Fiscal Sponsor Organizations

  • 1.  Collecting Sales Tax

    Posted 09-26-2025 18:09

    Has anyone have any experience with sales tax services such as Avalara, TaxJar, TaxCloud, etc? We may be moving towards a product that we will be offering to our membership that could be taxable in their state. Ugh.



  • 2.  RE: Collecting Sales Tax

    Posted 09-26-2025 18:38
    Avalara is good, if it is set up correctly. If not, you will spend all your time trying to get it right, Their support is comparable to any big-box SaaS — that is to say, it is difficult to get a human with actual tax expertise on your problem. If it were me and this was an option, I would pick a commerce platform that has sales tax support and keep it all in one place. Stripe has an add-on for tax that would probably do the trick.


  • 3.  RE: Collecting Sales Tax

    Posted 10-03-2025 11:57
    100% agree, Harry! Chip: it depends on what you are trying to achieve. For example, we have seen a few fiscal sponsors that sell merchandise using Shopify, which has tax calculations built in.