Campfire + Avalara

Overview

Avalara is the leading cloud-based tax compliance platform, processing over $50B in transaction volume and serving thousands of businesses across 190+ countries. Avalara automates sales tax calculation, filing, and remittance — eliminating one of the most complex and error-prone compliance obligations finance teams face.

Why connect Campfire + Avalara

Tax liabilities in your books automatically

Avalara calculates sales tax on every transaction and syncs the liability to Campfire as a journal entry. No manual tax accruals, no end-of-period scrambles — your tax liability account is always current.

Audit-ready documentation built in

Every tax entry in Campfire traces back to the underlying Avalara calculation with full jurisdiction detail. When auditors ask questions, your team has answers in seconds — not weeks.

Eliminate month-end tax reconciliation

Avalara filing data and Campfire journal entries stay in sync automatically. Reconciling your sales tax payable account becomes a 5-minute review instead of a multi-day project.

How It Works

1. Avalara calculates and records sales tax on transactions across all jurisdictions, capturing tax by state, county, and locality.
2. Campfire pulls Avalara tax data and creates journal entries for tax collected and tax liability — mapped to your chart of accounts by jurisdiction.
3. At filing time, Avalara remittance data syncs back to Campfire to clear the liability account — your books reflect actual cash paid automatically.

Integration Details

• Sales tax liability entries by jurisdiction
• Tax collected vs. tax payable reconciliation
• Multi-jurisdiction support across all US states
• Remittance entries clearing liability on filing
• Audit trail linking journal entries to Avalara calculations
• International VAT support