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Avalara helps collect the correct amount of sales tax for each state, county and city. Stores all tax exempt certificates and sends …
Starting at $21 per month
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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 (317)8.888%
- Tax Exemption Processing (218)8.383%
- Tax Data Reporting (267)8.282%
- 3rd-Party Software Integrations (242)7.979%
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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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Avalara Technical Details
| 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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February 02, 2023
Avalara - Like it once you get to know it
- calculation of tax due
February 02, 2023
Avalara Review
- No change really, if any it's spending more time submitting support cases for returns.
February 02, 2023
Avalara Review
- It would take a lot of time to file each state's sales tax return per month.
February 02, 2023
Useful product that saves time but has many areas for improvement
- Time spent maintaining tax rates
- Time spent managing exemption certificates
- Time spent obtaining exemption certificates
February 02, 2023
Use Avalara! You won't be disappointed!
- Saved so much time in sales tax calculations and minimized user erros
- Secure place for exemption certificate management
February 02, 2023
Definitely Recommend AvaTax and Avalara Returns
- Time spent filing returns is less
- Errors on returns are less
- Tax rate errors are less
February 02, 2023
Avalara Review
- I like how easily the tax returns are filed through the SST program.
January 26, 2023
Avalara - Easy to Use and Reliable Reporting
- Avalara has helped considerably with our tax compliance reporting
- Avalara allows our tax compliance to be managed by a small team
- We are able to place heavy reliance on our reporting for tax compliance purposes
December 28, 2022
Avalara Managed Returns - Another Corporate Resource.
- Able to maximize existing resources to collect and remit sales and use taxes.
- Eliminate errors in timing and reporting of sales and use taxes.
- Been a worthwhile investment for the services provided.
November 29, 2022
review
- positive impact it has reduced time spent on filing
November 16, 2022
Time Saving Product
- Filing efficiencies
- Updated tax forms
- Updated EDI/Excel
November 16, 2022
Avalara can help...
- Save company filing time
- Helps to company stay in compliance
November 16, 2022
Avalara Review!
- Reduced time spent on filing returns
- Increased accuracy of each return filed
November 07, 2022
Avalara saved my sanity!!
- We went from a full 40-60 hours to process tax returns to 4-6 hours
- Tax audits have gone down from 3 a year to 1 maybe every 3 years
- Audits that we have had have come back with minimal errors or zero change.
November 04, 2022
Avalara Review
- comfort in knowing that they have a strong knowledge base
- automated sales tax with api to avatax
- automated sales tax reporting
- easy to provide monthly shipment information to avalara for proper reporting
October 27, 2022
Great Product and Service.
- No excessive staff need to remain compliant.
- Easily takes hours off of filing individual returns.
- Minimizes the need for excessive research.
October 26, 2022
Avalara - review from a long-term user
- Streamlined the report consolidation process.
- Saved our ledger owners approximately 16 hours per month due to report features.
- Reduced total number of days required to compile data and file tax returns.
October 26, 2022
Convenience and ease
- Using Avalara to compile the many reports needed to file sales tax returns for the 35 states saves a lot of valuable time for me as I am the only staff member to file the returns.
October 26, 2022
Avalara is the Gold Standard for Tax Compliance
- staff has not changed, hours have gone up, but we realized how out of compliance we were
- filing returns are easier
October 23, 2022
Best investment we could have made in a painful process.
- Drastically reduced time spent.
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
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Verified User
- We went from assessing and filing in 3 states to over 20 and did not need to hire additional staff.
- We significantly reduced the amount of work needed by our accounting firm to file monthly returns.
- Human error has been reduced to less than 5%.
- Much of the process is automated so it eliminates hours and hours of manual processes and entries.
October 19, 2022
Can't get any better than this!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Very positive - am able to complete the tax much more timely and with less stress
October 07, 2022
Great Sofware
- Significant time savings over manual return preparation
- Audit savings thanks to Cert Capture exemption certificate management
- Improved accuracy over a manual process
October 07, 2022
All Around Efficient Program
- We are a small company. We do not need a full-time tax professional on staff. Avalara does everything we need for day-to-day compliance and tax exemptions, which saves us time and money compared to hiring a full-time employee or using a tax professional for small tasks.
October 07, 2022
Avalara Benefits
- Time savings on tax calculations
- Time savings determining tax jurisdictions
- Time savings when filing returns