LOVAT vs. Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
LOVAT
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Tax software for VAT/sales tax filing. LOVAT platform collects all tax data across any sales channel and files VAT returns in a minute. Accurate VAT calculation, tax due reminders, automatic filing, free data storing with the real-time support of tax expert team available. LOVAT enables the user to register a business for VAT and sales tax purposes in foreign countries where it stores goods or where it is selling products or services. LOVAT specializes in helping…
$40
Best option for small sellers and new companies
Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE is a portfolio of tax and accounting technology for corporations designed to help users boost collaboration with departments and partners and ensure seamless tax compliance no matter where a company does business.N/A
Pricing
LOVATThomson Reuters ONESOURCE
Editions & Modules
Start-Up
40/month
Best option for small sellers and new companies
Standard
80/month
Most popular option for your VAT Compliance
Premium
500/month
Top quality level of VAT Compliance
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LOVATThomson Reuters ONESOURCE
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
LOVATThomson Reuters ONESOURCE
Considered Both Products
LOVAT
Chose LOVAT
LOVAT offered the complete package of dealing not only with Sales Tax but with VAT and GST as well. More so, LOVAT operates in many states, and countries, giving it a universal acceptance and credibility. Finally, LOVAT has automated most of its tax obligations, therefore, …
Chose LOVAT
LOVAT has deployed a live chat channel, for immediate consultation and engagement when some Tax issues arise. Besides, LOVAT has comprehensive tax information regarding different states or countries, hence, reliable and convenient. Lastly, with LOVAT, filing the US and EU VAT …
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The good pricing and short time of waiting answer from the Lovat team became the striking point when making a choice. More so, Lovat has elaborate VAT procedures for several countries, making the program efficient in many states. The demos or video explanations increase the …
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LOVAT is much easier to use and the onboarding process was excellent. More so, LOVAT has a standard of acceptance globally, where some countries like EU and US are included in the set features. Finally, LOVAT has adequate automation, which brings accuracy, and improves state …
Chose LOVAT
LOVAT has good value for money. We choose them as an inexpensive solution because our priority is to save the money we earn. It took some time to learn how to use the full functionality, but after learning, the software performs the tasks effectively with no challenges in the …
Chose LOVAT
The pricing and design along with the features were the factors that caught our attention. LOVAT developer established prices that are easy to acquire, for even small companies, and the product brings some economical aspect, compared to the entire installation amount. Lastly, …
Chose LOVAT
Lovat is a product which is favorable in terms of cost, unlike the many tax software which are expensive and not affordable.Also, Lovat has some flexibility, where different procedures based on the companies demands can be personalized to suit its needs. Lastly, Lovat works in …
Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE
Chose Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE
As said, Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE has been a great resource for Company and industry information; especially the more elusive private Company information which is hard to find on the public domain apart from the company website or sources, which could be marketing biased. The …
Chose Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE
As I said it is an easy-to-use platform and saved us time and money. They have great customer service and have helped our company get new hires checked and in-service faster than our old company. By combining the two services in one place it has made it easier for the new hire …
Chose Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE
Thomson Reuters has a central location for the documents. It is time saving and truly is streamlined which is one of the main reasons why this program beats out the competition. Most of the areas that one source is lacking is at the very least the equivalent or better than the …
Chose Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE
OneSource is behind Avalara in many ways. However, at our time of implementation Avalara could not handle some of the calculations we required. That has changed since.
Chose Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE
We've considered numerous income tax compliance tools in the past, including ProSystems. However they've never lived up to the billing of the ONESOURCE Income Tax module.

Additionally, we've considered Corp-Tax, but it just didn't have the look and feel of the ONESOURCE …
Chose Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE
ONESOURCE blows Sovos out of the water. would take ONESOURCE 10 out of 10 times. The two biggest differentiators are the friendliness and helpfulness of customer support and the overall capabilities of the software.
Chose Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE
Sabrix/Onesource provides truly global content - Vertex is not there yet. If a business operates in US only, both Sabrix and Vertex would be good choices.
Features
LOVATThomson Reuters ONESOURCE
Type of tax
Comparison of Type of tax features of Product A and Product B
LOVAT
10.0
Ratings
24% above category average
Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE
7.7
Ratings
2% below category average
Sales and Use Taxes10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
VAT / GST Taxes10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Cross-border Taxes00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Energy and Fuel Taxes00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Tax Reporting & Compliance
Comparison of Tax Reporting & Compliance features of Product A and Product B
LOVAT
10.0
Ratings
24% above category average
Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE
7.8
Ratings
0% below category average
Geolocation for Tax Assessment9.90 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Tax Data Reporting10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Compliance Administration Management10.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Tax Document Management10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
3rd-Party Software Integrations00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Tax Exemption Processing00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Complex Tax Scenario Management00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
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Avalara
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LOVAT
LOVAT
Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
LOVATThomson Reuters ONESOURCE
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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5.0
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Likelihood to Renew
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8.0
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Support Rating
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5.9
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
LOVATThomson Reuters ONESOURCE
Likelihood to Recommend
Lovat has all the useful features for the needs of my small businesses. The best part about Lovat is that even lay users with no accounting knowledge can find it easy to use this soft. Besides, Lovat has well-explained tax policies, which are essential in noting or understanding the entire business operations. Lastly, for filing returns, Lovatis the savior, for small enterprise.
