Accounting
Shopify Integrates Avalara Sales Tax System Into Ecommerce Platform
With the newly-announced integration, Shopify Plus merchants can benefit from Avalara’s Compliance Cloud solution, which automatically calculates tax for every invoice line item, in real-time, in the Shopify Plus shopping cart.
Jan. 19, 2016
The ecommerce platform Shopify Plus has completed certification and integration of Avalara’s Compliance Cloud solution into its platform, the companies announced Tuesday at the National Retail Federation’s annual tradeshow in New York City. Avalara is a provider of cloud software delivering compliance solutions for sales and use tax, VAT, and other transactional taxes.
The service offering will be made available to Shopify Plus merchants, streamlining and automating calculations of hundreds of thousands of complex and ever-changing tax rates, rules and jurisdictions.
With the newly-announced integration, Shopify Plus merchants can benefit from Avalara’s Compliance Cloud solution, which automatically calculates tax for every invoice line item, in real-time, in the Shopify Plus shopping cart.
In addition, Shopify Plus merchants can add Avalara’s tax return preparation, filing, and remittance services. Avalara’s Compliance Cloud solution reduces the tedious work, and complexity of calculating and filing taxes for millions of products and services across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and dozens of other international jurisdictions. This frees up time for Shopify Plus merchants to focus on their core businesses, and provides peace of mind that their tax decisions are correct on every transaction.
“We’re excited to be partnering with Avalara to provide Shopify Plus merchants with an automated way to calculate sales tax,” said Loren Padelford, General Manager of Shopify Plus. “Since Shopify Plus merchants generate high volumes of sales, managing sales taxes can be complex and costly, and this new integration will save them time and money.”
Scott McFarlane, CEO at Avalara said, “Ecommerce is real-time, so it just doesn’t make sense to manually manage sales and VAT taxes. Avalara’s Compliance Cloud platform provides a fast, easy, and cost-effective way for Shopify Plus merchants to manage tax compliance. We’re excited to welcome Shopify into our community.”