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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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Taxes happen -- everywhere and every day. Good thing Avalara technology makes sure you pay the right amount of tax, every time. Isn't it time we did the same for your business?
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Avalara Integrations
- Shift4Shop (formerly 3dcart)
- 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 (formerly Dynamics NAV)
- 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 (formerly Sovos S1 Platform) 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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December 16, 2021
User Friendly, Hassle-Free Sales Tax SAAS.
- Magento
- Stripe
Integration is still currently in process but so far, it's been a smooth transition.
- Sales Force
- Microsoft D365
This was very difficult. We were supposed to go live in 2018 and did not complete until April 2019.
- Exigo
Not sure
November 11, 2020
Avalara Ava-Easy!
- Quickbooks Online
- X-Cart 5
I was't involved with X-Cart 5, but QuickBooks was fantastic and easy!
August 21, 2020
Look no further than Avalara for your sales tax needs!
- Intacct
The integration for us with Intacct is on the invoice level. It was not difficult to achieve, once we created our custom tax rules and tested them.
August 19, 2020
Making the calculation of sales taxes untaxing
- Dynamics GP
The program had to be added to our system and configured for our documents. It was an easy install, and we have had very few problems over the years.
August 17, 2020
Gotta Have our AvaTax!
- Sage 50 Accounting.
It was easily integrated.
- Netsuite
- Custom Web-Store
Full integration for sales tax calculation on all sales. Also connected with the certificate management portion of Avatax (Avacerts), so exempt customers automatically don't get taxes charged once they're set up. The setup with Netsuite was fairly straightforward. The API portion was more complex and ultimately never got completed, though that was more on our end than Avalara's.
August 13, 2020
Tax compliance made easy
- Epicor ERP
- Agile Freight
We are fully integrated with Epicor, sending purchase data into Avalara and having Epicor pull back tax based upon Avalara's calculations. It makes invoicing and compliance so much easier and reliable.
August 12, 2020
Avalara delivers huge ROI to our business
- NetSuite
- Sage Intacct
We used the standard integration connectors in each instance. Not difficult at all.
August 12, 2020
Avalara is the user friendly option
- Syspro
- Our own proprietary website using the API
The website integration was not difficult. Syspro is heavily integrated, and the connector had some bugs, but I was able to work with them to get most things fixed.
- Epicor Prophet 21 ERP system
Avalara is fully integrated with our Epicor Prophet 21 ERP system.
February 14, 2020
AvaTax for Calculating only
- Hybris
I wasn't involved in this implementation.
February 13, 2020
Avalara is worth considering for your business
- e-PIC
It was challenging to find the correct technical or support person to assist with changes to our API to get our system to talk to AvaTax.
February 12, 2020
Avalara is the Uber of sales tax - it has been transformative in its connector-related focus
- Shopify
- Magento
- Basic website API
February 07, 2020
Time saving tool in sales tax reporting
- Magento
- Will upgrade to Magento 2 this year
This is more of an IT question.
February 04, 2020
Cream of the crop
- Adds
We have to create a CSV file to upload.
February 04, 2020
The good, the bad and . . .
- Solomon 2018
- Field Service module
We had to have an RSM custom builder connector for the Field Service module; it was not part of the standard SL2018 connector.
February 04, 2020
CertCapture
- AS400, a customized program written to fit our company.
our program is in house written software.
February 04, 2020
I use Avalara and I'm not sure why everyone doesn't!
- Big Commerce
- Prowess
- Paywhirl
The integration was quite simple with well-known software products. Paywhirl, in particular, does not integrate.
December 04, 2019
Avalara simplifies sales tax calculations and filings.
- Shopify
- Amazon
Shopify integration is super easy. Amazon requires manual transaction uploads.
October 25, 2019
Easy to use!
- We have integrated with E-Automate.
This was completed before I came on board.
October 03, 2019
Mediocre at best
- Magento
- NetSuite
July 26, 2019
Avalara - Automating sales tax and use tax
- Zuora
- SalesForce
- Quickbooks
- NetSuite
The time it took to integrate Zuora with Avalara was about 60 days. The Zuora connector to Avalara needed to be purchased in order to have APIs push the client's address to AvaTax to correctly calculate sales tax owed.