Overview
What is TaxJar?
TaxJar offers automated sales tax reporting and filing. According to the vendor, capabilities include:Accurate, Detailed Sales Tax Reports: TaxJar’s local jurisdiction reports show sales and sales tax collected not only for each state, but for local jurisdiction (counties, cities, special…
Solid foundation, lots of potential
Rocky start, but good product
TaxJar does exactly what you need at a great price
TaxJar saves me a day of work for each return (at least!)
Your accounting department will thank you!
Amazing Time Savings for the Price
Great product, with a little room for improvement.
TaxJar is necessary for any business with nexus in multiple states
TaxJar is pretty darn good at it what it does
TaxJar!
TaxJar saves you from the headache of calculating state sales tax
TaxJar Keeps Small Businesses Sales Tax Compliant and Saves Time & Money
TaxJar Tax Calulation for Ecommerce
Popular Features
- Tax Data Reporting (5)9.898%
- Sales and Use Taxes (6)9.797%
- 3rd-Party Software Integrations (6)8.787%
Pricing
Starter
$19
Professional
$99
Premium
Custom
Entry-level set up fee?
- Setup fee optionalOptional
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Product Demos
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Features
Type of tax
A list of the different types of taxes that can be filed using tax compliance software.
- 9.7Sales and Use Taxes(6) Ratings
Software is capable of calculating and filing sales and use taxes.
- 9Cross-border Taxes(1) Ratings
Software is capable of calculating and filing taxes, such as customs, across countries.
Tax Reporting & Compliance
Activities relating to tax filing, reporting, document management, and exemption certificate processing.
- 10Geolocation for Tax Assessment(3) Ratings
Ability to use geolocation, which is more precise than zip codes, for mapping taxes to specific jurisdictions.
- 8.73rd-Party Software Integrations(6) Ratings
Pre-built integrations with various systems such as ERP, ecommerce, CRM, invoicing and billing, accounting, and procurement applications.
- 9.8Tax Data Reporting(5) Ratings
Ability to export transaction data for tax filing.
- 9.5Compliance Administration Management(4) Ratings
Ability to facilitate tax preparation, filing, and tax remittances across local, state, and federal jurisdictions.
- 10Tax Exemption Processing(2) Ratings
Ability to generate, track, exemption certificates from sales invoices.
- 9.5Tax Document Management(4) Ratings
Collection and storage of tax documents, especially exemption certificates, and ability to retrieve them to use for tax audits.
- 10Complex Tax Scenario Management(1) Ratings
Ability to automate handling of tax holidays and other anomalies.
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What is TaxJar?
According to the vendor, capabilities include:
Accurate, Detailed Sales Tax Reports: TaxJar’s local jurisdiction reports show sales and sales tax collected not only for each state, but for local jurisdiction (counties, cities, special jurisdictions, etc). Users can also sort data by any date range.
Estimated Sales Tax Reports: Users can see a comparison of what they actually collected versus what they should have collected.
One-Click Automated Filing: TaxJar will automatically file sales tax returns directly to the states. Available in 23 states with more to come.
Up-to-Date Collection Data: A dashboard shows how much has been collected in sales tax for any state, and when the next payment is due. Data is updated automatically, every day.
Support for Multiple Channels: Connect to platforms like eBay and Amazon.
Simple Pricing: No setup fees. No contracts. Users pay one simple monthly fee based on volume of transactions.
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TaxJar Integrations
- Amazon Web Services
- Shopify
- Shopify Plus
- WooCommerce
- Square POS
- PayPal Payments Pro
- Stripe Payments
- BigCommerce
- BigCommerce Enterprise Unpublished
- Ecwid by Lightspeed
- Zoey
- Magento Commerce
- part of Adobe Commerce Cloud
- Magento Open Source (formerly Community Edition)
- eBay
- Etsy
TaxJar Competitors
TaxJar Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Countries | United States, Canada, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom |
Supported Languages | English |
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(22)Community Insights
- Business Problems Solved
TaxJar has become a go-to solution for companies looking to simplify tax calculations and reporting across multiple jurisdictions and platforms. Users from various industries have integrated TaxJar with their eCommerce and ERP solutions, allowing them to provide consistent tax calculation and reporting on all transactions. This has been particularly beneficial for companies selling health and beauty items online via platforms like Etsy and Amazon, as TaxJar accurately calculates state sales tax and manages state sales tax filings. Additionally, the software has proved invaluable for companies selling software subscriptions by helping estimate the taxes needed to be collected from users in different states.
