<h2>Automate tax compliance</h2>
<p>Avalara for WooCommerce does the heavy lifting when it comes to domestic and global tax compliance. Our integration with WooCommerce offers a single connection to a global tax compliance platform, helping your business calculate tax at checkout, prepare and file tax returns, manage tax exempt sales, and more. To use Avalara for WooCommerce, you must purchase an account with Avalara if you don’t already have one.</p>
<h2>Let’s make tax one less thing to worry about.</h2>
<p><div class="woo-sc-box normal  info "> <a href="https://www.avalara.com/us/en/get-started/get-started-woocommerce.html?partnerID=0014000000pr8gIAAQ&campaignID=701Uz00000axgqOIAQ&connectorID=a0n3300000FSK2zAAH&utm_campaign=4-2025-woo-listing-general&marketing_channel=web_referral&vendor=partner&paid_unpaid=unpaid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Speak with an Avalara ecommerce specialist to get started</a> </div><br />
<strong>The 2026 Avalara Tax Changes Report for Retail is here! Understand how tax changes are reshaping retail pricing, compliance, and growth in 2026 and beyond.</strong><br />
<div class="woo-sc-box normal  info "> <a href="https://www.avalara.com/simplify/en/asset/retail-tax-changes-guide-for-2026.html?partnerID=0014000000pr8gIAAQ&campaignID=701Uz000016i9rdIAA&connectorID=a0n3300000FSK2zAAH&utm_campaign=AMER_PROS_Unpaid-Synd_HiVal-Report_03_2026_Woo-ATC-Retail&marketing_channel=web_referral&vendor=partner&paid_unpaid=unpaid&target_audience=partner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Download the 2026 Avalara Tax Changes Report for Retail</a> </div></p>
<h2><strong>Key benefits</strong></h2>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400">Let agentic AI do the tax work. Avalara automates tax compliance across industries, borders, and tax types — reduce audit exposure, cut compliance costs, and increase efficiency.</span></h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Sell globally with confidence – </strong>Give customers full transparency at checkout. Avalara can calculate sales tax, VAT, GST, and duties in real time — so shoppers see accurate costs upfront, with fewer unexpected charges after delivery.</li>
<li><strong>Supports both B2C and B2B –</strong> Whether you sell direct-to-consumer or to other businesses, Avalara manages accurate tax calculations, exemption certificates, and compliance requirements in real time — so every transaction is right the first time.</li>
<li><strong>Unify tax across each sales channel – </strong>Selling through WooCommerce, marketplaces, in-store, or wholesale portals? Avalara integrates with your commerce stack to centralize tax calculation, reporting, and filings with one solution.</li>
<li><strong>Agentic tax and compliance –</strong> Avalara’s AI-powered automation keeps tax compliance streamlined, with in-browser guidance from our Chrome plugin helping your team stay focused on operations and growth.</li>
</ul>
<h2>How to get started</h2>
<ol>
<li><a href="https://www.avalara.com/us/en/get-started/get-started-woocommerce.html?partnersource=0014000000pr8gIAAQ&campaignid=701Uz00000axgqOIAQ&connector=a0n3300000FSK2zAAH" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Contact Avalara to purchase an account</a>, if you don’t already have one.</li>
<li>Download and install the Avalara for WooCommerce extension.</li>
<li>Log in to your Avalara account to get your Account Number and License Key.</li>
<li>Input your Account Number and License Key within your WooCommerce settings.</li>
<li>Set up and save your tax codes and settings for your store.</li>
</ol>
<h2>Notable features</h2>
<p><strong>Address the global market with confidence – </strong>Avalara Cross-Border calculates customs duties and import taxes in real-time, reducing the risk of costly penalties, delays, and customers being surprised with unexpected costs.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-18734002504070" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/WooCommerce_AppListing_04.png" alt="Duties and import taxes" width="915" height="610" /></p>
<p><strong>Stay confidently compliant when expanding across borders – </strong>The Avalara for WooCommerce integration supports g<span style="font-weight: 400">lobal tax calculation and reporting—including e-invoicing and live reporting.</span></p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-18734002504002" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/WooCommerce_AppListing_01.png" alt="Cross border" width="915" height="610" /></p>
<p><strong>Digitally organize and manage your exemption certificates – </strong>Avalara Exemption Certificate Management collects exemption certificates at checkout, applies exemptions automatically, and helps you to easily track and maintain your tax-exempt sales.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-18734002504047" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/WooCommerce_AppListing_02.png" alt="ECM" width="915" height="610" /></p>
<p><strong>Remove the manual drain of filing and remittance – </strong>When it’s time to file, you can reconcile and pay one amount. Avalara Returns works with state and local governments to file and pay on your behalf.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-18734002504055" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/WooCommerce_AppListing_03.png" alt="filing and remittance" width="915" height="610" /></p>
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<h2>Free sales tax risk assessments and tools</h2>
<p>If you do business in multiple states and/or countries, knowing if you need to register to collect and file sales tax is important. Learn more from our helpful tools:</p>
<ol>
<li>Are you aware of your potential sales tax obligations? Take this free <a href="https://www.avalara.com/us/en/learn/nexus/nexus-risk-assessment.html?partnersource=0014000000pr8gIAAQ&campaignid=7015a000002BL82AAG&connector=a0n3300000FSK2zAAH" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sales Tax Risk Assessment</a> to help find out.</li>
<li>Learn about your one-stop shop for <a href="https://www.avalara.com/us/en/products/industry-solutions/cross-border-solutions.html?partnerID=0014000000pr8gIAAQ&campaignID=701Uz00000axgqOIAQ&connectorID=a0n3300000FSK2zAAH&utm_campaign=4-2025-woo-listing-crossborder&marketing_channel=web_referral&vendor=partner&paid_unpaid=unpaid">end-to-end international trade compliance</a>.</li>
<li>Sales Tax 101 with Avalara: How much should you charge? If you even have to. <a href="https://www.avalara.com/us/en/learn/guides/small-business-faq/tax-calculation-101.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Don’t worry — we’ve got you covered</a>.</li>
</ol>
<h2>Documentation and support</h2>
<ul>
<li>You can learn more about installing and configuring Avalara <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/avalara-avatax/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in our documentation</a>.</li>
<li>If you already have an Avalara account, you can reach support through your account dashboard or one of <a href="https://community.avalara.com/support/s/?language=en_US" target="_blank" rel="noopener">these alternate ways.</a></li>
</ul>
<div class="woo-sc-box normal  info ">Curious how we can help with your specific tax challenge? <a href="https://www.avalara.com/us/en/get-started/get-started-woocommerce.html?partnerID=0014000000pr8gIAAQ&campaignID=701Uz00000axgqOIAQ&connectorID=a0n3300000FSK2zAAH&utm_campaign=4-2025-woo-listing-general&marketing_channel=web_referral&vendor=partner&paid_unpaid=unpaid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Please fill out this form so we can best serve you.</a></div>
<p>“Integrating Avalara with WooCommerce has improved our eCommerce operations. It automatically calculates and applies the correct tax to every order, taking the guesswork out of tax compliance. What was once a manual process is now fully automated, letting us focus on growing our business without tax concerns.” –<i data-stringify-type="italic">Rebecca Fortman, Treasury Accounting Manager, Tydenbrooks</i></p>

