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Purpose-built to work seamlessly with BigCommerce on day one
Tax compliance that grows with you
Avalara registration, calculation, filing, and document management products work together and scale, enabling you to maintain tax compliance as your business grows and evolves.
Integrates with your business systems
With 1,400+ signed partner integrations, Avalara can act as a single source of tax data across your systems. In many cases, Avalara works within your existing workflows.
Tax expertise from tax automation experts
You didn’t get into business to spend time on tax compliance. Let the experts at Avalara and BigCommerce do the heavy lifting so you can focus on growing your business and product innovation.
Integrate one product or multiple products to power your compliance
AvaTax is the global tax engine at the heart of our AI-powered compliance platform. It delivers highly accurate, real-time tax calculations for multiple tax types (U.S. sales and use tax, VAT, and industry-specific taxes) across city, county, state, federal, and international jurisdictions.
Streamline exemption certificate management to increase efficiency, save time, and reduce risk. ECM automates the process of collecting, storing, and validating exemption certificates for businesses of any size. In 2024, Avalara managed over 51 million documents and certificates.
Simplify your sales tax filing process with automated returns preparation. Avalara can even file and remit payments on your behalf, reducing manual effort and risk.
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GTSE
“We are expecting exponential growth in the U.S. in the next 12 months, so it’s safe to say that we’ll need to register in a lot more states. With Avalara, we feel more than ready.”
—Tom Armenante,
Director of Ecommerce, GTSE
Ag Solutions Group
“The integration of Avalara with both IntelliDealer and BigCommerce creates more confidence that sales tax is being calculated correctly. Just knowing that we are being compliant has been the biggest benefit. Overall, it’s definitely mitigating our risk.”
—Stefanie Hemeyer,
Controller, Ag Solutions Group
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Frequently asked questions
Why should I activate Avalara AvaTax in BigCommerce?
AvaTax sends real-time sales tax calculations to BigCommerce using geolocation to map multiple rates and rules to each transaction. Once you activate AvaTax within BigCommerce and set up your company profile, you can configure the setup to fit your unique business requirements for things like:
- Tax calculation settings for sales and use tax, VAT, and GST
- Exemption management settings to easily collect, verify, and maintain exemption certificates for tax-exempt customers
- Product taxability settings to define how the products and services you sell are taxed
How do I get started with Avalara for BigCommerce?
Avalara provides a comprehensive Avalara University course designed specifically for BigCommerce customers to quickly and efficiently configure AvaTax. The implementation process guides you through every step to ensure AvaTax works seamlessly with your business. Merchants can assign and apply tax schedules and set up taxability information for highly accurate tax calculations across all transactions.
How do I know where to collect sales tax?
Your business has an obligation to collect sales tax in states where you’ve established economic nexus. Economic nexus is a connection between your business and a state that requires you to register to collect then remit sales tax once you exceed the state’s threshold for sales revenue and/or number of transactions. Our economic nexus heat map helps you monitor where you may have economic nexus and alerts you when you approach or reach a threshold.
I have multiple companies. Will AvaTax work for me?
Yes. AvaTax can manage sales tax compliance across multiple companies or storefronts, and even manage the process across complex corporate structures (e.g., parent or subsidiary companies).
How is AvaTax different from other tax calculation systems?
Avalara AvaTax is an advanced solution that uses geolocation and address verification to calculate sales tax down to a specific address, accounting for multiple tax jurisdictions in a single ZIP code, complex tax tiers, and more. It can also calculate tax on international transactions. Avalara offers additional solutions to prepare and file your returns and easily manage exemption certificates in the cloud, which all integrate seamlessly with AvaTax.
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