Accounting departments have also found TaxJar to be a valuable tool in figuring out what taxes are owed to different states, streamlining their processes and reducing errors. With an SDK that makes calls to an API, TaxJar can be easily implemented into existing systems, with plans for seamless integration with Stripe. The software covers a wide range of online selling platforms such as BigCommerce, Amazon, eBay, Shopify, and Walmart, making it easy for businesses to calculate tax and pull sales information for tax purposes.
One of the standout features of TaxJar is its ability to help companies stay compliant with state sales tax laws by consolidating all sales and tax information in one place. This has been particularly important in recent years when companies had to quickly adapt to comply with Wayfair Sales Tax laws in multiple states. Users have praised the user-friendliness of TaxJar's interface as well as its affordable pricing, making it accessible to businesses of all sizes.
Customer support provided by TaxJar is highly rated, offering assistance and guidance to ensure smooth implementation and continued use of the software. Users appreciate the level of support received when navigating complex tax requirements.
Overall, TaxJar has revolutionized how businesses track, manage, and pay sales tax for their eCommerce websites across various channels. By simplifying record-keeping and automating calculations, TaxJar saves companies significant time while ensuring compliance with ever-changing online sales tax collection laws. The software's seamless integration with Amazon allows users to easily manage and monitor sales tax collected from different states, further streamlining tax-related processes for online retailers.
In summary, TaxJar has proven to be an indispensable tool for businesses struggling to consolidate and file state sales tax accurately. Its robust features, ease of use, and excellent customer support have made it the go-to solution for companies looking to streamline their tax calculations and reporting across platforms and jurisdictions.
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(1-13 of 13)Solid foundation, lots of potential
- estimate taxes via zip code
- estimate taxes via full address
- generate reports of taxes owed to states
- straight forward API
- stripe integration needs improvement
- taxes are based off of USPS data rather than IRS data
Rocky start, but good product
- Calculates tax for our BigCommerce store
- Files tax returns for states we have nexus in
- Shows taxes handled by marketplace facilitators
- Support is lacking. Needs to be more easily accessible.
TaxJar does exactly what you need at a great price
- Files monthly and quarterly sales tax filing
- Alerts us well in advance of potential nexus states
- Makes it super easy to implement a new brand or subsidiary
- International compliance would be amazing, at least the rest of North America
- A bit more intuitive report features, like drill downs
TaxJar saves me a day of work for each return (at least!)
- automatically calculate what's needed for sales tax returns
- automatically completes sales tax returns
- automatically files sales tax returns
- It would be nice if we could upload our manual sales tax returns, so everything is organized in one place.
Your accounting department will thank you!
- Consolidates sales tax
- Gives reminders when sales tax are due for each state
- Easily download the information to an Excel file
- Perhaps creating a mobile application.
- Making it easier to search through previous years of sales tax
Amazing Time Savings for the Price
- Knowing the sales tax laws for each state
- Calculating sales tax on a transaction at checkout
- Recording history of sales tax
- Filing sales tax data with the state on your behalf
- Setting up auto-filing was a bit confusing and could be streamlined
Great product, with a little room for improvement.
- The CSV upload for clients that do not have or want to connect directly is very good. It allows us to get a lot of the information done quickly.
- The cost is very competitive.
- According to our clients, the integration is relatively easy.
- For the most part, the reports are accurate.
- Customer service for accountants is not phone supported. Even with the number of clients I have on the platform, I have to wait for email customer support.
- Some of the states' new reports need improvement. What the state is asking for is not being provided in NV and TN for out-of-state sellers.
TaxJar is necessary for any business with nexus in multiple states
- It's getting much better at native integrations, particularly with our website which runs on BigCommerce.
- It does a great job of clearly displaying our sales tax liabilities.
- It absolutely crushes the competition in terms of price as well as ease-of-use.
- Continually increase its native integration features with BigCommerce, which recently just opened up more Checkout APIs and Sales Tax APIs.