Avalara

<p>Let agentic AI do the tax work for your WooCommerce store. Avalara automates your compliance tasks for speed, accuracy, and scale.</p>

<h2>TaxJar is a leading technology for e-commerce businesses to manage sales tax.</h2>
<p><strong>TaxJar</strong> is a SaaS-based sales tax automation platform that leverages innovative technology and exceptional customer service to help you focus on what matters most – growing your business.</p>
<p>Trusted by more than 20,000 businesses, TaxJar easily integrates with your WooCommerce store and automates the end-to-end sales tax life cycle – from calculations and nexus tracking to reporting and filing with a single click.</p>
<p>TaxJar provides award-winning support and transparent pricing options suited to the needs of your business. Eliminate the manual process and complexity of sales tax compliance as you increase sales into new states and across multiple channels.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Stripe acquired TaxJar</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> in 2021 to help businesses better manage tax compliance. </span><span style="font-weight: 400">TaxJar is a good fit for WooCommerce businesses with US sales tax obligations. For WooCommerce businesses with global tax obligations, </span><span style="font-weight: 400">Stripe Tax is a good fit.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400">TaxJar and Stripe Tax are two separate products that </span><a href="https://www.taxjar.com/taxjar-and-stripe-tax"><span style="font-weight: 400">address unique tax needs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">. Learn more about Stripe Tax for WooCommerce businesses </span><a href="https://docs.stripe.com/use-stripe-apps/woocommerce"><span style="font-weight: 400">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">.</span></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4620585" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2019-07-23-at-3.30.44-PM.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="6" /></p>
<h2>TaxJar features and benefits</h2>
<h4><b>Account</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Users must be subscribed to a TaxJar Professional account. To get started, <a href="https://app.taxjar.com/sign_up">sign up for a TaxJar trial</a>.</span></p>
<h4><b>Pricing</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Transparent, order-based pricing. No setup fee or connector fees. Learn more about TaxJar’s pricing at taxjar.com/pricing.</span></p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> A TaxJar Professional account will be required for real-time sales tax calculations through the TaxJar API.</p>
<h3><b>TaxJar for WooCommerce gives you:</b></h3>
<p><strong><b>Return-ready, jurisdiction level reporting. </b><span style="font-weight: 400">TaxJar save hours on sales tax filings by organizing sales data into easy-to-read, exportable, return-ready state reports. </span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Real-time sales tax rates & calculations.</strong> TaxJar API instantly provides accurate sales tax rates at checkout for upgraded plans. A TaxJar Professional account will be required for real-time sales tax calculations through the TaxJar API.</p>
<p><strong>Economic nexus insights.</strong> Import your sales data into TaxJar to determine where your sales have met or exceeded the economic threshold in each state. Get guidance on how to begin complying with sales tax in any new state.</p>
<p><strong>Peak season traffic management.</strong> TaxJar can handle and scale with any uptick in demand increase, such as seasonality or special deals.</p>
<p><strong>Prebuilt e-commerce integrations</strong>. Your business is multi-channel, so your tax engine should be too. In addition to our API, TaxJar offers a one-click integration with your WooCommerce store and major marketplaces like Walmart, Amazon, Etsy, and more. A Professional TaxJar plan is required to use API integrations.</p>
<p><strong>Multi-channel support.</strong> TaxJar automatically generates accurate state reporting across all of the channels you sell in and for all transaction types – including product and service exempt sales, customer exempt sales, and deductions for marketplace sales in Marketplace Facilitator states. A TaxJar Professional account is required to use these features.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-8662666 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-11.19.14-AM-4.png" alt="" width="1484" height="1330" /></p>
