Software companies and sales tax
Get a suite of solutions to help you increase efficiency and decrease risk. It’s a tax compliance win-win.
Making the difficult easy
A jumble of sales tax regulations governs digital goods and software services, making compliance too big a task for manual processes. Automate and simplify with solutions for tax calculations, exemptions, and returns.
Avalara AvaTax
Rapidly calculates sales and use tax on software and digital goods/services, such as digital downloads, cloud access, and streaming media, at the time of purchase or invoicing.
The faster you grow, the sooner you may need to calculate and collect tax on more types of sales and in more places. It’s easy to configure AvaTax to meet your needs.
With 600+ prebuilt connections into widely used ERP, ecommerce, and other applications, and an advanced API, AvaTax works with the systems and processes you already have in place.
Sales tax rates and rules aren’t set in stone. They change with a high degree of frequency. Rest assured we keep pace by regularly updating our cloud-based calculation system.
Avalara Returns
Hand off returns preparation, filing, and remittance for fast, easy multijurisdictional compliance.
Returns pulls the data needed to prepare your returns from AvaTax without you ever lifting a finger. Just log in to view your prepared returns.
Add or remove tax jurisdictions, and adjust your filing frequency, using a convenient online filing calendar.
Make one consolidated payment per filing period via a secure transfer. Returns will distribute the funds to the appropriate jurisdictions.
Avalara CertCapture
Easy tax document management with all the bells and whistles you’d expect from a cloud-based service.
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Stay audit-ready with your reseller tax documents and customer exemption certificates stored together, securely.
Customers can submit certificates online within the checkout process. Automated renewal requests remind them of upcoming expiration dates.
Exemptions automatically happen at checkout thanks to CertCapture’s ability to exchange data with AvaTax and numerous tax software systems.
"Using Avalara for our automated tax compliance solution has been well worth the money and time, and helps keep us compliant."
Jason Heckel, Senior Director of Tax
Zillow Group, Inc.
Dig deeper into the issues impacting software taxability, and read the latest headlines on software sales tax from our blog.
Learn how sales tax management relates to your growth plan, as well as your funding or exit strategy.
Nearly every industry has to deal with sales tax in some way, but high-growth companies have it the hardest.