openapi: 3.1.0
info:
title: Avalara 1099 & W-9 1099 Forms Accounts API
description: The Avalara 1099 and W-9 API automates collection, validation, and e-filing of IRS forms including 1099 variants (1099-NEC, 1099-MISC, 1099-K, 1099-INT, 1099-DIV), 1095 forms, W-2, and 1042-S. It provides endpoints for creating, updating, managing, and filing various IRS information returns.
version: '1.0'
contact:
name: Avalara Developer Relations
url: https://developer.avalara.com/
email: developer.relations@avalara.com
license:
name: Apache 2.0
url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
termsOfService: https://legal.avalara.com/#siteterms
servers:
- url: https://api.avalara.com/1099/v1
description: 1099 API Production
- url: https://api.sbx.avalara.com/1099/v1
description: 1099 API Sandbox
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Accounts
description: Manage AvaTax accounts and license keys
paths:
/api/v2/accounts/{id}:
get:
operationId: getAccount
summary: Avalara Retrieve a Single Account
tags:
- Accounts
parameters:
- name: id
in: path
required: true
schema:
type: integer
- name: $include
in: query
schema:
type: string
responses:
'200':
description: Account details
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/AccountModel'
/api/v2/accounts:
get:
operationId: queryAccounts
summary: Avalara List All Accounts
tags:
- Accounts
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/filter'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/top'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/skip'
responses:
'200':
description: List of accounts
/accounts:
post:
operationId: createAccount
summary: Avalara Register a New Customer Account
description: Registers a new customer account with Avalara through a partner integration.
tags:
- Accounts
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/AccountRegistration'
responses:
'201':
description: Account registered
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/AccountResponse'
'400':
$ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
/accounts/{accountId}:
get:
operationId: getAccount
summary: Avalara Get Account Details
tags:
- Accounts
parameters:
- name: accountId
in: path
required: true
schema:
type: string
responses:
'200':
description: Account details
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/AccountResponse'
/api/v2/accounts/{id}/resetlicensekey:
post:
tags:
- Accounts
summary: Avalara AccountResetLicenseKey
description: "Resets the existing license key for this account to a new key.\r\n \r\nTo reset your account, you must specify the ID of the account you wish to reset and confirm the action.\r\n \r\nThis API is only available to account administrators for the account in question, and may only be called after\r\nan account has been activated by reading and accepting Avalara's terms and conditions. To activate your account\r\nplease log onto the AvaTax website or call the `ActivateAccount` API.\r\n \r\nYou can only reset license with 'Default' license key name.\r\nResetting a license key cannot be undone. Any previous license keys will immediately cease to work when a new key is created.\r\n \r\nWhen you call this API, all account administrators for this account will receive an email with the newly updated license key.\r\nThe email will specify which user reset the license key and it will contain the new key to use to update your connectors.\r\nNote: The reset license key functionality will only be available for existing active license key i.e. when you reset license key for the account, the Default license key will be reset.The reset license key functionality is not available for newly created license keys i.e. license keys other than Default\n\n### Security Policies\n\n* This API requires one of the following user roles: AccountAdmin, BatchServiceAdmin, Registrar, SiteAdmin, SSTAdmin, SystemAdmin, TechnicalSupportAdmin.\n"
requestBody:
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
example:
accountId: 123456789
confirmResetLicenseKey: true
parameters:
- name: Content-Type
in: header
schema:
type: string
example: application/json
- name: X-Avalara-Client
in: header
schema:
type: string
description: Identifies the software you are using to call this API. For more information on the client header, see [Client Headers](https://developer.avalara.com/avatax/client-headers/).
