# About this guide

Source: https://developer.avalara.com/vat-ecom/about-this-guide/

Welcome to the AvaTax for VAT Ecommerce integration guide. This guide is geared toward technology partners and API developers whose integrations will support transactions in the following countries/regions:

-   Argentina
-   Australia
-   Austria
-   Bahrain
-   Belgium
-   Canada
-   Chile
-   Columbia
-   Croatia
-   Cyprus
-   Czech Republic
-   Denmark
-   Ecuador
-   Estonia
-   Finland
-   France
-   Germany
-   Greece
-   Hungary
-   India
-   Ireland
-   Italy
-   Japan
-   Latvia
-   Lithuania
-   Luxembourg
-   Malaysia
-   Malta
-   Mexico
-   Netherlands
-   New Zealand
-   Norway
-   Philippines
-   Poland
-   Portugal
-   Romania
-   Saudi Arabia
-   Serbia
-   Singapore
-   Slovakia
-   Slovenia
-   South Africa
-   South Korea
-   Spain
-   Sweden
-   Switzerland
-   Thailand
-   Turkey
-   United Arab Emirates
-   United Kingdom

This guide describes the steps to follow to integrate AvalaraAvaTax for VAT into your ecommerce site. Upon completion, your integration will be able to calculate VAT and retrieve and store VAT codes and invoice messages. We've broken these steps down into individual milestones in the order that you should complete them.

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

**Notice:**  

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