Salesforce Sales Tax

Need automated sales tax inside of Salesforce? TaxNOW automatically calculates sales and use taxes for Salesforce Quotes and Opportunities.

Using the Apex Sales Tax SDK, TaxNOW for Salesforce Quotes and TaxNOW for Salesforce Opportunities connects to Avalara’s AvaTax Calc sales tax decision engine.

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TaxNOW makes your sales order and fulfillment process more efficient by eliminating the need to create and maintain in-house sales tax calculation tables, often prone to typos when entering data, and wasted time syncing data between sales and accounting teams.

FAQ’s

Why can’t I use just use the Zip+4?

Using Zip+4 to calculate sales tax is only accurate about 75% of the time. Sales tax rules are very specific and precise. Rules for special tax jurisdictions such as ‘less than 1000ft from a subway station’ (a real-world example) cannot be incorporated into a Zip+4 rate table.

What if I already have Avalara?

Existing Avalara customers can use TaxNOW with your current Avalara credentials. Transactions from Salesforce will automatically appear right alongside your transactions in your Avalara dashboard.

Do you do demos?

Yes! The best way is to contact us for a demo via the contact page. Alternatively you can email us at TaxNOW@EvolvingOffice.com or call 855-4TAXNOW.

TaxNOW applies precisely the correct tax for your transactions on the line item level. Taxes are provided automatically from Avalara’s web service and inserted directly into Salesforce Quotes or Opportunities.

How does it work?

TaxNOW is a set of Salesforce classes and custom objects needed to get up and running quickly with AvaTax Calc in your Salesforce Org.

The Apex SDK is the engine TaxNOW uses enabling cloud-to-cloud calls directly to Avalara’s AvaTax servers.

“Because many cities in Texas share a common ZIP code and many ZIP codes encompass an area both inside and outside a taxing jurisdiction, we do not recommend using them as a method of reporting local sales and use tax.” – Texas State Comptroller Office – Source: http://www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/local/rateinfo.html

Avalara Avatax Calc calculates tax on over 100,000 taxability rules in greater than 17,000 jurisdictions, and instantly applies these to each line item of your order transactions.

What do I need to get started?

You need TaxNOW for Quotes or TaxNOW for Opportunities, the Apex Sales Tax SDK (this enables cloud-to-cloud calls from Salesforce servers to Avalara servers) and Avalara’s AvaTax Calc service.

Why use Avalara’s AvaTax?

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Eliminate Time Consuming, Inaccurate Local Tax Tables.

Avalara’s AvaTax eliminates the need to use local tax tables, which are both time consuming due to managing monthly changes to thousands of sales tax rates, and are NOT compliant as zip codes alone are insufficient to determine sales tax jurisdictions and the appropriate sales tax rates.

Pinpoint Accuracy.

AvaTax calculates sales tax based on the ‘roof-top’ destination address. The solution leverages GIS Mapping technology (latitude/longitude) for jurisdictional assignments so all of the appropriate taxing authorities are applied to the ship-to address including State, County, City, Special Taxing Jurisdictions, etc.

Address Validation.

AvaTax provides address validation (AVS) functionality which normalizes every ship-to address. AvaTax checks addresses against an enhanced USPS CASS™ certified database to correct and standardize the destination address, including auto-correction of incomplete addresses, misspelled street names, missing ZIP codes, etc. This helps eliminate mis-shipments and relieves the cost burden of additional services to cleanse your customer address data.

Extensive Product Taxability Coverage.

Avalara maintains thousands of Product and Service Tax Codes which can be used to mask variable tax rules to ensure no matter what you sell and where or when you sell it, the correct sales tax is applied.

Centralized, Flexible and Secure Management.

Avalara provides customers access to a centralized AvaTax dashboard (only available on the TaxNOW Pro plan) for setting up single or multiple companies under one account, with the ability to identify specific tax rules like nexus, product taxability, and sales tax exemption for each unique company. Multiple users and access levels can be created for dashboard access.

Outsourced Filing.

AvaFile Managed Returns Service gives companies the ability to outsource the entire sales tax filing process, from filing the tax return documents to remittance of payment for sales tax liabilities. With AvaFile, you can be certain an accurate return will be filed in the correct format and at the correct time.

More Information:

If you have any questions about TaxNOW, the Apex Sales Tax SDK, or about the AvaTax service, please contact Evolving Office at 1-855-4TAXNOW, send an email to TaxNOW@EvolvingOffice.com, or fill out the form below.

4501 New Bern Ave Ste 130-300
Raleigh, NC 27610

800-250-6524

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