Avatax Integration

Organizations who sell products are responsible for collecting the correct tax amount based on the shipping address and submitting those tax payments to the correct taxing authorities in the given states, counties and cities. Tax amounts vary and can easily change with special tax levies passed in different community all over the country. Different cities consider different types of merchandise taxable and non-taxable as well. To accommodate the sale of products all across the USA you would have to research tax tables in many different locations, populate the iMIS tax tables (which are limited in handling so of the more complex layered taxes is some communities) and then submit payments to all the different taxing authorities.

Using a Sales Tax Automation service to calculate, collect, report and remit transactional taxes allows organizations to out-source this complex process. Avalara is a full-service sales tax company that uses innovative technology to automate statutory transactional tax compliance processes. They have an SDK that allows real time tax calculation and reporting.

The integration allows both desktop order and web order to use the Avalara Avatax service to handle the tax calculation and process the order with the correct tax. A customized checkout process uses a BMIAvataxService (a web service) to calculate the tax for web orders, and process the payment and order into iMIS.