Avalara - Automating the sales invoice tax calculation

Automate your sales invoice tax calculation process

Avalara offers a service called ‘AvaTax’ which offers a solution to have correct Sales Tax calculated. Avalara AvaTax is a cloud-based software that determines and calculates the latest rates based on location, item, legislative changes, regulations, customer exemption certificates and more.

The CERM MIS Software sends the sales invoices to Avalara and receives from Avalara the correct sales tax information for the individual invoice lines. An integration to this service offers a solution for customers located in countries where frequently changing sales tax applies like the US, Canada, ...

The EDI interface between CERM MIS and Avalara’s AvaTax provides a standardized solution to assure your company always charges the correct tax.

• CERM–Avalara AvaTax workflow
  
  Sales invoices created in the CERM MIS are sent to Avalara AvaTax. As a result, a transaction is created in the Avalara AvaTax environment with all information of the invoice.
  
  The sales tax of the invoice line items is being calculated, automatically retrieved by CERM MIS and ready for the Compliance report. The calculated sales tax is then reported to a tax authority by Avalara Managed Returns.