Helped Avalara bring tax solutions to Magento 2 merchants by building a comprehensive connector
Our CEO, Erik Hansen, oversaw the architecture, design, and development of these projects while he worked for Classy Llama, an agency he co-founded in 2007. Avalara is not and has not been a Kraken client.
Erik is a skilled and pragmatic technology/project manager. Over the past year, (starting in June 2018 to December of 2018) he successfully coordinated and communicated aspects of our software development project to create a next-generation Avalara AvaTax integration. This solution is available to online businesses of all sizes and complexity to help enable compliant B2B2C transactional tax calculations using Magento 2 and AvaTax. Using Avalara’s compliance platform and API’s, Erik led his team in all phases of software development and provided valuable usability input and a working solution. Erik and his team delivered to plan; he is a pleasure to work with and I would welcome the chance to work with Erik on challenging technical projects in the future.
Mark Withers
Technical Manager, Avalara
About AvaTax
Avalara AvaTax is a fast, easy, accurate, and affordable way to calculate sales tax, manage exemption certificates, file returns, and remit payments across multiple tax regions, on a global level.
Avalara needed an experienced team to build a connector between Magento 2 and their AvaTax service, as they didn’t have the capability in-house to build and support this connector.
The Solution
Erik led the team that built and supported the connector (although Avalara was not a direct client of Kraken during the development of this project). All development was done in-the-open on Github so that merchants and their implementation partners could see the status of issues, new features, etc.
Sales Tax
Deep integration with Magento’s native tax calculation engine which pulls all rates from AvaTax.
Supports orders, invoices, and returns
Supports all product types (simple, configurable, bundled, etc)
Address Validation
Since AvaTax’s sales tax calculation engine relies on knowing a user’s exact location (rather than relying solely on their zip code), they run address validation on all shipping addresses.
If a user enters an invalid address, they will have the choice to accept the “suggested address” or stick with their “original address”.
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Individual downloads on Packagist*
* The download count is not directly related to how many sites are using the extension, as each site will download the extension multiple times during development and upon each deployment.
Erik was an amazing resource and a very skilled engineer. His thoroughness and expertise were impressive. Having seen over 400 integrations built, his was one of the cleanest I’ve seen.
