Challenge:
Applying tax rates by ZIP code, accounting for tax holidays, and coordinating rates with information across business systems can cause inaccuracies leading to risk exposure.

Solution: 
With Avalara’s SaaS-based system, you get:

• The expertise of our in-house team of tax researchers
• Regular updates across the 13,000+ jurisdictions in the United States
• Rates based on street address and geolocation, not ZIP code, for improved accuracy
• Built-in address validation
• Enhanced customization with Advanced Transaction Rules
• Automatic updates when we make changes based on new rules and regulations from around the world that could impact compliance

Challenge:
Implementing a new tax solution is a daunting task. It can be expensive, disruptive, and potentially incompatible with your existing systems.

Solution: 
Avalara offers 1,200 signed partner integrations with:

• ERPs
• Accounting programs
• Ecommerce platforms and shopping carts
• Billing systems
• Procurement
• POS
• Other business systems

Challenge:
New systems are often expensive and resource-intensive for IT departments, especially when they require an investment in keeping on-premises solutions up to date and running smoothly.

Solution: 
Avalara’s SaaS solutions provide compliance without ongoing IT intervention, reducing time and cost investment:

• No platform to host locally, unless required by your business
• No specialized hardware systems to maintain
• Updates are sent regularly via the cloud

Challenge:
What may be good for business can be bad for business systems. Investing in a new solution can be hard to justify when growth or change are expected in the near term.

Solution: 
Avalara’s enterprise solution is built from products available as a suite or independently.

You can:

• Choose the products you need now
• Add products as your business grows or expands into new markets
• Use prebuilt integrations to improve tax compliance while avoiding vendor lock-in

Challenge:
Implementing new systems can be expensive and disruptive, and may not be worth the hassle for your tax team, especially if it takes a long time to figure out.

Solution: 
The Avalara interface is user-centric and intuitive. Your tax team can easily:

• See exactly what your tax responsibilities are
• Generate reports
• Look up tax rate details
• Create tax rules
• So much more

Challenge:
Investing in a tax solution is only worth it if the performance is reliable. No one wants to spend a lot of money only to have delays and downtime disrupt business.

Solution: 
Avalara includes:

• Tax rates provided at the point of sale, without interrupting the purchase process, even during peak sales periods
• Services hosted at AWS, with native redundancy and failover capabilities to help your business run smoothly

Challenge:
No business wants to be in the news for a security breach. While offloading tax compliance tasks sounds great, creating another vector for data sounds risky.

Solution:
Our 24/7 security operations center is dedicated to protecting your data and reducing risk with:

• Dedicated security programs
  - Application security
  - IT security
  - Security Incident Response Team (SIRT)
  - Security risk and compliance
  - Red team
  - Cloud security
  
• External penetration
• SSAE 18 SOC I Type II