# Exemption Certificate Management — MCP | Avalara Developer

Source: https://developer.avalara.com/products/ecm/mcp/

## Avalara Exemption Certificate Management MCP server

## Overview

Provides access to the Avalara Exemption Certificate Management API for managing certificates, customer profiles, and company data.

## MCP client setup

### Cursor

#### Install MCP Server

Add the Avalara Exemption Certificate Management MCP server to your IDE

Or manually add to your MCP settings:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "avalara-ecm": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.avalara.com/ecm"
    }
  }
}

View Cursor MCP server documentation [Link](https://cursor.com/docs/mcp)

## Tools

Name

Description

Sample prompt

get\_certificates

Retrieves certificates for a company with filtering, pagination, and include options. Supports listing all certificates or retrieving a specific certificate by ID.

Get all valid certificates for company {company\_id}, or show me the expired certificates.

get\_customers

Retrieves customers for a company with filtering, pagination, and include options. Supports listing all customers or retrieving a specific customer by ID.

Get all active customers for company {company\_id}, or show me customer details with certificates included.

search\_companies

Searches companies by name to retrieve company IDs, which are required for other ECM operations.

Find companies with avalara in the name to get the company IDs.