Automate Sales Tax with AvaTax
WooCommerce has partnered with the sales tax experts at Avalara to provide WooCommerce users with a sales tax extension that is easy-to-implement and easy-to-use. Simply turn on AvaTax and the accurate sales tax rate is applied to every purchase – automatically.
How to Get Started
- Contact Avalara to sign up for an AvaTax account, if you don’t already have an account
- Download this free extension and install into your WooCommerce store
- Log in to your AvaTax account to get your Account Number and License Key
- Input your Account Number and License Key within the WooCommerce settings
- Set up your tax codes and settings and that’s it! Sit back and enjoy automated sales tax calculation
With Avalara AvaTax, you can stop guessing at your tax rates and immediately streamline tax rate calculation. Rather than manually adding all of the tax rates to your store, you can use AvaTax to automatically calculate the appropriate tax rate for each order. All tax information will be recorded properly in your Avalara account to make return filings as (relatively) painless as possible.
How It Works
Avalara’s integration with WooCommerce does the heavy lifting. Helping your business calculate rates, prepare returns, and more.
Improve rate accuracy and reduce returned shipments
Avalara verifies addresses with rooftop accuracy across more than 12,000 U.S. tax jurisdictions. This ensures tax is applied more accurately than a ZIP code and decreases the chance of wrong delivery.
Better assess tax obligations in each state
Avalara’s solution tracks your economic nexus tax liabilities in states where you’re potentially obligated to collect. Detailed reports will alert you when you’re about to trigger tax obligations in new states.
Easily manage taxability rules across a vast product inventory
Avalara maintains a vast catalog of product taxability rules in order to apply the appropriate tax across thousands of SKUs, accounting for sales tax holiday and tax law changes.
Address the global market with confidence
Avalara calculates customs duties and import taxes in real time at the point of sale and collects at checkout, reducing the risk of costly penalties, carrier surcharges, customs delays, and customers being surprised with unexpected costs.
Remove the manual drain of filing and remittance
When it’s time to file, you can reconcile a single worksheet and pay one amount for your total tax liability. Avalara works with state and local governments to file and pay on your behalf.
Streamline aggregation of omni-channel sales transaction data
Avalara automates the collection of sales transaction data from ecommerce marketplaces and business applications for tax preparation and filing.
Work with other business systems you already use
With 1,200+ signed partner integrations, Avalara’s SaaS-based tax solutions plug into today’s most widely used accounting, ERP, ecommerce, shopping cart, and other applications for a full omnichannel solution. No prebuilt integration available? Build one with advanced APIs.
AvaTax provides a seamless integration with Avalara’s tax calculation and management services. You can easily and automatically get and charge the appropriate tax rates for your store based on your origin address and your customers’ addresses and manage all tax reporting in your AvaTax dashboard. AvaTax is available for merchants in almost every country!
You can learn more about installing and configuring Avalara AvaTax in the plugin documentation.
If you already have an Avalara account, you can reach support through your account or one of these alternate ways.
Take Avalara’s Free Sales Tax Risk Assessment
Are you aware of your potential sales tax obligations? Take this FREE Sales Tax Risk Assessment to help find out. If you do business in multiple states, it’s important to know if you need to register to collect and file sales tax. This assessment provides an estimate of where your business may have triggered economic nexus.