The Avalara Solution
Tax challenge, meet tax solution
Avalara reduces the hassle and complexity of tax compliance at every stage — no matter the industry or size of your business.

Challenge:
Using incorrect tax rates, not filing in places where you’re obligated to register and collect, and having incomplete or missing exemption certificates are just some of the tax errors that can create risk for your business.
Solution:
With tax compliance automation, rate calculations are more accurate, use tax is assessed, returns are filed on time, exemption certificates are up to date and easily accessible, and you can get registered in all the right locations.
“It also allows us to track exposure zones to make better decisions on when we need to start filing and remitting tax in a state or jurisdiction.”
—Catherine Roggenbuck, Jamf
Catherine's TrustRadius review
Challenge:
Researching tax rules and regulations, downloading rate tables, verifying exemption certificates, and filing returns — compliance tasks can pull your team away from revenue-generating tasks.
Solution:
Avalara lets you offload time-consuming tasks that can drain your finance and accounting teams. Rule and rate updates are pushed to your systems automatically. You can also let Avalara handle your returns prep and filing.
“Avalara has freed up nearly 60 hours of my staff's time to perform other financial duties each month.”
—Jordan Keil, United Tactical Systems, LLC
Challenge:
Getting reliable, consistent tax data pulled into all of your systems and marketplaces in the U.S. and internationally can be a nightmare.
Solution:
Avalara provides a single source of truth and a higher degree of accuracy for your transaction tax data across all channels and platforms, including your POS, social, and marketplace channels — in the U.S. and abroad.
“If you are growing online sales and meeting economic thresholds, it is a must; especially if you do not have the time or expertise to do it in-house or your CPA does not specialize in sales tax.”
—Jere Allen, The Lab Depot, Inc.
Challenge:
Adding product lines, undergoing mergers and acquisitions, expanding into new markets, and shifting technologies all complicate tax compliance.
Solution:
Automation helps businesses better manage tax complexity that often comes with business growth. The effort required to maintain compliance in a few states is vastly different than what’s required when you do business in most of the U.S. Plus, selling into other countries adds a whole new level of complexity. With automation, it’s easier to scale, and your business will be able to adopt new business platforms that will likely integrate with Avalara.
“Avalara has allowed continued management of sales and use with minimal resources as our company has grown expanding its nexus to all 50 states.”
—Candace Dallas, Classical Conversations, Inc.
Challenge:
Charging the wrong tax rate or having expired or missing exemption certificates at checkout can drive your customers to your competitors.
Solution:
Avalara delivers real-time rates directly into your shopping cart or invoicing system at the moment of purchase. Our solution also streamlines the storage and collection of exemption certificates to ensure a swift checkout experience.
“The certificate management has completely solved the problem we had in obtaining, filing and finding certificates.”
—Jeff Marr, C&P Microsystems
Jeff's TrustRadius review
Avalara automates compliance at key stages in the process
Avalara automates compliance at key stages in the process
Stage 1
Determine your tax obligations
Discover where you’re on the hook to collect, file, and remit with a sales tax risk assessment


Stage 3
Calculate sales tax and assess use tax
Calculate sales tax rates for all 13,000+ jurisdictions in the United States
Apply an appropriate tax code on products sold internationally
Determine the use tax owed on what you purchase
Keep up with international compliance regulations and apply customs duty and import taxes to international sales
Get up and running fast with an integration to the systems you’re already using
Avalara’s platform is designed to work with the leading ERPs, ecommerce platforms, and other business applications you rely on to run your business. With over 1,000 signed partner integrations, we can integrate with single system environments or a full omnichannel tech stack. And if you choose or need to build your own integration, we offer a robust API.
Get up and running fast with an integration to the systems you’re already using
Avalara’s platform is designed to work with the leading ERPs, ecommerce platforms, and other business applications you rely on to run your business. With over 1,000 prebuilt integrations, we can integrate with single system environments or a full omnichannel tech stack. And if you choose or need to build your own integration, we offer a robust API.
See more about our solution for your industry
Manufacturing
Meet customer needs and stay compliant when you’re collecting sales tax or exemption certificates.
Marketplace
Stay ahead of changes to marketplace facilitator laws while creating a better seller and customer experience.
Lodging
Simplify lodging tax compliance, whether you rent out a single property or operate a massive hospitality chain.
Fuel and energy
Get compliance help anywhere you operate in the supply chain for energy, fuel, tobacco, or vape industries.
Communications
Calculate taxes and file returns for VoiP, IoT, telecom, streaming, and cable products and services.
Beverage alcohol
Comply with tax requirements at the federal, state, county, and city levels, across jurisdictions.
Software
Manage the varied requirements of where and how SaaS, software, and subscriptions are taxed.
See more about our solution for your industry
Manufacturing
Meet customer needs and stay compliant when you’re collecting sales tax or exemption certificates.
Marketplace
Stay ahead of changes to marketplace facilitator laws while creating a better seller and customer experience.
Lodging
Simplify lodging tax compliance, whether you rent out a single property or operate a massive hospitality chain.
Fuel and energy
Get compliance help anywhere you operate in the supply chain for energy, fuel, tobacco, or vape industries.
Communications
Calculate taxes and file returns for VoiP, IoT, telecom, streaming, and cable products and services.
Beverage alcohol
Comply with tax requirements at the federal, state, county, and city levels, across jurisdictions.
Software
Manage the varied requirements of where and how SaaS, software, and subscriptions are taxed.
Solutions for selling internationally
Selling cross-border is even more complex than selling domestically. Avalara’s cross-border solution makes it easier to sell anywhere in the world by automating the process of identifying and mapping tariff codes to your products and by calculating customs duties and import taxes.
Solutions for selling internationally
Selling cross-border is even more complex than selling domestically. Avalara’s cross-border solution makes it easier to sell anywhere in the world by automating the process of identifying and mapping tariff codes to your products and by calculating customs duties and import taxes.

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