About this guide

This guide describes the steps you should follow in order to integrate Avalara AvaTax Refunds into your system. This guide also assumes that you have already completed requirements for the Avalara Sales Tax badge.

For technology partners, this document includes a Certification Requirements section for you to quickly ascertain what needs to be accomplished in order to earn an Avalara Refunds badge. The badge requirements are broken down into the following types:
- Required: This design element is required in order to become certified.
- Suggested: This design element is not required, but we recommend that your UI includes suggested elements.

Note that certification does not entail a code review from Avalara. The requirements are provided to help you create an integration that is straightforward and uncomplicated for your end users and to help ensure that your integration is tax compliant.

For API customers, we recommend that you, too, follow this guide when using AvaTax APIs in your own systems.

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