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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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Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $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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July 13, 2023
Efficient use and ease of product
- Overall we have been pleased with use of the products on the compliance and tax verification front.
July 13, 2023
Streamline your sales taxes
- I am not involved in that area
July 10, 2023
A Powerful Tool for Sales Tax Administration!
- Avalara easily takes the place of two accounting staff members. In an age where labor is difficult to find, this is a huge plus.
- We used to manage our resale certificates in hard copy! Everything is now electronic, saving much time!
- Creating campaigns for certain states and managing them saved a huge amount of administrative expense and time as we had to register in 46 states.
July 10, 2023
Avalara saves time on Sales and Use tax returns
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Using Avalara saved time in filing sales and use tax returns
July 06, 2023
Solid platform for what it is meant to do
- Helped with timely tax calculation
- provided transparency into jurisdiction visibility
- decreased surprises come audit time
- Reduced time in processing sales tax returns
- Cut down on reporting time
- Tax calculation for invoices is done automatically
- Can send emails direct to customers with expiring certificates
July 04, 2023
Avalara Sales Tax Made Easy
- Tax Savings
- Automation
- Audit
July 03, 2023
Great Sales Tax Software in the market today!!!
- Time spent calculaion rates for sure
- Number of staff required
- Ease of use of the software
June 30, 2023
Avalara - a great solution for sales tax compliance
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
- Monthly management of existing sales tax returns went from a full day when we did 13 returns manually to 30 minutes with Avalara doing hundreds of returns for us monthly.
June 27, 2023
I use Avalara and I'm not sure why everyone doesn't!
- It has been very positive in that it has allowed us to be compliant in cases where we may not have otherwise had the resources.
- The negative impact has been that some customers will shop elsewhere if other vendors do not charge tax.
- The value of Avalara is immediate, as we don't have to hire people to do taxes.
June 20, 2023
Get CertCapture & Avatax Together!
- Avalara has decreased the amount of time we spend on filing taxes
- Helps keep all state logins in one area
- Helped us be compliant in all 50 states within a year
May 30, 2023
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- We had to outsource our tax returns - Avalara cost was too high
February 11, 2023
Puts Your Mind at Ease
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
- I am not involved in the area.
February 04, 2023
Confidence in Compliance
- We are positively impacted by Avalara in having a central library to store our certificate files.
- We spend very little time and resources to calculate and compile tax data for filing.
- The electronic filing has helped insure we are on time with our filings and avoiding penalties.
February 04, 2023
Avalara Review
- Prepping for tax returns has been reduced by half.
- Only takes one employee rather than 2. Gives us value time added for the other employee on other tasks.
February 02, 2023
Streamline your sales taxes - worthwhile for companies reaching Nexus in a lot of states
- time freed up for other projects
- confidence the sales taxes are correct makes audit easier
- not worried about a state audit
February 02, 2023
Review
- We didn't have to hire someone in house to handle sales tax
- We still spend a lot of time in house handling sales tax, sales tax compliance, reports, etc.
February 02, 2023
Software is fine, customer service is not
- Decrease in Accounting staff time dedicated monthly to calculating and filing sales taxes.
February 02, 2023
Basic use of Avalara
- Time spend calculating rates
February 02, 2023
Avalara - Improvements needed!
- Avalara helps on sales taxes and reduces the cost of compliance
- Challenge with filing frequency and inflexibility with returns costs us significantly in penalties and fees
February 02, 2023
Vertex vs Avalara
- Lack of follow up support is discouraging
- Ease of use is definitely the upside.
February 02, 2023
This makes what could be a nightmare, bearable
- In my roll of reconciling sales and approving filings it probably saves weeks worth of work every month.
February 02, 2023
Wonderful experience
- Easy filing process
- Avalara software calculated rates for us.
- Only one person was required to process our sales tax returns
February 02, 2023
Sales Tax is complicated - Avalara makes it easier
- Definitely saves time and money on tax calculations