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Vertex

Overview

What is Vertex?

Vertex combines tax research with technology to improve tax accuracy and consistency on sales and purchase transactions. The automation aims to support high volume and complex transactions at speed and scale to streamline internal processes and improve audit performance. Integrations to ERP, e-commerce,…

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Recent Reviews

My Vertex Experience

10 out of 10
February 29, 2024
Incentivized
My organization is using both Vertex O and Vertex Returns and reporting for calculating, validating, and reporting sales tax and VAT. We …
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E-Filing options to EU

10 out of 10
February 23, 2024
Incentivized
We are using for VAT in EMEA region for both sales and purchases to determine taxation on invoices, validate and prepare the VAT returns …
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Satisfied

9 out of 10
May 22, 2023
Incentivized
We use Vertex for sales and purchases transactions as well. Regarding to tax types we use it for US sales tax, use tax and value added tax …
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Popular Features

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  • Sales and Use Taxes (120)
    9.4
    94%
  • Geolocation for Tax Assessment (85)
    9.4
    94%
  • Tax Data Reporting (103)
    9.1
    91%
  • Tax Exemption Processing (86)
    8.3
    83%

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Pricing

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What is Vertex?

Vertex combines tax research with technology to improve tax accuracy and consistency on sales and purchase transactions. The automation aims to support high volume and complex transactions at speed and scale to streamline internal processes and improve audit performance. Integrations to ERP, e…

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  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.vertexinc.com/solutions

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

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Features

Type of tax

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

8.8
Avg 8.4

Tax Reporting & Compliance

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

8.5
Avg 8.4
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Product Details

What is Vertex?

Vertex combines tax research with technology to improve tax accuracy and consistency on sales and purchase transactions. The automation aims to support high volume and complex transactions at speed and scale to streamline internal processes and improve audit performance. Integrations to ERP, e-commerce, procurement, and other billing systems enables a single tax engine to seamlessly support a growing business. In addition to tax determination, Vertex provides tools and services to automate and streamline exemption certificate management and compliance filings.

Vertex Features

Type of tax Features

  • Supported: Sales and Use Taxes
  • Supported: Cross-border Taxes
  • Supported: VAT / GST 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

Vertex Screenshots

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Vertex Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesNorth America, EMEA, Central/South America, Asia Pacific
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

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Reviewers rate Cross-border Taxes highest, with a score of 9.8.

The most common users of Vertex are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Accuracy of tax determination to jurisdictional level
  • Address Cleansing
  • Report generation - easily created and understood
  • Ability to create tax rule changes
  • Simple Exemption Certificate record creation
  • Contracted with Vertex Managed Returns for US & CA reporting
  • Simplicity of managing Drivers & Mappings
  • Vertex University
  • Vertex Annual Exchange
  • Log Files Area - Ability to search for a sales order in real time rather than pulling several files to find one sales order - this will help during live testing rather than waiting until the sales order is posted to the database.
February 29, 2024

My Vertex Experience

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Sales tax calculation on US transaction
  • VAT tax calculation and validation on EMEIA and APAC region
  • Supports SII reporting for Spain
  • Support e-filing for the UK
  • Returns and reporting
  • E-invoicing solution
  • Real-time reporting
  • Italy's annual declaration form
February 23, 2024

E-Filing options to EU

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Automatically fill in the return forms
  • Validation AP bookings
  • Determining the correct tax on sales/purchases
  • Direct E-filing options for most of the EU countries are missing
January 16, 2024

Vertex Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Transaction test works good for deciding the tax rate/taxability of product/service.
  • There is a delay with customer service. Usually takes a few days to get a response. Would be better to have a quicker turnaround time.
October 10, 2023

