Avalara
Avalara AvaTax is a sales tax software that automates tax calculations and the tax filing process. Avalara provides real-time tax rates from more than 12,000 taxing jurisdictions. The Avalara-certified integration is now available for all BigCommerce merchants or Shopify Plus merchants.
- Recharge Checkout on Shopify
- Recharge Checkout on BigCommerce
- Migrated Shopify Checkout Integration
Supported features
- Get accurate and up-to-date tax codes from more than 12,000 jurisdictions.
- Fine-tune a set of tax rules.
- Create accurate reports of your taxes.
- Shopify merchants can also use tax overrides for each product sold in Shopify.
Enable Avalara
Contact the Recharge support team to enable the Avalara integration on your store.
Note: Once the integration is activated by the Recharge support team, please reach out to an Avalara support representative to complete the setup of Avalara. Please note that billing for transactions through Recharge is handled separately from your Shopify Plus or BigCommerce plan. The Avalara representative will provide further details on how this works during the setup interaction.
How it works
Avalara Avatax is embedded in Shopify Plus and can be enabled by any Shopify Plus merchant and all BigCommerce merchants. Enabling this integration involves creating tax codes in Avalara and then associating them with product variants in your ecommerce platform. When used with Recharge's Avatax integration, both one-time purchases and subscription purchases will reference these tax codes in your ecommerce platform via the variant API.
First charge at checkout/UI/API
Recharge references the Avalara tax code from your ecommerce platform (which is informed by Avalara Avatax) for a specific purchase and then applies the correlated rate based on this specific Avalara tax code.
Recurring charges
Recharge references the Avalara tax code from the queued charge JSON for a given subscription. These tax codes are updated if the charge is regenerated, and again each time a new charge is generated. Keep in mind, you must regenerate existing queued charges if you want them to reference any tax codes that were updated after they were generated.
Reporting
Merchants who use the Recharge/Avalara integration can leverage their tax reporting features with full confidence that subscription purchase information will be accurate. This is because Recharge creates orders in your ecommerce platform with tax information and your ecommerce platform creates invoices in Avalara based on these orders.
Connecting stores to one Avalara account
It is possible to connect multiple stores to one Avalara account. You need to create two companies within the Avalara dashboard and have each store connected with each store, so it will be one account ID but two different companies within the dashboard.
Product exemptions
Tax exemptions set at the product level by default do not currently work as expected. To set up a tax-exempt product you can use the custom tax code ON030000 as mentioned in the article Set up an Account or a Product as Tax Exempt with AvaTax.
Avatax can be used to apply VAT to Recharge. VAT address needs to be set up in sales tax setting and make sure the Shopify or BigCommerce and Recharge integrations are enabled. When enabled, we calculate according to the VAT rate for that region.
Support for Avalara
If you have any questions or require more information about the feature set, reach out to the Avalara support team. If you require troubleshooting assistance, reach out to Recharge support.
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