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Automate global indirect tax compliance for SAP S/4HANA (Private Cloud) and SAP ECC
The Avalara Global Connector for SAP delivers a clean core-focused, cloud-native, and scalable indirect tax compliance solution built on SAP BTP.
BENEFITS
Offload the complexity of indirect tax compliance
Cloud native scalability
As businesses adopt SAP’s RISE model, Avalara scales effortlessly to increased transaction volumes, new geographies, and global requirements.
Optimized for SAP’s clean core strategy
Avalara’s tax engine operates outside SAP’s core systems, helping maintain a clean core, reducing complexity, and easing future system updates.
Comprehensive global compliance
Avalara’s cloud-based tax engine updates tax rules across 190+ countries, ensuring greater compliance without IT or tax teams managing manual updates.
Flexible data mapping
Implementation teams can easily map custom SAP fields to Avalara’s tax engine with the Flex Mapper tool, reducing the need for custom development.
Enhanced diagnostics
Detailed transaction logs for every tax calculation help IT teams trace, validate, and audit tax decisions with full transparency to support audit readiness.
Streamlined compliance data
Avalara connects data across legacy or custom ERP systems, enabling seamless tax compliance across global geographies and business units.
How it works
Plug the power of Avalara into your SAP workflows
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Flex Mapper tool
- Flexible data-mapping tools enable quick adaptation to custom fields, unique transaction flows by SD, MM, AP, AR, and FI documents, and tax configurations within SAP.
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Sales and use tax calculation
- Avalara applies regularly updated tax rates and rules based on geolocation, product taxability, and transactional data to calculate sales and use tax across 13,000+ U.S. jurisdictions, and apply content for 190+ countries, to help increase accuracy of tax determination in real time.
- Automatically calculate tax for each line item on a sales order and invoice, providing a detailed breakdown of the applied tax.
- Identify undercollected and overcollected use tax to reduce liability and overpayments.
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Exemption management
Request, collect, validate, and archive customer exemption certificates directly within SAP to help ensure compliance documents are up to date, formatted correctly, and ready for audits.
The Exemption Certificate Management integration is available outside the Global Connector, working seamlessly with our suite of compliance solutions to automate exemption management.
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Logging and monitoring
- Robust logging features provide visibility into tax determinations, making it easy for IT teams to track, troubleshoot, and validate transactions.
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Global compliance
Automate calculation and reporting of VAT, GST, and customs duties and import taxes within SAP to maintain compliance on international sales.
Integrated global solutions
Apply more accurate, regularly updated tax rates based on location, taxability, legislation, and more.
Automate the assessment and accrual of consumer use tax.
Drive cross-border sales with a unified checkout solution that optimizes customer experience.
Calculate VAT quickly and more accurately to improve tax compliance across the EU and U.K.
Process, collect, and access exemption documents.
Comply with global e-invoicing requirements and automate your financial processes.
Maintain compliance with complex and ever-changing tax rules for communications products and services.
Offload the hassle of returns preparation, filing, remittance, and notice management.
Generate more accurate returns with 150+ automated data checks to ensure more accurate reporting.
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Frequently asked questions
How is Avalara AvaTax different from other tax calculation systems?
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. If you need to calculate tax on international transactions, AvaTax offers an option for that too. Avalara also has solutions to prepare and file your returns as well as easily manage exemption certificates in the cloud, all of which are tightly integrated with AvaTax.
Do you offer an annual or monthly agreement? Does it renew automatically?
Avalara provides a 12-month agreement that you can pay annually or in monthly installments. Agreements automatically renew at the end of each term, but you can cancel before your new term begins, according to our terms.
Is usage measured annually or monthly? Will any unused portion of my plan roll over to the next year?
Annually. If your plan allows for calculations on 500 transactions a year, for example, you can use those transactions anytime during your annual subscription term. Transactions don’t roll over and must be used within the subscription term in which they are purchased.
Does Avalara provide support?
Yes, you’ll have unlimited access to the Avalara Help Center 24 hours a day, seven days a week. More advanced support packages are also available to purchase.
Can Avalara AvaTax still calculate tax if I don’t have addresses for every customer?
Yes, but for the most reliable rates, Avalara needs an accurate and complete address, or the latitude and longitude (U.S. only), to calculate tax.
Does Avalara AvaTax calculate sales tax on return transactions?
Yes, AvaTax calculates sales tax on credit memos.
I have multiple companies. Will Avalara AvaTax work for me?
Yes, AvaTax will manage your tax compliance across multiple companies, even across complex corporate structures (such as parent/child companies).
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