Cloud-based and scalable global tax compliance

Challenge:
Applying tax rates by ZIP code, accounting for tax holidays, and coordinating rates with information across business systems can cause inaccuracies leading to risk exposure.

Solution: 
Avalara’s cloud-based platform helps your business operate when and where you need it most:

• Expert in-house team of tax researchers
• Regular updates across the 13,000+ taxing jurisdictions in the United States
• Rates based on street address and geolocation, not ZIP code for improved accuracy
• Built-in address validation
  
• Customizable and flexible Advanced Transaction Rules

Automatic updates when we make changes based on new rules and regulations from around the world that could impact compliance

Challenge:
Implementing a new tax solution is a daunting task. It can be expensive, disruptive, and potentially incompatible with your existing systems.

Solution: 
We’ve built a global partner network that includes over 1,200 signed partner integrations, accountant partners, and systems integrators. We continue to grow our network to reach and support our customers on their compliance journey.

Our API was built by developers, for developers to help you tailor Avalara AvaTax to your business or integrate with custom systems.

Challenge:
New systems are often expensive and resource-intensive for IT departments, especially when they require an investment in keeping on-premises solutions up to date and running smoothly.

Solution: 
We’ve built a low-code integration studio to connect with any business application through our APIs and offer more out-of-the-box integrations with prevalent ecommerce, marketplace, point-of-sale, ERP, accounting, payment, and billing solutions than any of our competitors:

• No platform to host locally, unless required by your business
• No specialized hardware systems to maintain
• Updates are sent regularly via the cloud

Challenge:
What may be good for business can be bad for business systems. Investing in a new solution can be hard to justify when growth or change are expected in the near term.

Solution: 
Avalara’s enterprise solution is built from products available as a suite or independently.

You can:

• Choose the products you need now
• Add products as your business grows or expands into new markets
• Use prebuilt integrations to improve tax compliance while avoiding vendor lock-in and lengthy contracts

Challenge:
Implementing new systems can be expensive and disruptive, and may not be worth the hassle for your tax team, especially if it takes a long time to figure out.

Solution: 
The Avalara interface is user-centric and intuitive. Your tax team can easily:

• See exactly what your tax responsibilities are
• Generate reports
• Look up tax rate details
• Create tax rules
• So much more

Challenge:
No business wants to be in the news for a security breach. While offloading tax compliance tasks sounds great, creating another vector for data sounds risky.

Solution:
Our 24/7 security operations center is dedicated to protecting your data and reducing risk with:

• Dedicated security programs
  - Application security
  - IT security
  - Security Incident Response Team (SIRT)
  - Security risk and compliance
  - Red team
  - Cloud security
  
• External penetration
• SSAE 18 SOC I Type II