Vertex Rates High

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Current tax rates for invoicing
  • Ability to override tax
  • Easy interface to Vertex Returns
  • More streamlined flow for beverage (sugar tax) taxation
  • Easier creation of tax assist rules
  • More configuration setup control at the user level
  • Easier way to locate user defined tax rules
  • Easier navigation to view mappings and how individual rules for states
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Keeps up on the tax law, frequently updating they system to reflect changes.
  • Vertex has great reporting capabilities that enables us to use data for trends in purchases, managing licensing requirements, and carries over into the income tax reports for apportionment requirements.
  • Innovative - continually improving their processes, including feedback from customers to develop the next new tool to make tax calculation and reporting easier.
  • Some of the reporting tools are only usable to those on the Cloud platform.
  • A lot of the import/export/ and monthly reporting processes could be automated.
  • While this is minor - the app is missing some features that would add convenience. For example, the ability to choose multiple reports to delete at once. Currently you can delete one report or all reports - but can't choose a group. You can't create groups or favorites in your profile. If I'm running reports for my US tax, I have to go through the entire list. There isn't a shortcut that allows me to only access those reports.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Tax calculation in case of triangulation.
  • Tax automation in case of customer certificates.
  • Automated tax rate update.
  • With Tax Assist Rules, you can easily get your tax calculation system fitted to country-specific requirements.
  • Reporting: Vertex VAT Compliance is not fully ready to support all EU country's requirements.
  • Data storage.
  • Online reporting in VVC: many countries require to report VAT Declaration in an electronic way. This function is still missing for some of the countries from VVC.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Vertex allows for a methodical and manageable method to configure taxing decisions.
  • Vertex can be trusted to produce the same result every time.
  • Vertex Support response time is very timely.
  • Vertex seems to have a lot of scheduled maintenance, more so than about 5-10 years ago.
  • Communicating with the On-Demand Team is cumbersome. Once an issue is raised requiring On-Demand Team investigation or response, they will respond but you have to go through support for any follow-ups.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Vertex O Series recognizes all tax rate changes, which is very useful when you're operating in multiple jurisdictions.
  • Vertex O Series helps us to deal with tax holidays. This has saved us a lot of time and gives us confidence that we are getting tax right during these tax holidays.
  • It would be helpful if Vertex O Series would add new taxability categories. For our company specifically this would include some items such as motorized bicycles and children's hunting clothing.
  • Working with Vertex Customer Support is sometimes a struggle. I feel that they are not always able to understand & effectively help with complex issues.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Highly customizable
  • In depth reporting
  • Wide variety of taxability categories
  • Library of support articles/information can be difficult to search through
  • Customer support for issues sometimes requires follow ups
  • Customization can lead to complexity
May 01, 2023

Vertex Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • tax rate updates are timely
  • customer support does a good job with inquries
  • MSO tax compliance team is amazing
  • exporting our company specific tax matrix from O Series
  • canned reports within O Series
  • flow chart of where to find things in O Series portal
April 21, 2023

Vertex O Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Tax determination and calculation on AR transacitons
  • Managing different type of customer exemptions in O Series
  • Automation of U.S. sales and use tax returns
  • Provides a solution that is business user friendly (lowers reliance on IT for tax setups)
  • Automation of global VAT/GST returns (O Series and VVC are not compatible and many setups are needed in VVC to map data from O Series to returns in VVC)
  • Solution for India GST (Our understanding is that currently Vertex O series cannot be used with Oracle r12 in India)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ability to customize with our complex business needs
  • Customer Support is focused on our business needs
  • Easy to install on BigCommerce
  • Detailed instructions on installation
  • Installation with Netsuite was more complex (partly because that's how Netsuite is)
  • Sometimes making a sales order not taxable (since we have exempt customers) can take longer than it should
  • Sometimes the tax is different between our two platforms, and it can take some effort to make it match
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ease of use for creating new databases
  • Quickly provide detailed reports for all 50 states in exportable PDF format
  • Customer support is on point and able to quickly resolve any issues
  • Make full installation packages available at each release instead of yearly.
  • Not require incrementally stepping through updates. I understand the reason behind it, but if you have to install a new copy in later part of the year you have to step through Jan->current month updates one by one and update every database. For large number of databases, it could take 5-20 minutes each time and then multiplied by number of months.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Calculate tax due
  • create an easy upload file for returns
  • keeps updated on rate changes
  • Critical changes! I feel they should be more aware of changes in the states. Sometimes we get these changes from them after we file our returns! I feel they should be up on any changes that are important for returns.
  • Support is a big issue. Vertex used to be excellent with their support. When I called with a question I felt I was speaking to a professional who knows the product inside and out. Now when I call I get someone who says "That's a realy good question I will have to look into that" Then days go by before I get an answer. Sometimes I don't get an answer at all. This was not the case in prior years.
March 03, 2023

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Venkat Annade | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Monthly update
  • Premium support
  • Tool is very handy that you could utilize for your customization.
  • Straight Report of the rates by the country and product
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