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Check a transaction's tax line by line in AvaTax
For finance teams who want a transaction's lines reconciled to its header in Avalara AvaTax, just by asking.
On this page
Connector
Connect Avalara AvaTax, pick your AI tool and paste the prompt.
The problem
Wrong tax on a transaction slips through to filing
Checking a transaction's tax in Avalara AvaTax means opening the header, adding up the lines by hand and eyeballing zero tax lines. Wrong tax slips through to filing.
Without PopdockAI
- Open the transaction header
- Add up the lines by hand
- Scan for zero tax and exempt lines
- Miss the line that was never taxed
With PopdockAI
- The transaction is found, and it stops if the code matches several
- Line totals are reconciled to the header
- Zero tax, unexplained exempt and untaxed lines are flagged
- Nothing is added, updated, voided or adjusted
The prompt
Use this prompt
Copy it into any AI tool connected to PopdockAI. Swap the values in braces for your own.
**Objective:** Review the tax on AvaTax transaction `{transaction-code}` and flag anything that looks wrong. If `{company}` is given, restrict the search to that company.
**Step 1: Find the transaction**
Call `avalara-avatax-get-transaction` filtered by `code` = `{transaction-code}` (and `company` if provided). If it matches more than one transaction, list the matches (code, company, document-type, date, status) and stop so the user can choose.
**Step 2: Read the lines**
Take the transaction `id` and call `avalara-avatax-get-transaction-line` with `transaction-id` set to it.
**Step 3: Check the numbers**
* Do the line `line-amount` values add up to the header `total-amount`, and the line `tax` values to `total-tax`?
* Flag lines with `tax` of 0 where `taxable-amount` is above 0 and `exempt-amount` does not explain it.
* Flag lines with an `exemption-number` but no exempt amount, and lines with no `tax-code`.
* Flag a `discount-amount` that exceeds the line amount.
**Step 4: Report**
Give a header summary (code, document-type, status, customer-code, date, totals), a table of the lines with their tax, and a list of findings ranked by size. End with a one-line verdict: looks right, or needs review and why.
**Validation:**
* If nothing matches `{transaction-code}`, say so and suggest checking the company and whether the code is spelled as in the source system.
**Rules & Guidelines:**
* This prompt is read-only. Call only the `avalara-avatax-get-*` tools named above. Never call any avalara-avatax tool that adds, updates, deletes, commits, uncommits, voids, unvoids, adjusts, refunds, locks, settles or creates anything.
* Report what the data shows. Do not guess values the tools did not return, and say so when a field came back empty.
* Use `max-records` to keep each read small, and say when a result may be truncated by it.Who it's for
One answer, three teams that use it
Tax analysts
Check a disputed transaction
See whether the lines add up to the header and which lines carry no tax.
Review the tax on AvaTax transaction SO-20877 line by line.
Billing specialists
Answer a customer's tax query
Find unexplained exempt or untaxed lines before you reply.
Why does Avalara AvaTax transaction INV-2210 show zero tax on some lines?
Controllers
Spot check large transactions
Reconcile a large sale before filing, so errors are caught while they are easy to fix.
Reconcile lines to the header on AvaTax transaction INV-1988.
How it works
What PopdockAI does when you ask
You give a transaction code and your AI assistant checks its tax line by line. It reports what looks wrong and never changes the transaction.
01
Ask
You give the transaction code.
02
Match
It finds the transaction and stops if the code matches several.
03
Reconcile
It adds up the lines and compares them with the header.
04
Report
You get zero-tax, unexplained exempt and untaxed lines.
What PopdockAI provides
The tools behind the answer
Ready made tools for Avalara AvaTax and one secure connection to your AI tool. No code, no exports.
avalara-avatax-get-transaction
avalara-avatax-get-transaction-line
This report is built from Get data tools only. PopdockAI applies the row, field and parameter rules your admin sets, and every query is written to the audit trail.
The outcome
A transaction's tax checked line by line
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