<p><b><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/rates-are-never-out-of-date.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-521882" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/rates-are-never-out-of-date-620x236.png" alt="rates-are-never-out-of-date" width="620" height="236" /></a></b></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734006362491" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/TaxJar2.png?w=512" alt="" width="512" height="385" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734006362513" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/TaxJar-3-1.png?w=512" alt="" width="512" height="373" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4620585" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2019-07-23-at-3.30.44-PM.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="6" /></p>
<h2>Customer experience is key</h2>
<p>When you need help, our extensive knowledge base, technical documentation, in-house sales tax experts and award-winning customer support team can get you the answers you need.</p>
<p><strong>Get up & running, fast.</strong> Simple onboarding accelerates the time it takes to get up and running (typically within 7 days), and successfully using TaxJar. Never wait for us to schedule your implementation and get started when you’re ready.</p>
<p><strong>Built-in research team.</strong> We keep up with the changes so your team doesn’t have to. Economic nexus laws, tax codes, no problem! Lean on our sales tax experts to provide timely and accurate research.</p>
<p><strong>Award-winning support.</strong> Our TaxJar experts are here to help troubleshoot and answer questions with industry-leading support.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4620585" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2019-07-23-at-3.30.44-PM.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="6" /></p>
<h2><b>Getting started</b></h2>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Transparent, order-based pricing. No setup fee or connector fees. TaxJar Professional starts at $99 per month for up to 200 orders, with four free AutoFiles per year included and distributed quarterly. Get started today with a </span><a href="https://app.taxjar.com/sign_up"><span style="font-weight: 400">free, 30-day TaxJar trial</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Join more than 20,000 customers who rely on TaxJar every month.</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4620585" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2019-07-23-at-3.30.44-PM.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="6" /></p>
<h2><b>Other notable features</b></h2>
<ul>
<li>Simple install – automate your sales tax in minutes</li>
<li>Compatible with WooCommerce and WordPress</li>
<li class="p1"><span class="s1">Supports tax exempt items set by store manager</span></li>
<li class="p1"><span class="s1">Sales tax data in one place even if you sell on other platforms.</span></li>
</ul>
<h2 class="p3"><span class="s1"><b>FAQ</b></span></h2>
<p class="p3"><b></b>Q: What are the requirements to collect sales tax with TaxJar for WooCommerce?<br />
A: A Professional TaxJar account and a business address are required for TaxJar’s plugin to calculate a sales tax rate.</p>
<p class="p3">Q: What does this extension cost?<br />
<span style="font-weight: 400">A: TaxJar is your all-in-one sales tax management solution. TaxJar provides transparent pricing options for businesses of all sizes. No setup fee or connector fees. Learn more about TaxJar’s pricing at taxjar.com/pricing.</span></p>
<p class="p3">Q: Does this cost more if I have nexus in more than one state?<br />
A: Nope. The cost is the same no matter if you have nexus in one state or 40 states.</p>
<p class="p3">Q: Can TaxJar file my sales tax returns automatically for me?<br />
A: Yes. We can file sales tax returns for you everywhere in any US state.</p>
<p class="p3">Q: Is there a separate fee to file my sales tax returns for me?<br />
A: Yes. The fee starts at $55/Filing with 4 free AutoFiles per year included in the TaxJar Professional plan.</p>
<p class="p3">Q: I have locations in multiple states. Will this collect sales tax in all of those states?<br />
A: Yes. We make it easy. Just tell us your locations and we’ll do the rest.</p>
<p class="p3">Q: What other platforms can I connect to TaxJar?<br />
A: You can connect your accounts from the following platforms to TaxJar to get automated sales tax filing. TaxJar has more than 30 integrations. Visit www.taxjar.com/sales-tax-integrations to learn more.</p>
<div class="woo-sc-box note  info "><strong>Note:</strong> Third party extensions are not covered under our <a href="https://woocommerce.com/support-policy/">Support Policy.</a></div>

TaxJar

<p>Automate sales tax compliance for your multi-channel e-commerce business. Accurate sales tax calculations, data aggregation, quality reporting, and filing for your WooCommerce store.</p>

Avalara vs TaxJar