Avalara AvaTax for QuickBooks

Tax Compliance Automation Solution

Avalara AvaTax for QuickBooks Details

Price Free Trial - Custom Pricing.
Rating 4.0/5 based on 620 reviews on G2.
Business Function
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Compatibility QuickBooks Enterprise, Shopify, NetSuite, NetSuite, Sage, WooCommerce.
Developer Avalara, Inc.

What is Avalara AvaTax?

Avalara AvaTax is an automated sales tax compliance solution that helps businesses accurately calculate sales and use tax in real-time. By integrating with QuickBooks and other accounting platforms, AvaTax simplifies tax calculation, reduces compliance risks, and ensures businesses meet state and local tax regulations.

Avalara AvaTax is designed to handle complex tax rules and exemptions. It automatically determines the correct tax rates based on a transaction’s location, product type, and applicable regulations, eliminating manual tax calculations.

Moreover, AvaTax integrates seamlessly with e-commerce platforms, ERPs, and accounting software like QuickBooks and Sage, streamlining tax management from invoicing to reporting.

With features like automated tax filing, exemption certificate management, and compliance tracking, Avalara AvaTax helps businesses stay audit-ready while saving time and effort on tax management.

Key Features of Avalara AvaTax

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Automated Tax Calculation

AvaTax automates the tax calculation process by updating rates regularly as per geographies. It also calculates rates based on jurisdictions and legislation.

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View, Print, and Export Reports

Avalara AvaTax offers a wide range of reports, such as transaction tax or jurisdictional reports that you can print or export for error-free reconciliation.

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Address Validation

With the help of geospatial technology, Avalara AvaTax can validate an address and map it to the tax region database. It can also modify the address in invoices.

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Tax Rule Customization

Avalara AvaTax enables the creation of custom tax rules to define the taxation of items with custom tax codes, allowing overrides of Avalara’s default tax rules.

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Exemption Management

With AvaTax, you can store and validate exemption certificates online. Track rules and certificate expiration date. Request new certificates based on alerts.

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Driver for Scalability

If you are looking to expand your business worldwide, AvaTax can help you calculate and manage tax compliance for diverse geographies on a single platform.

Benefits of Integrating Avalara AvaTax with QuickBooks on Ace Cloud Hosting

Avalara integrates with QuickBooks Desktop to automate tax compliance and ensure efficient calculations. However, by hosting Avalara AvaTax with QuickBooks Desktop on Ace Cloud Hosting’s cloud platform, you get advanced features like –

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Total Data Security

Ace Cloud Hosting offers advanced data security features to protect critical business data from cyber threats. Prevent data breaches with safeguards like 256-bit data encryption and multi-factor authentication.

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HPC Servers

Work on high-performance computing servers and get optimum performance for your tax process. Add unlimited users and enable them to work simultaneously from remote locations without worrying about lag.

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Round-the-clock Support

With Ace Cloud Hosting, you get dedicated customer support from our cloud experts. Our support executives are available 24x7, even on weekends and holidays, to resolve issues quickly and efficiently.

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99.99% Uptime

Ace Cloud Hosting guarantees an uptime of 99.99% in our SLA. We deploy business continuity and disaster recovery plans to ensure uninterrupted tax operations, even during a natural disaster.

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45-Day Backup

Host Avalara AvaTax on Ace Cloud Hosting’s cloud platform and get a rolling data backup for 45 days at no additional charges. Ensure efficient data retention and retrieval, preventing data from data breaches.

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State-of-the-art Data Centers

Ace Cloud Hosting’s cloud infrastructure is built in advanced Tier-5 data centers with fault-tolerant systems and redundant infrastructure. It also includes protection from crises like floods, fire, and theft.

Integrating QuickBooks Desktop with Avalara

Avalara AvaTax integrates with QuickBooks Desktop to streamline tax calculations, manage exemption certificates in QuickBooks, and reduce audit risks. Here are the steps to connect QuickBooks with Avalara.

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Download and install Avalara AvaTax for QuickBooks Desktop connector on the same system as QB Desktop.

Step2
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In QuickBooks, enable DigiCert by allowing access to AvaTax in Company Preferences.

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Login to QuickBooks as admin and select Yes, whenever this QuickBooks company file is open.

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From QB, go to the Connect to AvaTax box, enter your Avalara username and password, select Next, and then Finish.

Frequently Asked Questions

Avalara offers 24x7 customer support to all its customers. However, you can also opt for premium support at an additional cost.

Yes, Avalara can be used to manage tax compliance across multiple companies.

Yes, Avalara Avatax offers a 60-day free trial which includes unlimited users.

To download the web connector, please follow the following steps.

  • Sign in to Avalara.
  • Navigate to Settings > Integrations.
  • Choose See connector versions.
  • Select Download on the integration package for QuickBooks.
  • Save the downloaded package.

Yes, Avalara AvaTax is a cloud solution that you can integrate with QB Desktop through a web connector - Avalara AvaTax for QuickBooks Desktop.

Reviews

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My favorite part of using Avatax is that they are comprehensive. We no longer have to collect the data and upload it into a program or try to figure it out on our own. They figure the tax on each order, create reports at the end of every month and then file with each state and locality which we are registered with. I also like that we can easily add new items and they will be taxed correctly because of the detailed definitions on each tax code Avalara uses.
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I use Avalara's CertCapture program for filing all of the tax certs my company receives. If you are still keeping physical copies, you need to consider this. CertCapture allows the user to assign account numbers and names to every cert uploaded - it also allows expiration dates to be set. A report is processed every couple of weeks to see which of our customers will need to send in updated paperwork. Then an automated email and fax are sent, reminding them what certs are needed. Staying in compliant is one of my top priorities and this allows me to do so with ease.
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Its great! Dont need to worry about filing deadlines unless the state goes through an overhaul of IT systems. it's convenient and worry-free. I never have to worry about getting tax filed.
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