Avalara
Updated October 28, 2025

Avalara

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • AvaTax
  • Returns
  • CertCapture

Overall Satisfaction with Avalara

Avalara calculates sales tax on our transactions and processes our returns. We also use Avalara to manage our exemption certificates, automatically send out requests for expiring certificates and send out campaigns.

Pros

  • communication with CAM
  • calculations

Cons

  • certificates at a local level
  • accuracy
  • time spent on returns
  • less staffing required
  • infor
  • netsuite
  • shopify
  • amazon
Avalara isn't very helpful when it comes to integration issues. The response has been to ask the other service.
Some of the helpful features of certcapture were removed with ECM
Avalara Returns
CertCapture
Professional Services
having Avalara file our returns saves us a lot of time and are more accurate than completing them manually ourselves.

managing certificates in Avalara helps to keep the certificates organized and increases visibility of missing/expired certificates.
we haven't used any others

Do you think Avalara delivers good value for the price?

No

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?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Avalara again?

Yes

Avalara helps to calculate tax for all of the states and we have started using Avalara for VAT.

Avalara Feature Ratings

Sales and Use Taxes
7
VAT / GST Taxes
4
3rd-Party Software Integrations
5
Tax Data Reporting
7
Compliance Administration Management
7
Tax Exemption Processing
7
Tax Document Management
7
Complex Tax Scenario Management
3

Avalara Support

Avalara support isn't helpful. They aren't as knowledgeable when trying to set up VAT with NetSuite
ProsCons
None
Slow Resolution
Poor followup
Less knowledgeable
Problems left unsolved
Escalation required
Difficult to get immediate help
Need to explain problems multiple times
Support doesn't seem to care
Slow Initial Response
No, because premium support hasn't helped in the past
Yes - It wasn't resolved timely

Comments

  • Celina Romera | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Thank you for sharing your experience. We're glad to hear Avalara is helping with tax calculation and certificate management and we appreciate your honest feedback on support and integrations. If you're open to it please reach out to customercare@avalara.com so we can take a closer look and better support your team.

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