When Multi-Destination Shipping Scales, Tax Complexity Shouldn’t Slow You Down

If your team handles multi-destination orders, you already know the drill: exciting client projects that should move quickly suddenly stall because of one tedious step, tax calculations. 

Tracking down the correct tax rate for every state, county, or city can eat hours out of your week, and even then, you’re left with the lingering fear of getting something wrong.

Split Ship Taxes are designed to remove that friction entirely. 

Built for Advanced and Enterprise commonsku users integrated with Avalara, this feature automatically calculates accurate taxes for every shipping destination in a single project, helping your team work faster, reduce errors, and maintain compliance effortlessly. 

For mid-to-large distributors managing complex, high-volume orders, this upgrade isn’t just convenient: it’s transformational.

Below are three real-world use cases where Split Ship Taxes deliver immediate and measurable value.

Use Case #1: Large Corporate Programs Shipping to Dozens of Locations

Corporate programs often require sending branded products to multiple offices or event venues across North America. Each location has its own tax rate and jurisdiction rules, which historically meant one thing: hours of manual tax research and spreadsheet work.

With Split Ship Taxes, distributors can upload shipping details for every destination and let the system automatically apply the correct tax rates per location.

Why it matters for your team:

• Faster project turnaround without waiting on tax research
• Fewer invoicing errors
• Increased capacity to take on more multi-location programs 

You didn’t get into this business to calculate taxes; let the experts at Avalara do that for you with Split Ship Taxes.

Use Case #2: High-Volume Event Orders with Time-Sensitive Deadlines

Events don’t wait, and when you're shipping to multiple venues for a roadshow, tradeshow tour, or regional series, accurate taxes can become a major bottleneck. If even one destination’s tax rate is miscalculated, the order can’t move forward, risking delays that impact the client’s timeline.

Split Ship Taxes eliminates this vulnerability. Taxes are calculated instantly and accurately using Avalara’s real-time database, ensuring compliance across all jurisdictions involved.

Why this is a game-changer:

• Keeps production moving without tax-related hold-ups
• Reduces client friction caused by delayed approvals
• Helps teams hit tight deadlines with confidence

Use Case #3: Scaling Operations Without Adding Administrative Overhead

As you grow, the volume of multi-destination orders often increases faster than team headcount. That imbalance leads to overworked operations teams juggling tax research, spreadsheets, and corrections, which is time that could be spent on value-added work for the business.

Split Ship Taxes allows teams to scale efficiently by automating what was once a manual, error-prone process. Avalara-powered calculations adapt to constantly changing regulations, ensuring accuracy even as order volume grows.

What this unlocks:

• Operational efficiency without increasing admin workload
• Lower compliance risk, especially during audits
• Confidence to pursue larger, more complex client opportunities
  
  

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Unlock Smoother, Smarter Multi-Destination Workflows

Split Ship Taxes empower distributors to work faster, reduce compliance risk, and scale without adding administrative complexity: a crucial advantage for teams navigating high-volume, multi-location projects.

If you’re exploring advanced workflows or evaluating whether commonsku’s Advanced or Enterprise features are right for your business, we’d love to help you dive deeper.

➡️ Take a 3-minute self-guided tour of commonsku
➡️ Talk to our team about seeing if commonsku is the right workflow for your business 

So your team can focus on delivering great client experiences, Split Ship Taxes takes care of the tax calculations behind the scenes.