Item: Avalara
Rating: 10
Author: DEBORA CORREA TALUTTO

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Accesso is a software company that uses Avalara to file our sales tax returns in several jurisdictions. Avalara is being used for some of our US entities to collect and file our sales tax.

Pros and Cons

Tax summary
Visibility of transactions
Timely filing

Research
Updates to clients
Multi-entity reporting

Return on Investment

Reduction of time spent calculating tax.
On-time filing of returns.
Increased accuracy and consistency.

Implementation Rating

For software companies, it is very tricky to determine the taxable items, but the Avalara team worked with our finance team to achieve the results we expected.

Systems Integrated With

Sage Intacct

It was difficult to create the integration between our ERP system, Intacct, and Avalara. However, once that was finalized the process has been smooth.

Usability

The service is easy to manage and it has increased our overall compliance, ensuring timely filing of sales tax returns in all jurisdictions.

Alternatives Considered

Vertex Cloud

Likelihood to Recommend

The tool is easy to use, and the reports generated by Avalara are great to provide our management an overview of the compliance.

Great Product

Modules Used

Overall Satisfaction with Avalara