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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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May 10, 2019
Orange You Glad You Chose Avalara
- Shopify
Integration with Shopify was incredibly easy as they had it pre-built into Shopify's implementation process.
May 10, 2019
Avalara Tax makes our life simpler!
- Magento
- Epicor P21
We just started so we are at the very beginning of implementation.
May 09, 2019
Avalara Review
- Hybris
- SAP ECC
Integrating these with Avatax and CertCapture. Implementation went very quickly, however, we have some concerns that set up might have been rushed to meet deadline goals.
- Microsoft Dynamics GP
It was not difficult to achieve. The data settings requirements were clear and quick to implement.
May 09, 2019
Approachable, Adaptable Avalara
- Oracle (11i)
- Microsoft Dynamics AX (in progress)
- Frontier (in progress)
Relatively surface-level integrations. A decent amount of manual work was done first to allow several data streams to be in a uniform format before import. We worked with third-party to assist integration, so it was not too difficult.
May 09, 2019
Cautiously Optimistic
- Shopify Plus
- NetSuite OneWorld
Complex integrations that were difficult because of our needs and the amount of time needed to resolve the integration.
May 09, 2019
Avalara is a no brainer.
- Microsoft Dynamics GP (aka Great Plains)
I was not involved in the integration process.
May 09, 2019
Useful Product with Room for Improvement
- Fuel tax calculations
- Automation Anywhere
- UiPath
So far the drop-down menus have provided the only challenge, but otherwise, Avalara has worked well with various automation software.
- Magento
- Aria
- Netsuite
No information in this area.
May 09, 2019
Future of tax!! Must have for E-commerce!
- Magento
- Ship Compliant
- Counterpoint
- B-Loyal
Once we had our products mapped, the implementation was not difficult to achieve.
May 09, 2019
Avalara Review
- Magento
- Oracle
Magento was super easy and fully integrated. Oracle also fully integrated, but much more complex. We have an e-commerce platform there as well, and our operating system and financial transactions all run through there. A third-party provider was brought in, so it was a challenge.
May 09, 2019
User experience
- Netsuite
It calculates the sales tax, and it's still not perfect, so we are still working on it and not expending Avalara's use. We also use certification capture and it is easy to use.
May 09, 2019
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- EBS
We tested the integration with EBS for a month and it worked well. It's now fully integrated. They provided a test database to help with integration, and it was great.
May 09, 2019
New implementation continues to be a struggle
- Epicor Eclipse
It is a continual struggle. There's been difficulty finding out if issues are part of Eclipse or part of Avalara. Avalara tends to push every question back to Epicor/Eclipse -- they are helpful to a point, but still push some issues back to Avalara.
May 09, 2019
Avalara is crushing it!!
- EBS
I was not involved in the implementation, but the team communicated that it was seamless.
May 09, 2019
Show me why should I stay
- AvaTax with our own company system
API set up was not difficult.
- Mincron/Kerridge Systems
- Magento
Due to the unpopular scale of our system, implementation took time to complete as a waiting game. We are in a similar waiting game as we wait for Cert Capture to come onboard....there's no bridge currently in place.
May 09, 2019
Useful Technology, but Some Support Issues
- FinancialForce
- NetSuite
Both integrations are OOTB and were very easy to set up once we were able to get the information on how to do so from our account team.
Score 10 out of 10
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- Sage 100
- Website Pipeline
- CimCloud
Fully integrated by outside IT.
April 22, 2019
AvaTax makes life easy for my sales team!
- Quosal Sell - Connectwise
Easy. The integration allows for the generation and calculation of applicable tax on the products and services we sell. This information is on all of our quotes.
- NetSuite
Avalara has a bundle that can be downloaded within NetSuite and the configuration is pretty quick and easy.
April 19, 2019
Avalara makes taxing easy!
- Epicor ERP
- Amazon Web Store
Epicor ERP was as simple as putting in the url and credentials. Web store was a little more work but up and running in less than a day.
April 17, 2019
It was easy
- We only run SAGE 100 ERP, we do not do e-commerce
Avatax is totally integrated and it was a very easy to get started
April 17, 2019
AvaTax and 3dCart plug and play
- 3dCart ecommerce software
- Conetic 6 ERP software
With 3dCart it was just an add-on plug-in. The AvaTax onboarding team got us up and running in minutes.
The API used to integrate our ERP was straight forward. Coding, testing and go-live in under 30 days.
The API used to integrate our ERP was straight forward. Coding, testing and go-live in under 30 days.
April 17, 2019
Avalara AvaTax takes the Hassle out of Sales Taxes
- We have integrated Avalara AvaTax with our QuickBooks accounting system.
It was very easy to integrate. We were up and running in a day.