Sales tax software for businesses using 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 various tax types
• Exemption settings if you have exempt customers
• Product taxability settings for what you sell

Avalara provides  a comprehensive Avalara University course designed specifically for BigCommerce merchants to get set up quickly and efficiently on AvaTax. The implementation process takes you through every step to ensure AvaTax works seamlessly in your business. Users will typically:

• Assign and apply tax schedules to their customers
• Set up taxability information for their products
• Set up tax exemptions rules
• Configure more advanced rules for the solution

Visit Avalara University to get set up on AvaTax for BigCommerce today. 

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Still have questions about AvaTax and BigCommerce? Learn more at BigCommerce or browse the Avalara Help Center. 

Yes. AvaTax can manage your sales tax compliance across multiple companies, and even manage the process across complex corporate structures (parent/child companies, etc.). There’s no limit or extra cost for using AvaTax in multiple companies. Note: AvaTax requires users have only one company file open at a time.

AvaTax requires an accurate and complete address in order to calculate the correct tax. If you have the latitude and longitude (U.S. only), AvaTax is also able to calculate tax from that information.

You can select which documents AvaTax should calculate tax for, choosing from estimates, sales orders, invoices, credit memos, and sales receipts.

Yes, AvaTax will calculate sales tax on credit memos.