DAVO Sales Tax vs Numeral

DAVO Sales Tax automates sales-tax collection, filing, and payment from a connected point-of-sale system. Each day it moves the exact tax collected into a separate holding account, then files state returns and pays the amount due. Listed integrations include Clover, Square, Toast, Lightspeed, SkyTab, SpotOn, TouchBistro, Revel, Payanywhere, QuickBooks, and other POS systems. Users receive daily sales and tax report emails and can view sales information, tax details, and payment confirmations online. Reports, returns, and historical data have unlimited storage. The web service provides live setup help, continuing chat and technical support, and scheduled onboarding calls. DAVO says setup takes about five minutes after connecting a POS and entering business, tax, and bank information. It is designed for small brick-and-mortar businesses such as restaurants, salons, spas, and retail shops. The first monthly filing is free through the activation month; a paid subscription begins automatically the following month unless canceled. No plan price is listed, and there is no free plan.

Numeral provides sales tax, VAT, and GST services through an API. Listed capabilities include sales-tax calculation, tax registration, and automated return filing. Its free Monitoring plan has no listed price and includes a nexus study, physical and economic nexus monitoring, threshold alerts, and exposure and historical-liability audits. Professional costs $75 a month; standard accounts run month-to-month and are billed as filings occur. That plan covers registrations, filings, remittance, autofile and autoregister, virtual-mailbox monitoring for tax mail, AI product classification, and exemption-certificate management. Professional registration costs $150 a month as a one-time registration fee per state and covers state registrations and support. Enterprise has no listed price and adds global coverage, a tax engine, API access, tax-lawyer consultations, and advanced reporting and analytics. Numeral was founded in 2022. The listed platform is API, so the available interface is intended for software integration rather than a separately described web application.