example: AvaTax Postman Collection
- name: id
in: path
schema:
type: string
required: true
responses:
'200':
description: Successful response
content:
application/json: {}
/api/v2/accounts/{id}/activate:
post:
tags:
- Accounts
summary: Avalara ActivateAccount
description: "Activate the account specified by the unique accountId number.\r\n \r\nThis activation request can only be called by account administrators. You must indicate\r\nthat you have read and accepted Avalara's terms and conditions to call this API.\r\n \r\nOnce you have activated your account, use the `AccountResetLicenseKey` API to generate\r\na license key for your account.\r\n \r\nIf you have not read or accepted the terms and conditions, this API call will return the\r\nunchanged account model.\n\n### Security Policies\n\n* This API requires one of the following user roles: AccountAdmin, BatchServiceAdmin, FirmAdmin, Registrar, SiteAdmin, SSTAdmin, SystemAdmin, TechnicalSupportAdmin.\n"
requestBody:
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
example:
acceptAvalaraTermsAndConditions: true
haveReadAvalaraTermsAndConditions: true
parameters:
- name: Content-Type
in: header
schema:
type: string
example: application/json
- name: X-Avalara-Client
in: header
schema:
type: string
description: Identifies the software you are using to call this API. For more information on the client header, see [Client Headers](https://developer.avalara.com/avatax/client-headers/).
example: AvaTax Postman Collection
- name: id
in: path
schema:
type: string
required: true
responses:
'200':
description: Successful response
content:
application/json: {}
/api/v2/accounts/{id}/audit:
get:
tags:
- Accounts
summary: Avalara AuditAccount
description: "Retrieve audit trace history for an account.\r\n \r\nYour audit trace history contains a record of all API calls made against the AvaTax REST API that returned an error. You can use this API to investigate\r\nproblems and see exactly what information was sent back and forth between your code and AvaTax.\r\n \r\nWhen specifying a start and end datetime, please include a valid timezone indicator, such as the \"Z\" present in the examples for the start and end query parameters.\r\nYou can learn more about valid time zone designators at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Time_zone_designators.\r\n \r\nThis API enforces limits to the amount of data retrieved. These limits are subject to change.\r\n \r\n* You may request data from a maximum of a one-hour time period.\r\n* The amount of data and number of API calls returned by this API are limited and may be adjusted at any time.\r\n* Old records may be migrated out of immediately available storage. To request older data, please contact your account manager.\r\n* New records must migrate to available storage before they can be retrieved. You may need to wait a period of time before newly created records can be fetched.\n\n### Security Policies\n\n* This API requires one of the following user roles: AccountAdmin, AccountUser, BatchServiceAdmin, CompanyAdmin, CompanyUser, Compliance Root User, ComplianceAdmin, ComplianceUser, CSPAdmin, CSPTester, ECMAccountUser, ECMCompanyUser, FirmAdmin, FirmUser, Registrar, SiteAdmin, SSTAdmin, SystemAdmin, TechnicalSupportAdmin, TechnicalSupportUser, TreasuryAdmin, TreasuryUser.\n"
parameters:
- name: X-Avalara-Client
in: header
schema:
type: string
description: Identifies the software you are using to call this API. For more information on the client header, see [Client Headers](https://developer.avalara.com/avatax/client-headers/).
example: AvaTax Postman Collection
- name: id
in: path
schema:
type: string
required: true
responses:
'200':
description: Successful response
content:
application/json: {}
/api/v2/accounts/{id}/licensekey:
post:
tags:
- Accounts
summary: Avalara CreateLicenseKey
description: "Creates a new license key for this account.\r\n \r\nTo create a license key for your account, you must specify the ID of the account and license key name.\r\n \r\nThis API is only available to account administrators for the account in question, and may only be called after\r\nan account has been activated by reading and accepting Avalara's terms and conditions. To activate your account\r\nplease log onto the AvaTax website or call the `ActivateAccount` API.\r\n \r\nYou will reference this key using license key name. The existing license key will be using 'Default' as license key name.\r\nHence make sure that the license key name is unique per account considering the existing license key name 'Default'\n\n### Security Policies\n\n* This API requires one of the following user roles: AccountAdmin, BatchServiceAdmin, Registrar, SiteAdmin, SSTAdmin, SystemAdmin, TechnicalSupportAdmin.\n"
requestBody:
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
example:
name: ABCDEFGHIJK
accountId: 123456789
createdDate: '2023-08-13T00:00:00+00:00'
createdUserId: 1
modifiedDate: '2023-08-13T00:00:00+00:00'
modifiedUserId: 1
parameters:
- name: Content-Type
in: header
schema:
type: string
example: application/json
- name: X-Avalara-Client
in: header
schema:
type: string
description: Identifies the software you are using to call this API. For more information on the client header, see [Client Headers](https://developer.avalara.com/avatax/client-headers/).
