Ecommerce Sales Tax Questions Got You Down?

Why Should You Care?

One of the most important, and most complex, aspects of ecommerce is the collection of sales tax. There are a number of ways to calculate online sales tax, but if your business doesn’t do everything correctly—for example, adjusting for varying sales tax rates down to the “local tax” required in some areas (even more geographically specific than “city” sales tax)—there can be significant repercussions. Failure to collect applicable sales taxes correctly can lead to fines, a tax audit, or worse. Frequent tax code changes, state-to-state variations of taxable/nontaxable goods, and the ability to reach customers all across the country make keeping track of all the necessary information nearly impossible. Even if you collect all the right taxes, something as simple as a misplaced decimal point in your sales tax reporting can cause problems.

What’s the Solution?

If your business needs an effective, easy to use sales tax solution, Ecreative offers a manual process of updating tax rates, but with our automated Avalara tax programs that can be integrated directly into our ecommerce cart systems. An Avalara sales tax system will apply the correct tax rates for each jurisdiction (no matter where in the country a sale comes from), establish which products are taxable, and make managing your sales tax collection and reporting faster, easier, and, best of all, accurate. Besides automating your website transaction the Avalara products integrates will all accounting and ERP solutions. Whether Ecreative is building Avalara into an all-new website for your company or adding it to the cart system on your existing site, it’s a quick and painless process. If you’re a small business selling in one state, a business expecting to be over the threshold for the MFA, or a company operating across multiple states, Avalara is the best and most cost-effective way to minimize your risk in sales tax accounting. An Avalara program from Ecreative will eliminate the need for manually maintaining and supporting an online sales tax system. Avalara ensures accuracy, with leading-edge, cloud-based technology that gives you location-based and product taxability calculations, delivered instantly.

Contact us today to learn more about the benefits of adding an Avalara sales tax system to your website or visit the Avalera Sales Tax Automation page.