Avalara for WooCommerce

Automate tax compliance

Avalara for WooCommerce does the heavy lifting when it comes to domestic and global tax compliance. Our integration with WooCommerce offers a single connection to a global tax compliance platform, helping your business calculate tax at checkout, prepare and file tax returns, manage tax exempt sales, and more. To use Avalara for WooCommerce, you must purchase an account with Avalara if you don’t already have one.

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Key benefits

Let agentic AI do the tax work. Avalara automates tax compliance across industries, borders, and tax types — reduce audit exposure, cut compliance costs, and increase efficiency.

• Improve accuracy – Navigate complex tax laws and reduce manual work as Avalara updates in real time, covering 900K+ tax rules across 12,000+ U.S. sales and use tax jurisdictions and 190+ countries.
• Save valuable time – Save up to 34 hours annually on audit preparation with a centralized, accurate record system that eliminates tracking materials across disparate systems.
• Lower audit risks – Reduce tax reserves and audit exposure with our unified sales and use tax solution that automates calculations, exemptions, and filings with high-level accuracy.
• Agentic tax and compliance – Powered by a network of Avalara AI agents, automate the compliance life cycle with one of the broadest sets of tax and compliance solutions in the industry.

How to get started

1. Contact Avalara to purchase an account, if you don’t already have one.
2. Download and install the Avalara for WooCommerce extension.
3. Log in to your Avalara account to get your Account Number and License Key.
4. Input your Account Number and License Key within your WooCommerce settings.
5. Set up and save your tax codes and settings for your store.

Notable features

Address the global market with confidence – Avalara Cross-Border calculates customs duties and import taxes in real-time, reducing the risk of costly penalties, delays, and customers being surprised with unexpected costs.

Stay confidently compliant when expanding across borders – The Avalara for WooCommerce connector now supports VAT calculation on B2C and B2B transactions for EU countries.

Digitally organize and manage your exemption certificates – Avalara Exemption Certificate Management collects exemption certificates at checkout, applies exemptions automatically, and helps you to easily track and maintain your certificates and documents.

Remove the manual drain of filing and remittance – When it’s time to file, you can reconcile and pay one amount. Avalara Returns works with state and local governments to file and pay on your behalf.

Free sales tax risk assessments and tools

If you do business in multiple states and/or countries, knowing if you need to register to collect and file sales tax is important. Learn more from our helpful tools:

1. Are you aware of your potential sales tax obligations? Take this free Sales Tax Risk Assessment to help find out.
2. Learn about your one-stop shop for end-to-end international trade compliance.
3. Sales Tax 101 with Avalara: How much should you charge? If you even have to. Don’t worry — we’ve got you covered.

Documentation and support

• You can learn more about installing and configuring Avalara in our documentation.
• If you already have an Avalara account, you can reach support through your account dashboard or one of these alternate ways.

“Integrating Avalara with WooCommerce has improved our eCommerce operations. It automatically calculates and applies the correct tax to every order, taking the guesswork out of tax compliance. What was once a manual process is now fully automated, letting us focus on growing our business without tax concerns.” –Rebecca Fortman, Treasury Accounting Manager, Tydenbrooks