified
- We still have to have 1 dedicated person to validate certificates before getting to Cert Capture. Would like to eliminate this step.
- Time savings as we don't need to calculate taxes for every area of delivery
- Returns are produced and reconciled timely.
- We were audited by California and we had 2 years in Avalara and 1 year not. The Avalara information was much easier and quicker to retrieve.
- We have not been audited since we implemented Cert Capture, but I am sure the auditor will be much happier with the certs we have on file in Cert Capture as opposed to the 98 notebook binders we had in the past.
- CRUSH is a must, we have come back with ideas and uses that we maybe were not aware of before going. Every CRUSH we have attended has more than paid for itself.
November 17, 2020
New user, happy with the rise in efficiency and accuracy of our reporting process so far
- Time spent calculating rates
- Accuracy of tax addressing
- More information available on reporting
- Less staff needed to file returns
November 17, 2020
Avalara - value and compliance
- While setting up Avalara Cert Capture is a pretty long process, the time it has saved us in filing returns is 40 hours a month.
November 17, 2020
The Software is Helpful - Implementation was immensely painful
- This has established controls in our system saving numerous hours of auditing and comfortability around our tax calculations.
- We were not given accurate pricing for our company's usage, and could not get a hold of our account manager for months at a time.
November 17, 2020
WE LOVE AVALARA!
- Saved us time each day/week calculating taxes. Saves sales team and finance team time
- Automation of process for invoice generation
- Ability for expertise we couldn't affort in-house
November 17, 2020
Avalara - a "no brainer" for business
- Saved personnel time in calculating and filing taxes.
- Saving on audit fees by being organized.
- Allow us to spend more time on increasing business and not worrying about tax etc.
November 17, 2020
Loving Avalara!
- Avalara makes it very easy to reconcile the sales tax values to our ERP system.
- Makes all of our filings go super quick even though we have a tighter timeline to complete the reconciliation.
- Replacing a FTE person
- Getting the tax right on customer forms the first time
November 17, 2020
Good Tax Assistance Company
- No longer need to have 1 person completed dedicated to getting everything reported correctly and timely.
November 17, 2020
Sales and Use tax experience in Avalara
- Time saved calculating tax
- Number of staff required decreased
- Reduced fees from IRS
November 14, 2020
Avalara & AvaTax Benefits for Remote Sellers
- The time spent calculating rates for our staff has been cut completely
- The time spent filing tax returns has been cut by 75%
- We have one staff member required for filing tax returns, and one is required for calculating rates
November 14, 2020
Great service for sales tax
- No need to hire additional staff
- File and pay in all jurisdictions
- No need to know all tax rates
November 13, 2020
Strong product with room for improvement in certain areas
- It has helped with our documentation for audit
- It has helped with our understanding of tax laws
- It has helped with collection/storage of exemption certificates
November 13, 2020
Avalara is Great
- Time spent on tax returns
- Compliance with state laws
- Improved our effectiveness at taxing customers appropriately
November 13, 2020
Avalara takes "taxing" out of taxes
- Saves time in monthly calculations
November 13, 2020
Avalara taxing can relieve some tax stress
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
- This definitely saves time in calculating tax and also in getting the correct tax rates based on the address which can validated to be correct, and the date in which the taxing is taking place to make sure you are using the correct rate.
- As I am an the only one that does both the customer and vendor exemptions, on top of other duties (my manager is my backup), this allows me to focus more on the other duties by saving time.
- For compiling and completing returns since I am the only employee that does these, and we are in nearly every state, the data that I get allows me to complete these on time. Sometimes it takes me to the exact due dates but I have done this before without the aid of a taxing software and this is a big benefit in being able to get accurate reports.
November 12, 2020
Avalara Helps with the Ups and Downs of Tax Compliance
- Positive- freeing up employees and man hours; minimal interaction required
- Positive- in compliance, staying abreast of ever-changing tax requirements from state to state; timeliness
- Positive- integrating with existing software and providing avenues to save time and money
November 12, 2020
Want more time for other things? Then use Avalara!
- Tracking jurisdictional tax rates in house would be a full-time job, at a minimum. So by using Avalara, we are definitely saving time in this regard in addition to ensuring we have the most accurate information available.