Avalara Announces Low-Code Developer Tools and New APIs to Embed Compliance into Business Applications and Ecommerce Platforms
28 März 2022 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Avalara (NYSE: AVLR), a leading provider of tax compliance
automation software for businesses of all sizes, today announced a
new low-code studio to help developers easily build integrations
between Avalara’s compliance platform and business applications,
and two new APIs for sales tax returns and e-invoicing. Embedding
compliance functions using APIs allows Avalara partners to serve
their customers more holistically within the software they already
use.
Avalara is expanding opportunities for partners to build
compliance integrations and experiences. To offer flexibility and
control to developers, Avalara is pursuing a headless compliance
approach that decouples the front-end presentation layer of a
compliance experience from the back-end compliance functionality.
With new and future APIs for compliance, software developers can
more quickly and easily build complete compliance workflows into
business applications.
Avalara introduces low-code tools for developers
Avalara helps businesses simplify and automate tax compliance
requirements. The company has done so by delivering Avalara
Compliance Cloud applications to end users through more than 1,200
signed partner integrations into every type of business system,
from ERPs and point-of-sale systems to ecommerce and marketplace
platforms. Developers make the seamless integration of compliance
into these applications a reality, building and maintaining
integrations for the flow of data between systems that manage
transactions and finance, and Avalara’s platform.
To improve the process of creating and maintaining integrations
for partners, Avalara Integration Studio — a low-code platform for
integration development — provides simple, customized workflows
that developers can follow to build specific functions. Integration
Studio both simplifies the complexity around understanding tax
context and Avalara APIs, and allows nontechnical teams to more
easily assist in the development of integrations.
“Developers are critical partners to Avalara. We want to make it
as easy as possible for developers to build integrations,
compliance experiences, and new compliance applications using the
innovation and expertise from Avalara,” said Sanjay Parthasarathy,
chief product officer at Avalara. “The capabilities announced today
are the next step in our journey of learning from, working with,
and supporting the developer community.”
Avalara announces new APIs
- Avalara’s e-Invoicing API will allow partners to offer their
customers the ability to trigger and manage e-invoicing workflows
from within their application.
- Avalara’s Returns API will allow partners to embed tax return
workflows for their customers natively within their
application.
Avalara’s new offerings extend the company’s API portfolio
beyond tax calculation and compliance document management. This
preview release of returns and e-invoicing APIs is an important
step for Avalara to solicit input and feedback from the developer
and partner community prior to commercial release. Early
partnership and collaboration with these communities will inform
prioritization and development of future compliance API
development.
E-invoicing and associated live reporting requirements
facilitate the exchange of transactions and related tax
information, between businesses and governments in or near real
time. More than 60 countries rely on or have announced the intent
to move to an e-invoicing system for compliance, whereby businesses
must use specific formats and/or validate transactions with
governments. Avalara’s e-Invoicing API will enable partners to
automate their customers’ e-invoicing obligations within the
partners’ platforms. Partners can provide their customers with an
e-invoicing offering that meets leading market standards, like
PEPPOL BIS 3.0, as well as country-specific standards such as
Portuguese eSPap, German ZUGFeRD, and Saudi Arabia's Fatoorah.
Sales tax returns are an essential part of tax compliance and
can be costly and time-consuming for businesses. Today, Avalara
helps prepare and file returns for customers using transactional
data in their business applications. Because of the matrix of state
and local returns rules and deadlines, businesses are preparing and
filing returns on a recurring, regular basis, requiring
near-constant review and interaction with return preparation tools.
Avalara’s Returns API will enable partners to present sales tax
return flows for their customers natively in their business
applications, making it convenient and simple for customers to
engage throughout the returns filing process. This includes
activities such as reviewing tax liabilities, viewing and approving
prepopulated tax return forms, and submitting forms for filing via
Avalara.
Avalara has many resources for developers available today,
including the Avalara Developer Portal, Avalara Developer blog, and
Avalara NEXT, an event for developers responsible for building
global tax compliance into commerce and business operations.
Avalara will unveil the new capabilities at Avalara NEXT.
Register to attend here.
About Avalara
Avalara (NYSE: AVLR) helps businesses of all sizes get tax
compliance right. In partnership with leading ERP, accounting,
ecommerce, and other financial management system providers, Avalara
delivers cloud-based compliance solutions for various transaction
taxes, including sales and use, VAT, GST, excise, communications,
lodging, and other indirect tax types. Headquartered in Seattle,
Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world in Brazil,
Europe, and India. More information at avalara.com.
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