Design considerations

Whether you’re a technology partner working to become certified or an API customer, this section describes how you should design your AvaTax application.

Certification for technology partners:

What should your integration's user interface look like? What design elements should you include? For partner certification, this section describes the design elements that are necessary to become certified. These UI elements have been carefully crafted to help you create an integration that’s straightforward and uncomplicated for your users and to help ensure that your integration is tax compliant.

The badge requirements are broken down into the following types:

Required: This design element is required to become certified.
Suggested: This design element isn’t required, but we recommend that your UI includes suggested elements.
Conditional: Depending on your use case, this design element may be required.

API customers:

For API customers, following these badge certification requirements isn’t necessary; however we recommend that you follow these guidelines when using AvaTax APIs in your own systems.