{"id":5168,"date":"2019-11-07T11:33:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T11:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/?p=5168"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:37:17","slug":"new-spree-and-avalara-avatax-v2-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/new-spree-and-avalara-avatax-v2-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"New Spree and Avalara AvaTax V2 integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new officially certified Spree AvaTax extension will help Spree users and developers to switch from the old Avalara REST API V1 to the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.avalara.com\/api-reference\/avatax\/rest\/v2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">REST API V2<\/a>. In the words of Avalara developers, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.avalara.com\/us\/en\/blog\/2017\/01\/from-rest-v1-to-rest-v2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the benefits are huge<\/a>&#8221; as the new API V2 offers improved AvaTax performance, reliability and a wide range of new functionality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And since <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avalara.com\/us\/en\/products\/sales-and-use-tax\/avatax.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AvaTax<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> delivers sales and uses tax calculations at the time of checkout or billing \u2014 in real-time \u2014 the business benefits from implementing the new Spree AvaTax V2 extension are significant, potentially improving conversion rates and sales results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new officially certified Spree AvaTax extension can be found on GitHub:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/spree-contrib\/spree_avatax_official\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>https:\/\/github.com\/spree-contrib\/spree_avatax_official<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Features supported by Spree AvaTax V2 extension:<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tax calculation (additional\/included tax) &#8211; US state tax, Canadian HST, VAT supported<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Address validation for US &amp; Canada<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Committing complete orders<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cancelling (voiding) orders<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Refunding orders<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GetByCodeService for getting SalesInvoice for order from Avatax<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GetTaxService for getting total TaxCalculated for order from Avatax<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AvataxLog for logging API calls<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Caching responses for improved performance<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Multiple company (store) support<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new extension comes with technical support from both the Spree Commerce core team and Avalara and will be maintained to keep up with the innovations introduced by Avalara in the future. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The old extension will no longer be maintained or supported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information, support, and guidance on how to implement Spree AvaTax V2 extension feel free to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>review the new extension <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/spree-contrib\/spree_avatax_official\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">README on GitHub<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reach out through this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/get-started\/\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">contact form<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">join the Spree <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/spree-commerce.slack.com\/ssb\/redirect\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">slack channel #spree-avatax<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/spree-contrib\/spree_avatax_official\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6106 size-medium\" title=\"New Certified Spree and Avalara AvaTax V2 integration\" src=\"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AvalaraCertifiedBadge_SalesTax-300x300.png\" alt=\"New Certified Spree and Avalara AvaTax V2 integration\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AvalaraCertifiedBadge_SalesTax-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AvalaraCertifiedBadge_SalesTax-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AvalaraCertifiedBadge_SalesTax.png 600w, https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AvalaraCertifiedBadge_SalesTax-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/spree-contrib\/spree_avatax_official\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6107 size-medium\" title=\"New Certified Spree and Avalara AvaTax V2 integration\" src=\"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AvalaraCertifiedBadge_Refunds-300x300.png\" alt=\"New Certified Spree and Avalara AvaTax V2 integration\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AvalaraCertifiedBadge_Refunds-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AvalaraCertifiedBadge_Refunds-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AvalaraCertifiedBadge_Refunds.png 600w, https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AvalaraCertifiedBadge_Refunds-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new officially certified Spree AvaTax extension will help Spree users and developers to switch from the old Avalara REST API V1 to the latest REST API V2. In the words of Avalara developers, &#8220;the benefits are huge&#8221; as the new API V2 offers improved AvaTax performance, reliability and a wide range of new functionality.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":5169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,146,52],"tags":[347,346,343,341],"class_list":["post-5168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-integrations","category-open-source-ecommerce","category-open-source","tag-avalara","tag-avatax","tag-tax","tag-taxation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}