Generate an authorization token and incorporate it into a standard ecommerce integration workflow.

Generate a token

Before you can launch the ecommerce plugin, you need to send an API call to request an authorization token. Generate a separate authorization token for each customer. Generate this token using the AvaTax API:

AvaTax: Refer to the Create ecommerce Token documentation. Use an AvaTax username and password to authenticate.

Try generating the token and combining it with various parameters at the ecommerce Plugin Demo on developer.avalara.com. Alternatively, you can use an API client such as Postman to send the API call. Once the token is created, place the returned token value for that customer record in the token field in the ecommerce SDK code.

Understand the basic workflow

This section provides the code snippet to use with you ecommerce integration. This code snippet includes only the following required fields:

ship_zone: The state or province to which the exemption certificate applies.
token: The authorization token that you generated in the previous section.

With this configuration, the user is guided through the process of creating an exemption certificate. The certificate is added as a valid exemption certificate in your account, and usually the customer can make an exempt purchase right away.

This basic configuration is a good option if you want your customers to create a new exemption certificate each time they make a tax-exempt purchase on your ecommerce platform. If you prefer to manually validate certificates or let your customers view their existing exemption certificates, refer to the "Customize your worklfow section" that follows.

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