Avalara Manufacturing Reviews & Insights

We use Avalara for sales tax calculation, collection, and reporting. Avalara's technology aids in the accurate calculation of sales taxes for all applicable taxing jurisdictions, as well as reporting these taxes to the appropriate jurisdictions. The Avalara generated reports also serve as an audit trail for us as well.

Avalara is well suited any retailer that has sales in multiple states. It aides in accurately calculating sales taxes at all jurisdiction levels, taking into account exemptions, lower tax rates for grocery items, and sales tax holidays. Avalara keeps track of all sales generated in a specific period and then files sales tax returns in the necessary states.
It may not be well suited for manufacturers/wholesalers that only produce goods for resale or retailers that do not sell goods and services in more than one location.

We use Avalara to file and submit sales tax returns for multiple states as well as utilizing Avalara Exemption Management to store exemption certificates. The business problem that the product addresses was the sales tax nexus and making sure that we are paying state sales taxes in those states that we have nexus in.

Avalara is well suited for us because it makes it easier for us to navigate sales tax and filing state sales tax returns for multiple states. I appreciate how simple they made this process for us, helps save us a great amount of time and allows us to focus on the business. Less appropriate, is that most of our customers are sales exempt and it can be a bit challenging at times with AvaTax overriding our tax calculation within NetSuite. Overall, that issue has been less and less, so we are moving in the right direction.

Avalara is how we are managing our customer tax exempt status and maintaining compliance with the rules and regulations. It allows us to see who is out of compliance, as well as working with the software to ensure that it is billing for our customers when they may be shipping to an area that they have no exempt status in.

Avalara has brought our customer exemption certificates into compliance with minimal effort and time being dedicated to it due to its ease of use.

Avalara has helped us better organize tax exemption certificates for our customers. This helps us stay current and in compliance, as well as working with our ERP to determine what customers should be billed tax and when. If they are not current, then they will flag to be billed sales tax until we have remedied the problem.

Avalara reaches out to my customers based on what I enter to make sure that we are getting updated tax exemption certificates to ensure that we stay in compliance. I can reject problems in real time and then they reach out again to try and get a compliant certificate.

Avalara helps collect the correct amount of sales tax for each state, county and city. Stores all tax exempt certificates and sends expired certificates to help resolve updating issues. Also once uploaded it lets you know if the certificate is valid.

Asked for the sales tax that was accrued from the prior year only gave me a link, that was no help. When it filed sales tax for the quarter and our system was down once uploaded all the sales all the customers were charged sales tax in the period even when they were tax exempt we had to pay for this mistake.

We are a medical device manufacturing/distribution organization. We sell into many states throughout the US, and as we grew, we quickly realized we could no longer handle sales tax management in-house, even if we hired additional staff. Avalara's returns filing and certificate management service have allowed us to focus on managing /growing the business while remaining compliant with sales tax. They have tax codes that fit our business, enabling us to calculate sales tax for our customers accurately. Other products we've used previously did not have the range of tax codes that Avalara offers. Avalara also provides an API that allows seamless integration with our ERP. They do all the work for us regarding sales tax management.

Avalara was the only solution we found that fit our needs. The tax codes were a sticking point with other solutions, as they did not have medical device/diabetic supply-specific codes.

We are a small business with few employees. Avalara is helping us stay compliant with the 35 states that we have to file sales tax in and make sure we remit correct and accurate information. They also are going to be integrated into our software which will take that many more processes off my plate.

Most of my sales tax knowledge has come from Avalara. Attending the conference gave me a solid foundation into an unfamiliar world. Then the continuing education from the ambassador program has helped me stay current. As the company has grown so has our compliance needs and Avalara has been able to keep up with our changing needs easily and made my job easier.

We use Avalara to collect and validate Sales Tax Exemption Forms, calculate Sales Tax Expense and File Returns.

Avalara has forced us to become compliant with Sales Tax Collection and Remittance.

We use Avalara for certificate management as well as for sales tax returns and have been very pleased both with the platform and the level of support we receive. Sales tax is ever-changing and to minimize our exposure, we trust Avalara as the experts. Applications are user-friendly and reliable and in the rare cases of technical issues, support personnel has been readily available and helpful.

We have been very pleased with our 3 year experience with certificate management and return filings

We are an auction house that sells historic and collectable philatelic and numismatic items. Avalara keeps track of sales tax rates and the taxability of different items which are subject to various forms of taxation in differing jurisdictions. Avalara takes the worry out of our sales and seller's use tax filings. Avalara also keeps track of where we have economic nexus and where we are approaching economic nexus. This helps us assure that we are compliant with our obligations.

Avalara is well suited to manage sales and seller use tax filings and to track economic nexus before it becomes an issue. Since employing Avalara, we have not had any sales or sellers use tax penalties. Avalara takes the worry out of sales tax compliance, We always know what we owe and when it is due.