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ONESOURCE is well suited for organizations that want to maintain their compliance efforts within a single platform. Most of the software looks and operates in a similar manner, which makes it easy to navigate and integrate yourself into additional products. Additionally, the ONESOURCE platform is a great platform for anyone looking for a provider that stays on top of tax law changes and will quickly integrate the changes into their product.
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Pros
  • I love that we don’t need to send tax transaction data for our sales to LOVAT – it is simply integrated with our e-stores!
  • It makes the process so much faster than filling excel spreadsheets or uploading manually. At the end of the month, we simply see all of the data in our LOVAT account.
  • Collecting data takes time, and it's a waste of time when we can do it digitally.
  • I like that we can make some fields required and some optional and that I can use multiple selling platforms and be sure that I'm getting valid tax data.
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  • The ability to recall data from prior years is great. We constantly get requests to pull prior year forms and the system allows us to complete these requests efficiently.
  • The ability to track tax information events (such as print filing dates, b-notices, and recipient responses) is a huge benefit of ONESOURCE and is one of the main reasons we utilize their service over that of their competitors.
  • ONESOURCE customer service is highly responsive. One of the huge benefits of working with ONESOURCE is the assigned CES who answers any & all questions relating to not only the software itself, but the underlying tax requirements and due dates, etc.
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Cons
  • Some processes take extra time
  • It will take some time and preferably a demo call with the support team to learn how to use the software yourself
  • Unfortunately, consultation on really difficult questions can be obtained only for an additional fee
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  • High TOC. No patching strategy for Onesource. Each bug fix is basically a new implementation, requiring an end-to-end regression test for SSabrix/Onesource and each connected ERP.
  • Lack control of developments. Often a bug fix release contains changes to other - undocumented - areas within the application which leads to multiple implementation iterations.
  • Limited collaboration with ERP providers. If something goes wrong in the connector to an ERP system (e.g. due to ERP version upgrade), Thomson Reuters is not as connected with the ERP vendor as could be desired i.e. the burden of connecting the ERP provider with the Onesource provider (TR) is laying with the customer. This is especially true for the Oracle Fusion integration.
  • High project cost. When connecting to an ERP system for the first time , the integration with Sabrix is costly due to the need for connector development (less for the actual Sabrix configuration).
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Likelihood to Renew
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To reiterate - a very useful tool for private company information, otherwise not forthcoming on the public domain. It is very crucial in Company analyses for various lenses, slices and dices of Company information. Also useful in industry analysis and in list building. Overall a great research and analytics tool.
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Usability
The functionality is very powerful, and everything works as promised. But the interface needs improvement in places - sometimes you have to search for something longer than you would like.
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Support Rating
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The ONESOURCE support has improved significantly over the years. Support sends out emails with the answer provided which helps in the future when the same issue occurs. This reduces the amount of calls to ONESOURCE Support as you can better document the calls and rely on previous answers if the same issue occurs. ONESOURCE support has also implemented a callback feature that reduces the amount of time spent on hold.
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Alternatives Considered


LOVAT is much easier to use and the onboarding process was excellent. More so, LOVAT has a standard of acceptance globally, where some countries like EU and US are included in the set features. Finally, LOVAT has adequate automation, which brings accuracy, and improves state compliance and financial standard policies.
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Thomson Reuters has a central location for the documents. It is time saving and truly is streamlined which is one of the main reasons why this program beats out the competition. Most of the areas that one source is lacking is at the very least the equivalent or better than the competition so the parts that it does better really elevates the software against the competition
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Return on Investment
  • Save us a lot of time and nerves by avoiding manual tax computations.
  • It is better to be sure when you deal with tax offices, and LOVAT has brought about the accuracy.
  • Finally, the taxation process has been expense friendly using the application.
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  • By moving the tax return preparation process in-house by utilizing ONESOURCE, the company has significantly reduced the costs associated with filing the income tax returns.
  • ONESOURCE has given the company better control over the data.
  • By utilizing ONESOURCE, the company has better internal documentation that will assist in defending future audits without having to rely on outside accounting firms.
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