Avalara AvaTax for Elastic Path Commerce

Overview

Avalara helps businesses of all sizes get tax compliance right. In partnership with leading ERP, accounting, e-commerce, and other financial management system providers, Avalara delivers cloud-based compliance solutions for various transaction taxes, including sales and use, VAT, excise, communications, and other indirect tax types. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world.

Features

Key features of Avalara AvaTax include:

• Address Validation - the most accurate and up-to-date address data available. 
• Sourcing Rules – using geocoding, addresses are pinpoint positioned within jurisdiction boundaries. 
• Jurisdiction Assignment - highly accurate product taxability assessments.
• Product Taxability - destination based, origin based and hybrid sourcing rules.
• Reporting - summary and detailed reports on demand, easily and accurately, that can be exported. 
• Avalara Returns - automatically provides e-file, hard-copy and Streamlined Sales Tax returns.

Learn more about our partnership with Avalara

Supporting Docs

This integration uses the Elastic Path Commerce Extension Point Framework that debuted in version 8.4. 

For Elastic Path Commerce versions 8.3.x and earlier, please use this repository. 

Use Cases

Benefits

Key benefits of sales tax automation with Avalara include:

• Accuracy
  • Real-time tax calculations that get it right every time.
• Efficiency
  • Reduce costs and time spent managing tax compliance.
• Risk Management
  • With accurate results, you’ll decrease your company’s risk.
• Customer Satisfaction
  • Streamline transactions with instant sales tax calculations.
• Business Growth
  • Free up resources to focus on high-value projects.