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Avalara

Overview

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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Recent Reviews

Avalara Review

7 out of 10
February 29, 2024
Incentivized
We use Avalara to track our sales tax eligible sales and calculating the correct amount of sales tax that should be charged and remitted …
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Indirect Tax

9 out of 10
December 05, 2023
Incentivized
I played a pivotal role in implementing AvaTax at Alchemee. I used to manage the system. We filed our US and Canadian returns through this …
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Great!

10 out of 10
December 05, 2023
Incentivized
We use Avalara for our sales tax compliance. Avalara is excellent at tracking the data necessary to fill out the sales tax returns. We …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Sales and Use Taxes (295)
    8.8
    88%
  • Tax Exemption Processing (201)
    8.3
    83%
  • Tax Data Reporting (248)
    8.3
    83%
  • 3rd-Party Software Integrations (223)
    8.0
    80%

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Pricing

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $21 per month
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Product Demos

Avalara AvaTax Demo

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Features

Type of tax

A list of the different types of taxes that can be filed using tax compliance software.

8.1
Avg 8.4

Tax Reporting & Compliance

Activities relating to tax filing, reporting, document management, and exemption certificate processing.

8.1
Avg 8.4
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Product Details

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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Why Avalara?

Avalara Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Avalara's AvaTax service to calculate our sales tax for our ecommerce website. We use the available reporting to assist in our in-house preparation of our state returns. Eventually, we intend to utilize Avalara for our return preparation and exemption certificate management software (CertCapture), and based on our past experience with Avalara, we are confident in Avalara's capabilities.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a local printer [that provides] printing service for nonprofits, restaurants, retailers, higher education institutions, manufacturers, and more. We use Avalara for calculating sales tax in the states we have Nexus in. We are having Avalara integrated with the MIS we use called EPMS, so our CSRs and Accounting Department can easily create an invoice on EPMS with tax calculated.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Avalara for our sales, which is company-wide. It is used to calculate tax and submit sales tax returns in all of the states that we are currently registered in. We intend to also use Avalara's system, CertCapture, to manage exemption certificates, which we are just beginning.
November 12, 2020

Intuitive Products

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Avalara has a whole suite of products that helps manage our compliance. At our company we have to file in multiple states and jurisdictions. AvaTax seamlessly allows us to add new states or jurisdictions. This was particularly helpful in 2019 when we added 70+ towns/cities in Colorado to our sales tax remittance schedules. It's nice to reconcile Avalara and trust that they will file in all the areas we request. Our AP department uses CertCapture to organize 1099s, which they love since you can run scheduled campaigns to get updated forms.
November 12, 2020

Easy

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Avalara AvaTax helps support our sales tax compliance and is used across the whole organization. It is working concurrently with our sales webstore platform providing real time comprehensive sales tax calculation. The AvaTax functions not only calculate sales tax, it file and remit returns. Very happy with this product because it relieved my teams from spending hours bogging down on manual details calculations and preparation as well as monitoring the constant changing of states regulations.
November 12, 2020

Avalara Tax Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Avalara is being used for sales tax calculation when selling products. Avalara streamlines the tax calculations by eliminating the need for our company to enter the tax level and percentages by state, city and county, an activity that can be time-consuming and prone-error. Also, Avalara provides excellent support when any issue arises between our ERP and Avalara.
November 12, 2020

Peace of Mind!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am an accounting department of one and Avalara helps me immensely to be sales tax compliant. It is used on every level of our business, whether exempt or taxable sales. Avalara figures sales tax on a transaction level and provides reporting to make filing sales tax accurate and timely. Keeping track of sales tax liability is increasingly difficult as time goes on and Avalara helps alleviate stress related to the entire process.
November 12, 2020

Avalara Product Review

Zachary Walz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We use Avalara for the whole organization. We use it to determine the taxability of a transaction and use it to file sales tax returns. We use it to save time in filing our returns and to remove the human element of interpreting the taxability of a sales. It frees up time that was previously used to research new sales tax laws, because Avalara does this for you.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using it in our ecommerce system to calculate sales tax. One of our companies also use the tax returns filing module. AvaTax allows us to enter the states with nexus and it calculates the correct sales tax. We also use it to tell us when we are reaching nexus in other states.
November 11, 2020

Avalara Ava-Easy!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use quite a few of the Avalara services. AvaTax is being used for tax calculation for our online store and QuickBooks invoicing. We also use CertCapture for exemptions and tax compliance for the whole organization.
We also use Avalara's tax returns and registration.
Summer Hagge | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Avalara company-wide to calculate sales tax on our invoices for sales, rentals, repairs, consulting and training, software, and warranties. We also have Avalara remit our returns to our taxing authorities. This has ensured that we remit exactly what we collect, as well as that we are collecting exactly what we should be.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Avalara is used to process our sales tax across the country. We also use cert capture to track and record our tax exempt and resale certificates. It helps us accurately track, record and pay our sales tax due. Additionally it removed the errors we had with incorrect sales tax rates being charged to our customers.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the AvaTax module of Avalara and interface it with Intacct to create sales tax line items on our Intacct invoices and to create Sales Tax by Location reports in Intacct and Avalara. Our corporate parent's Indirect Tax department uses the Avalara sales tax calculations to file sales tax returns in all states that we have nexus in. Given the complicated calculations of some states such as Texas, we could not do any of this without Avalara software. Avalara is very easy to use, and we can easily add states or exempt customers who send us sales tax exemption certificates. Avalara has taken the risk out of sales tax calculation and return filing, which we are forever grateful for. In addition, I use Avalara's knowledge base on sales tax issues to make sure that I stay current on the latest thinking. I have found their articles and videos very easy to understand and informative for a non-tax expert. Thanks Avalara, for making my life easier!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We sell in all 50 states. Avalara is a part of our ERP software (Dynamics GP). We use it to calculate sales taxes on our quotes, sales orders, and invoicing. It also makes it easy for our sales team to quote the correct sales tax before the order is placed.
August 17, 2020

Gotta Have our AvaTax!

Lori Clark | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Avalara AvaTax in our accounting department. It supplies us the tools to charge our customer's the proper sales and use tax and then helps us submit the correct amount to the correct taxing authority. It keeps us on track and accurate, without the overwhelming effort to maintain the tax records.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Avalara Avatax is being used in our business to correctly calculate sales tax on all sales made within states in which we have nexus. We also use the supplementary offerings from Avalara to manage our resale certificates and customer sales tax exemptions digitally, as well as Avalara's filing service. The problems addressed by this are that we never have to worry about incorrect calculation of sales taxes, our certificates are all stored digitally in one place in case of an audit, and our returns are filed correctly by a company with a lot of experience in doing so.
Sonny Spencer, ACA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Avalara to automate sales tax calculations on our sales invoices to customers in the US. Avalara in turn file our monthly/quarterly state tax returns for us and remit payment on our behalf.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is currently being used only by our accounting department. We will be adding the functionality to allow Customer Service to view exemption status in CertCapture soon. We use it to collect sales tax, exemptions, and file tax returns for the 18 (soon to be 24) states we are registered in.
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