- The Amazon integration is confusing only because Amazon (sometimes?) calculates and collects sales tax on your behalf. It's not clear what's best-- to let Amazon do it for you or for TaxJar to handle it.
- Onboarding could be a bit easier and guided.
TaxJar is pretty darn good at it what it does
- Even though it was 4 years ago, I remember the integration process with Amazon being incredibly simple. TaxJar provided instructions on exactly what to do in order to make sure they were receiving the correct data. Even someone with zero IT or technical skills can follow the instruction and get it working. And it has worked pretty perfectly ever since.
- TaxJar does a great job of having a dashboard that makes it simple to see your gross sales, your taxed sales and what you owe in each state. If there's a new state where you haven't filed, TaxJar has an excellent guide on how and where to register for that state.
- TaxJar offers Auto-filing so that if all of your marketplace sales are tracked via TaxJar, then you don't even need to take care of filing your sales tax. They'll do it for you. I personally don't use it, but it's great that they offer it.
- One thing is that I do sell on another platform that integrates with TaxJar, but I have products that are exempt from sales tax in some states. With the other integration, there's no way to show those products as exempt. It seems that TaxJar doesn't see those exemptions for some reason.
- Support is only via email, unless you upgrade your plan to TaxJar Plus. During filing season that can be really stressful if you need answers quickly.
- It would be great if TaxJar could notify me if I have nexus in a new state, so I don't have to check on my own. Right now it has to be checked manually.
TaxJar!
- This was the easiest plug-in that our IT has integrated with our Magento Website. I love that it can collect and auto-file in every state. Customer support always answers our questions quickly and accurately. The interface is user-friendly.
- TaxJar is a fully featured taxation product for our e-commerce business. I'm amazed that something so fully featured is available at such a low price. It integrates with our e-commerce plugin WooCommerce.
- Best support to handle sales taxes with omni channel business. Our omni channel sale tax collection is on autopilot. It integrates flawlessly with amazon and Shopify and we haven't had any issue at all. TaxJar just does the job.
- The updates this year have solved any lacking areas we saw when we first started using Tax Jar. There are a couple of times Tax Jar has charged tax when it should have not, but the percent this has happened is less than 0.001% and the number of transactions we have seen this on has decreased each month.
- The service at the low price point is very poor. It feels like they do this intentionally to get you to upgrade.
- It is difficult to navigate when you don't know much about taxes. Specifically when I try to autofile and don't owe any taxes, I have to create mock files. This is almost impossible to figure out on the platform without customer support being involved to explain.
TaxJar saves you from the headache of calculating state sales tax
- Works seamlessly with Amazon and Etsy to calculate state sales tax owed
- State sales tax reports are easy to read and understand
- Allows recording of filing history
- Users can edit and manage of individual states
- Many states have different requirements: I wish each state account had more options for notes and other ways to document what is going on with each state. For instance, to be able to track the online account login information, add notes about communication with the state, fees outside of sales tax that have been paid or due, etc.
- I'd love to take advantage of the AutoFile but at $25 per state, and having to file in 31 states , 14 of which I have to file monthly, AutoFile just isn't economical.
- This is really picky but: previous period sales tax is always paid in the next period. However, the default when you look at any report or when you go to record the filing history is the current period. The default should always be the most recent period, since that's the period you're looking at 95% of the time.
TaxJar Keeps Small Businesses Sales Tax Compliant and Saves Time & Money
- TaxJar automates filing with multiple states Sales Tax Agencies
- TaxJar keeps track of which of my transactions require collection of sales tax.
- TaxJar spends the time keeping up with the rapidly changing legal status of collecting sales tax for online transactions.
- TaxJar will need to improve its functionality as the sales tax law changes from 2018 take effect.
- TaxJar needs to improve its pricing to allow for collecting sales tax and remitting into multiple states.
- TaxJar will need to bring on my customer service reps to keep up with its growth.
TaxJar Tax Calulation for Ecommerce
- Ecommerce tax calculation
- Tax reporting
- Tax report preparation and filing
- Could use some additional integration options with major software providers
- Additional rules for specialized product types would be helpful
- Different systems can sometimes integrate and round differently causing issues with reconciliation