Avalara Plugins

stehta wrote:
Our plugin is not called for each page load. Please see the implementation here. As you can see we cache results becased on the address used for tax calculation. So it's invoked only once for each unique address

After going through the upgrade we now have this issue with Avalara in 4.2. The plugin simply will not install. Other will without issue. However, clicking install and reloading the list of plugins leaves the status of the Avalara plugin in the same uninstalled state. How frustrating....

Unless you already signed up, use something else - the system is complicated and it will cost you a lot. Keep an eye on API calls as NOP is most likely paid by Avelara for each customer they bring in, and Avetax makes $$ on API calls, so they want many API calls for each order.
Manoj at Execula can help you rewrite the plugin so it only makes one call / order. [email protected]

TaxJar works well for me, Jatin can help you [email protected]

stehta wrote:

Hi.
I just tested the installation and uninstallation of the Avalara plugin on a clean 4.20 instance, everything works like a charm.
Try to see what is written to your system logs during an incorrect installation.

@RomanovM - We have the plugin installed and working in UAT thus far. One comment and one question. First, the uninstall is taking 3 hours. It looks like this runs a check against customer records or something similar to delete records. So the more customer records the longer this takes to uninstall. Does this sound correct>

Remaining question - Can I have a different tax provider per store in a multi-store setup? We have US and Canada stores in the same installation. They have different tax needs. US store needs Avalara, Canada store needs fixed rates (manual). Is this possible?

stehta wrote:

Correct. At the moment, when uninstall the plugin, all entries of customers, products, tax categories and some more entities are checked to remove the added generic attributes. It really can be time consuming. I created an issue to optimize this process.

stehta wrote:

Now there is no full support for separate tax providers for a multistore. But you can use the workaround: install two plugins (Fixed rate and Avalara), mark as primary provider the Avalara, and set plugin Avalara as limited to stores (choose US store). This will provide the behavior you need.

I will heed your advice. Thanks for the quick response!

RomanovM wrote:

Hello-

I enabled logging for 2 weeks, and there are 1/2 million records. The configuration screen only allows to delete 100 records at a time.....it will take forever.

Where is this log? I looked for a table in the database, but can't find one, and I also don't see it in the App_Data or Avalara plugin folder??

Thanks,
Steve

Look for a db table called "TaxTransactionLog":
https://github.com/nopSolutions/nopCommerce/blob/da16e72558f437c696c5e11a9c37025a6f9743b7/src/Plugins/Nop.Plugin.Tax.Avalara/Data/SchemaMigration.cs#L33

af1racing wrote:
Thanks!