Takes a load off our minds - especially at month-end!
April 21, 2022
Takes a load off our minds - especially at month-end!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- AvaTax
- Returns
Overall Satisfaction with Avalara
We use Avalara to calculate our sales and seller's taxes on customer invoices and to file our sales tax returns in 15 states. This helps us to focus on our core business functions and leave the administration of tax rules and calculations to the professionals. We don't have to worry about not being compliant or having the wrong tax rate.
- Portal is very helpful, detailed, and user friendly.
- I love how I can generate a lot of different reports on sales and sales tax by state, etc.
- Can reach assistance by phone whenever you have a question.
- Better trained phone assistants - often I figure out a problem I've called after a while of waiting on hold while they check on it.
- Need to be able to mark invoices to Canada as "customer's broker used" so they don't assess GST or HST on these ones. The broker has to collect it by law so it makes the customer get charged twice, which they don't like and refuse to pay us as well as their broker. So we have to process these ones without going through Avalara - kind of a pain.
- Need to show the accrued amount on "tax details and adjustments" for any states where you have filing periods larger than one month. I have to go back in my records to see what the accrued taxes are for previous months to make sure that the tax amount listed is correct before I approve each month.
Do you think Avalara delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Avalara's feature set?
Yes
Did Avalara live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Avalara go as expected?
No
Would you buy Avalara again?
Yes
- Helped us be compliant as we expand into more states.
- Allows us to review/verify tax calculations monthly & be confident they are correct.
- Had a better integration with Rootstock as opposed to Infor, which we now use as our ERP. Wish that the integration with Infor was the same.
- BigCommerce (ecommerce website)
- Roostock/Financial Force
- Infor
Infor is a lot less integrated and takes a lot more admin to do the same things as we did in Rootstock.
- Avalara Returns
Yes, we have benefitted. It takes a lot of pressure off of our month-end processes and we have the peace of mind that they are being filed in a timely manner, and correctly. We don't use CertCapture because we don't feel it's worth the cost; we already have a storage system internally, built on Sharepoint.
Avalara is the only product I have been involved with.