Learn how Avalara Tax Content for Retail simplifies the sales tax process for your POS and other retail systems.
Automate tax content delivery to support your commercial transactions
Avalara helps businesses succeed by providing expertly researched and regularly updated retail tax content.
BENEFITS
Real-time content updates for your transactions
Get calculations without internet connection
Lessen your reliance on consistent internet access to help achieve continuous compliance and customer satisfaction.
Reduce audit risk
Increase the accuracy and uniformity of tax calculations across locations to avoid errors that can result in costly penalties.
Keep up with tax changes
Stay ahead of constantly changing tax rates and rules.
Improve customer experience
Deliver prompt tax calculations for offline transactions at checkout.
Get updated tax content
Access the latest tax data, including sales tax holidays, threshold taxes, and jurisdictional rules to help ensure accurate offline tax calculations.
Eliminate manual data configuration
Automate tax setup and rule management by transforming Avalara standard content into your point-of-sale (POS) system’s native format, where available.
How it works
Avalara Tax Content for Retail
Sign up and configure
Choose the template relevant to your business and upload your locations.
Select alert preferences
Set up your notification preferences for downloading tax content.
Export tax content
Access and download regularly updated tax content.
Upload tax content
Choose your system and upload tax content.
Increase productivity with Avalara Tax Content for Retail
Get reliable tax content delivered directly to your system
Handle complicated sales tax scenarios and calculations with ease.
Replace manual processes with scheduled, automated tax data
Prevent the most common risks and burdens caused by manual tax updates to your POS, ERP, or other sales transaction systems:
Keep your POS system prepared for complex tax situations
Manage sales tax within over-the-counter systems, kiosks, wireless setups, and other POS systems designed to account for:
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Frequently asked questions
Do I need an Avalara AvaTax account for Avalara Tax Content for Retail?
Yes. You’ll need to sign up for an Avalara AvaTax account and configure your profile to use Avalara Tax Content for Retail. However, you’re not under any obligation to use AvaTax for your online sales tax calculations.
How does Avalara Tax Content for Retail determine the data I need for my POS system?
Avalara Tax Content for Retail uses information you configure in your Avalara account, such as store locations and products sold, to inform what data needs to be pulled from the Avalara content database for your business.
How is my content delivered to me?
You can configure your content delivery methods (e.g., FTP or downloading from a server), frequency, and output formats (e.g., file naming conventions and extensions) as needed. This can be done during setup then updated as your preferences change.
Which countries can I generate tax data for?
Avalara Tax Content for Retail currently provides tax data for U.S. sales and use tax jurisdictions and Canadian provinces and territories.
What are the steps for using Avalara Tax Content for Retail?
You can configure Avalara Tax Content for Retail in five steps.
- Sign up for your Avalara AvaTax account and configure your profile.
- Identify the content needed at your locations.
- Schedule your content delivery format, method, and frequency, then set up communication preferences.
- Receive regularly updated content relevant to your business.
- Upload your sales tax content and confirm it works within your retail systems.
I’m already using Avalara AvaTax. Do I need Avalara Tax Content for Retail?
Avalara AvaTax lets you do online tax calculations by calling out to Avalara through the cloud. Avalara Tax Content for Retail facilitates offline calculation needs by providing you with the content required to do calculations in your POS or other retail system. In many cases, retail businesses use both online and offline calculation capabilities.
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