Our Tax Compliance Platform

The Avalara platform

The Avalara tax compliance platform combines a vast database, a reliable and secure infrastructure that scales, and an extensive network of prebuilt integrations to the most widely used business applications — delivered from the cloud.

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The Avalara platform

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The core components of our platform

Vast product and tax database
Reliable and secure infrastructure
Extensive prebuilt integrations and API

Tax content and rules

Over 700 integrations

Robust and flexible API

Compliance data meets advanced tech

Accurate and timely compliance management is only as good as the data that powers it.

Wide range of compliance types

You gain access to real-time tax data updates for a wide range of compliance types, including sales and use tax, VAT, GST, excise, lodging, beverage alcohol, telecommunications, business licenses, and more.

Compliance data research professionals worldwide

Avalara has tax compliance research professionals in multiple locations around the world to maintain our proprietary database with millions of product classifications and UPCs, tariff codes, the latest tax rates and rules, filing requirements, and other compliance data for thousands of tax jurisdictions worldwide.

Advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence

We’ve developed advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) technology to keep our compliance database up to date and to power our solutions in real time in the cloud.

Cloud infrastructure

30,000+ Avalara customers of all sizes trust our cloud-based model to manage their transaction tax compliance.

Reliable

Your business can operate even when disaster strikes.

Cloud services are hosted on the global AWS platform, which provides native redundancy and failover capabilities

Global engineering operation centers actively monitor our cloud services

Secure

We focus on security to keep your data safe.

24/7 Security Operations Center

Dedicated Security Programs

Application Security
IT Security
Security Incident Response Team (SIRT)
Security Risk and Compliance
Red Team
Cloud Security

Continuous External Penetration Tests

SSAE 18 SOC I Type II

Scalable

Your business growth is important to us.

We’re focused on making sure our cloud services can handle increased traffic volume as your business grows year over year.

Horizontally scalable architecture

Data-driven analytics

Asynchronous processing

Integrations: The largest network of integrations of any tax software provider

Implementing and using a tax solution is much easier when it already works with the tools you trust to run your business.

700+ prebuilt integrations: With more than 700 prebuilt integrations to accounting, ERP, ecommerce, shopping cart, and business applications, we’re probably integrated with the applications you use today, and connected to the systems you’ll need tomorrow as your business grows.

Build your own: If you’re running a custom-built solution or software we’re not connected to, our API gives you a fast time to market with well-documented and a robust developer toolkit, built for developers by developers.

Our products integrate with the business applications you trust

What our platform delivers

End-to-end compliance without complexity

Avalara solutions work for every step in your compliance life cycle. Our tax calculation, tax filing, and tax document management products work together seamlessly.

Ability to grow and scale your business

Pick the right set of cloud products and services to use based on your business requirements. The platform allows you to activate the components you need when you need them.

Speed and ease of implementation

The Avalara platform is built to work with your current business applications. In many cases, you can simply activate Avalara cloud services within your ERP or ecommerce system. And because our platform is cloud-based, maintenance and upgrades are handled by our team, not yours.

Path for tomorrow’s tax landscape

The Avalara platform scales with your business. As tax compliance becomes more digitized globally, our cloud technology can help you adapt and grow by addressing new tax obligations and global standards.

Single view into core business applications

The Avalara platform is designed to work across many business applications at once. For companies with several ERPs and financial systems, Avalara works across all, enabling you to have a common compliance policy and strategy across all business applications.