Using product codes

During onboarding, AvaTax provides you with a product table in ATE. This table contains all the product codes that are valid for each jurisdiction along with alternate product codes. Alternate product codes are useful because some jurisdictions follow the Fuel Tax Administrators (FTA) naming standards and others assign their own codes.

For example, gasoline is FTA product code 065; however, several states use 65. Product codes in transactions must match either a product code or an alternate product code in the ATE product code table.

The following fields are available for each product in a product table:

Master Company: This refers to the company where the data originated from. "Master Company 0" is AvaTax's version of the rates for the product provided out of the box.
Country: The country this product code is available in.
Jurisdiction: The state or region where this product code is available. "TD" represents AvaTax Excise.
Product code: The product code that the state recognizes.
Product description: Indicates the way that a state categorizes or describes a product.
Effective and obsolete dates: These govern the time periods in which those records are effective. For example, a state may occasionally change their laws and obsolete a product code.
Product category description: A concatenated field that gives the AvaTax internal product category number and description.