example: AvaTax Postman Collection
- name: id
in: path
schema:
type: string
required: true
responses:
'200':
description: Successful response
content:
application/json: {}
/api/v2/accounts/{id}/licensekey/{licensekeyname}:
delete:
tags:
- Accounts
summary: Avalara DeleteLicenseKey
description: "Deletes the license key for this account using license key name.\r\n \r\nTo delete a license key for your account, you must specify the accountID of the account and license key name.\r\n \r\nThis API is only available to account administrators for the account in question.\n\n### Security Policies\n\n* This API requires one of the following user roles: AccountAdmin, BatchServiceAdmin, Registrar, SiteAdmin, SSTAdmin, SystemAdmin, TechnicalSupportAdmin.\n"
parameters:
- name: X-Avalara-Client
in: header
schema:
type: string
description: Identifies the software you are using to call this API. For more information on the client header, see [Client Headers](https://developer.avalara.com/avatax/client-headers/).
example: AvaTax Postman Collection
- name: id
in: path
schema:
type: string
required: true
- name: licensekeyname
in: path
schema:
type: string
required: true
responses:
'200':
description: Successful response
content:
application/json: {}
get:
tags:
- Accounts
summary: Avalara GetLicenseKey
description: '
### Security Policies
* This API requires one of the following user roles: AccountAdmin, AccountUser, BatchServiceAdmin, CompanyAdmin, CompanyUser, Compliance Root User, ComplianceAdmin, ComplianceUser, CSPAdmin, CSPTester, ECMAccountUser, ECMCompanyUser, FirmAdmin, FirmUser, Registrar, SiteAdmin, SSTAdmin, SystemAdmin, TechnicalSupportAdmin, TechnicalSupportUser, TreasuryAdmin, TreasuryUser.
'
parameters:
- name: X-Avalara-Client
in: header
schema:
type: string
description: Identifies the software you are using to call this API. For more information on the client header, see [Client Headers](https://developer.avalara.com/avatax/client-headers/).
example: AvaTax Postman Collection
- name: id
in: path
schema:
type: string
required: true
- name: licensekeyname
in: path
schema:
type: string
required: true
responses:
'200':
description: Successful response
content:
application/json: {}
/api/v2/accounts/{id}/configuration:
get:
tags:
- Accounts
summary: Avalara GetAccountConfiguration
description: "Retrieve a list of all configuration settings tied to this account.\r\n \r\nConfiguration settings provide you with the ability to control features of your account and of your\r\ntax software. The category names `TaxServiceConfig` and `AddressServiceConfig` are reserved for\r\nAvalara internal software configuration values; to store your own account-level settings, please\r\ncreate a new category name that begins with `X-`, for example, `X-MyCustomCategory`.\r\n \r\nAccount settings are permanent settings that cannot be deleted. You can set the value of an\r\naccount setting to null if desired.\r\n \r\nAvalara-based account settings for `TaxServiceConfig` and `AddressServiceConfig` affect your account's\r\ntax calculation and address resolution, and should only be changed with care.\n\n### Security Policies\n\n* This API requires one of the following user roles: AccountAdmin, AccountUser, BatchServiceAdmin, CompanyAdmin, CompanyUser, CSPAdmin, CSPTester, ECMAccountUser, ECMCompanyUser, SiteAdmin, SSTAdmin, SystemAdmin, TechnicalSupportAdmin, TechnicalSupportUser.\n"
parameters:
- name: X-Avalara-Client
in: header
schema:
type: string
description: Identifies the software you are using to call this API. For more information on the client header, see [Client Headers](https://developer.avalara.com/avatax/client-headers/).
