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BENEFITS
Real-time content updates for your transactions
Get calculations without internet connection
Lessen your reliance on consistent internet access to help achieve continuous compliance and customer satisfaction.
Reduce audit risk
Increase the accuracy and uniformity of tax calculations across locations to avoid errors that can result in costly penalties.
Keep up with tax changes
Stay ahead of constantly changing tax rates and rules.
Improve customer experience
Deliver prompt tax calculations for offline transactions at checkout.
Get updated tax content
Access the latest tax data, including sales tax holidays, threshold taxes, and jurisdictional rules to help ensure accurate offline tax calculations.
Eliminate manual data configuration
Automate tax setup and rule management by transforming Avalara standard content into your point-of-sale (POS) system’s native format, where available.
AGENTIC TAX AND COMPLIANCE™
Let AI agents do the work
Imagine a digital compliance team that works 24/7, never fatigues, and always stays current with the latest rules for all jurisdictions. That’s agentic compliance in action.
Imagine a digital compliance team that works 24/7, never fatigues, and always stays current with the latest rules for all jurisdictions. That’s agentic compliance in action.
How it works
Avalara Tax Content for Retail
Sign up and configure
Choose the template relevant to your business and upload your locations.
Select alert preferences
Set up your notification preferences for downloading tax content.
Export tax content
Access and download regularly updated tax content.
Upload tax content
Choose your system and upload tax content.
Increase productivity with Avalara Tax Content for Retail
Get reliable tax content delivered directly to your system
Handle complicated sales tax scenarios and calculations with ease.
Regularly updated tax rates and rules enhance overall customer experience
Ideal retail segments include soft and hard goods, convenience fuel retail (CFR), and grocery
Replace manual processes with scheduled, automated tax data
Prevent the most common risks and burdens caused by manual tax updates to your POS, ERP, or other sales transaction systems:
Inaccurate rates that can lead to under- or overcollecting tax
Missing valuable tax rate and rule information due to inadequate research
Loss of productivity resulting from time-consuming tax data preparation
Keep your POS system prepared for complex tax situations
Manage sales tax within over-the-counter systems, kiosks, wireless setups, and other POS systems designed to account for:
Sales tax holidays
Threshold taxes
Multiple locations
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Avalara Tax Content Essentials
Receive precise offline sales tax calculations, plus tailored solutions and expanded delivery options for tax content.
Yes. You’ll need to sign up for an Avalara AvaTax account and configure your profile to use Avalara Tax Content for Retail. However, you’re not under any obligation to use AvaTax for your online sales tax calculations.
Avalara Tax Content for Retail uses information you configure in your Avalara account, such as store locations and products sold, to inform what data needs to be pulled from the Avalara content database for your business.
You can configure your content delivery methods (e.g., FTP or downloading from a server), frequency, and output formats (e.g., file naming conventions and extensions) as needed. This can be done during setup then updated as your preferences change.
Avalara Tax Content for Retail currently provides tax data for U.S. sales and use tax jurisdictions and Canadian provinces and territories.
You can configure Avalara Tax Content for Retail in five steps.
Sign up for your Avalara AvaTax account and configure your profile.
Identify the content needed at your locations.
Schedule your content delivery format, method, and frequency, then set up communication preferences.
Receive regularly updated content relevant to your business.
Upload your sales tax content and confirm it works within your retail systems.
Avalara AvaTax lets you do online tax calculations by calling out to Avalara through the cloud. Avalara Tax Content for Retail facilitates offline calculation needs by providing you with the content required to do calculations in your POS or other retail system. In many cases, retail businesses use both online and offline calculation capabilities.
