Automate Sales Tax Calculation at the Point-of-Sale with Avalara AvaTax
WooCommerce has partnered with the sales tax experts at Avalara to provide WooCommerce users with an integrated sales tax tool that is easy-to-use and easy-to-implement. Simply turn on AvaTax and the accurate sales tax calculation is applied to every purchase – automatically.
End of the month? End of the quarter? Annual tax filing? Use Avalara Returns with Avalara AvaTax for a robust solution that handles tax compliance from beginning to end.
How to Get Started
- Sign up for AvaTax if you don’t already have an account, then log in and grab your Account Number / License Key
- Download this free extension
- Install the extension into your WooCommerce store
- Save this information on the settings page and set up your tax codes/settings
- That’s it! Sit back and enjoy automated tax rate management!
With WooCommerce AvaTax, you can stop guessing at your tax rates and immediately streamline tax rate calculation and management. Rather than manually adding a bunch of tax and shipping rates to your store, you can use Avalara’s tax codes to automatically calculate the appropriate tax for each order based on your store address and the customer address. All tax information will be recorded properly in your Avalara account to make return filings as (relatively) painless as possible.
Ready to take it further? You can learn more about installing and configuring WooCommerce AvaTax in the plugin documentation.
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