About the Avalara VAT Reporting Integration

Avalara VAT Reporting is a third-party application that enables you to file your VAT returns and other indirect tax compliance reports in 35 countries, including all EU member states. By using the integration, you can send your financial data from FinancialForce Accounting to Avalara VAT Reporting.

Note:

If your company is based in the United Kingdom, you can use the FinancialForce VAT Reporting package instead of the Avalara VAT Reporting integration. For more information, see the Getting Started with VAT Reporting guide available in the FinancialForce Community.

As a desktop application, Avalara VAT Reporting can import XML documents that contain transaction data generated from Accounting. This enables you to send your sales and purchase invoices, as well as sales and purchase credit notes to Avalara VAT Reporting and report on them to the appropriate authority.

XML documents are generated using a scheduler with a predetermined frequency. Once the documents are generated, they are automatically sent to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) storage server. Your company must configure this storage server. You can then mount the folder that contains the XML documents on a local PC that has the Avalara VAT Reporting desktop application installed. For more information, see Setting Up the Avalara VAT Reporting Integration.

The integration is preconfigured to work with the following localizations of Accounting.

• Belgium and Luxembourg
• Denmark and Finland
• France
• Germany and Switzerland
• Italy
• Netherlands
• Spain
• Sweden and Norway

For more information see, Using Localization.