example: AvaTax Postman Collection
- name: id
in: path
schema:
type: string
required: true
responses:
'200':
description: Successful response
content:
application/json: {}
post:
tags:
- Accounts
summary: Avalara SetAccountConfiguration
description: "Update configuration settings tied to this account.\r\n \r\nConfiguration settings provide you with the ability to control features of your account and of your\r\ntax software. The category names `TaxServiceConfig` and `AddressServiceConfig` are reserved for\r\nAvalara internal software configuration values; to store your own account-level settings, please\r\ncreate a new category name that begins with `X-`, for example, `X-MyCustomCategory`.\r\n \r\nAccount settings are permanent settings that cannot be deleted. You can set the value of an\r\naccount setting to null if desired.\r\n \r\nAvalara-based account settings for `TaxServiceConfig` and `AddressServiceConfig` affect your account's\r\ntax calculation and address resolution, and should only be changed with care.\n\n### Security Policies\n\n* This API requires one of the following user roles: AccountAdmin, BatchServiceAdmin, CSPTester, SSTAdmin, TechnicalSupportAdmin.\n"
requestBody:
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
example:
accountId: 0
category: TaxServiceConfig
name: MaxLines
value: '1000'
parameters:
- name: Content-Type
in: header
schema:
type: string
example: application/json
- name: X-Avalara-Client
in: header
schema:
type: string
description: Identifies the software you are using to call this API. For more information on the client header, see [Client Headers](https://developer.avalara.com/avatax/client-headers/).
example: AvaTax Postman Collection
- name: id
in: path
schema:
type: string
required: true
responses:
'200':
description: Successful response
content:
application/json: {}
/api/v2/accounts/{id}/licensekeys:
get:
tags:
- Accounts
summary: Avalara GetLicenseKeys
description: 'Gets list of all the license keys used by the account.
### Security Policies
* This API requires one of the following user roles: AccountAdmin, AccountUser, BatchServiceAdmin, CompanyAdmin, CompanyUser, Compliance Root User, ComplianceAdmin, ComplianceUser, CSPAdmin, CSPTester, ECMAccountUser, ECMCompanyUser, FirmAdmin, FirmUser, Registrar, SiteAdmin, SSTAdmin, SystemAdmin, TechnicalSupportAdmin, TechnicalSupportUser, TreasuryAdmin, TreasuryUser.
'
parameters:
- name: X-Avalara-Client
in: header
schema:
type: string
description: Identifies the software you are using to call this API. For more information on the client header, see [Client Headers](https://developer.avalara.com/avatax/client-headers/).
example: AvaTax Postman Collection
- name: id
in: path
schema:
type: string
required: true
responses:
'200':
description: Successful response
content:
application/json: {}
components:
schemas:
AccountRegistration:
type: object
required:
- companyName
- email
properties:
companyName:
type: string
firstName:
type: string
lastName:
type: string
email:
type: string
format: email
phoneNumber:
type: string
address:
type: object
properties:
line1:
type: string
city:
type: string
region:
type: string
postalCode:
type: string
country:
type: string
partnerCode:
type: string
AccountResponse:
type: object
properties:
accountId:
type: string
accountNumber:
type: string
companyName:
type: string
status:
type: string
enum:
- Active
- Inactive
- Pending
createdDate:
type: string
format: date-time
AccountModel:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: integer
name:
type: string
effectiveDate:
type: string
format: date
endDate:
type: string
format: date
accountStatusId:
type: string
enum:
- Inactive
- Active
- Test
- New
createdDate:
type: string
format: date-time
modifiedDate:
type: string
format: date-time
ErrorResponse:
type: object
properties:
error:
type: object
properties:
code:
type: string
message:
type: string
parameters:
top:
name: $top
in: query
schema:
type: integer
default: 1000
description: Maximum number of results to return
filter:
name: $filter
in: query
schema:
type: string
description: OData filter expression for result filtering
skip:
name: $skip
in: query
schema:
type: integer
default: 0
description: Number of results to skip for pagination
responses:
BadRequest:
description: Invalid request
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
securitySchemes:
bearerAuth:
type: http
scheme: bearer
description: OAuth 2.0 bearer token
externalDocs:
description: 1099 & W-9 API Documentation
url: https://developer.avalara.com/api-reference/avalara1099/avalara1099/