ACCOUNT_ID

LICENSE_KEY

TRANSACTION_ID

TAX_CODE_ID

CERTIFICATE_ID

CUSTOMER_ID

REPORT_ID

SUBSCRIPTION_ID

TRANSACTION_CODE

COMPANY_CODE

COMPANY_ID

TAX_CODE

ITEM_ID

ITEM_CODE

ADDRESS

Explore Avalara's AvaTax API to automate tax calculations in Python. Learn to set up accounts, customize tax codes, handle product taxability, and integrate with e-commerce applications.

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Avalara offers automated software solutions to businesses for their tax compliance needs. Developers can learn and integrate Avalara’s AvaTax API. The API automatically calculates the appropriate tax on business transactions using the correct tax rates and the rules of the jurisdiction in which the company falls.  

In this course, you’ll learn how to integrate and set up a business account in Avalara. You’ll then learn about the tax codes in Avalara and how to customize them. This course will also walk you through handling product taxability. You’ll also learn to record and manage business transactions so that AvaTax automatically calculates the tax for us. 

By the end of the course, you’ll have hands-on experience integrating an e-commerce web application with the AvaTax API.

Calculating Sales Tax Using Avalara's AvaTax API in Python

https://sandbox-rest.avatax.com/api/v2/companies/{{companyCode}}/transactions

Request Parameters

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# Account ID and License Key
account_id = "{{ACCOUNT_ID}}"
license_key = "{{LICENSE_KEY}}"

# Company Code
company_code = "{{COMPANY_CODE}}"

# Endpoint URL
endpoint_url = f"https://sandbox-rest.avatax.com/api/v2/companies/{company_code}/transactions"

# Creating a basic auth token using account ID and license key
auth_token = requests.auth.HTTPBasicAuth(account_id, license_key)

# Define query parameters here
parameters = {
    "$top": 50,
    "$orderBy": "id ASC"
}

# Making a GET request to the AvaTax API
response = requests.get(url=endpoint_url, auth=auth_token,
               params=parameters)

# Printing response
print_response(response)

Learn to use the AvaTax API to fetch recorded tax transactions.

Fetching Transactions

Name	Type	Parameter Type	Category	Description
`companyCode`	string	Path	Required	This parameter specifies the company code of the company for which we're fetching transactions.
`$include`	string	Query	Optional	This parameter specifies any objects we want the API to add to our request's API response.
`$filter`	string	Query	Optional	This parameter specifies how to filter the transaction results.
`$top`	integer	Query	Optional	This parameter specifies the number of the top transaction results we want to fetch.
`$skip`	integer	Query	Optional	This parameter specifies the number of top transaction results we want to skip.
`$orderBy`	string	Query	Optional	This parameter specifies how to order the transaction results and the basis on which they are ordered. It accepts values in the following format: `"(fieldname) [ASC\|DESC]"`.

Introduction

Manage Company and Product Details

Tax Transactions

AvaTax API Integration in Django

Conclusion

Appendix

Fetching Transactions

Listing transactions by company

Request Parameters