Sales tax and VAT software for Visma

All of them, and it is worth being precise about why the question matters. Visma is a group rather than a single ERP. Its own site puts it at 150+ companies and says its software operates close to its customers, in their language and under their laws. The Norwegian software site alone filters its integration catalogue across six products: Business NXT, Visma Net, Severa, Payroll, Visma Business and Visma Global. Denmark runs on Visma e-conomic and Finland on Netvisor. Commenda reads transactions, customers and tax codes out of whichever ones you use, through a connector, a REST API, or a mapped monthly file, and consolidates them into one ledger.

In Norway, its ERP line reports to the authority. Both Visma Net and Business NXT state that Nordic rules including the Bookkeeping Act, SAF-T and Altinn are applied automatically, and Business NXT says you are integrated with Norwegian banks and authorities such as Altinn from day one. Outside Norway the answer depends on which company in the group you are a customer of, because each product is built for the market it is sold in. Commenda files across all 50 US states and 70+ countries from one platform, including EU VAT with OSS and IOSS, with amendments where a period needs correcting.

Not that Visma documents. The Norwegian ERP integration catalogue lists no US sales tax application, and neither Avalara nor Vertex appears in it. That is consistent with how the group is built: the products are sold into Nordic markets and carry Nordic tax logic. Practically, you can set up a US tax code by hand and type a rate into it, but nothing maintains that rate, splits it into state, county, city and district, or tells you which states you owe. Commenda applies the rate at the delivery address on every transaction and files the return.

Usually several, which is the part that makes exposure hard to see. Growing out of one market normally means adding another product in the group rather than another company inside the same product. Each one is correct about its own country and blind to the others. Commenda connects each of them and consolidates every transaction into one ledger tagged by ship-to jurisdiction, so a threshold is measured once against one number rather than once per system. Every transaction carries the system it came from, so nothing gets counted twice.

No. Nexus monitoring is not a documented feature of any Visma product, and a Nordic ERP has no reason to ship it. The risk is that a US obligation starts on a threshold rather than on a decision you make, so the first signal is often a notice. Commenda measures your Visma transactions against economic and physical thresholds in all 50 states and 70+ countries and notifies you at 80% of a registration threshold, before you cross. A short questionnaire covers physical presence too, because a warehouse or a remote employee never appears on an invoice.

With where you already owe. Commenda reads your existing Visma transaction history and measures it against each state's economic and physical thresholds, which produces a list of states you have already crossed, states you are approaching, and states you can ignore. Registration follows that list rather than a guess. From there Commenda registers you, calculates on every new transaction, files on each state's required frequency, and tracks remittance per jurisdiction. Your Norwegian reporting stays where it is.

Yes, both, on one platform. Commenda registers for EU VAT and files under One Stop Shop for cross-border B2C sales, plus IOSS for imported goods, alongside intra-community reporting. On the US side it registers in all 50 states, applies state, county, city and district rates, and files on each state's frequency. GST across APAC and Canada runs through the same ledger. That matters for a European seller, because the moment you ship to a US customer you are inside a system with no single rate and no single return.

Yes, and collecting them is the harder half. Nordic VAT has no equivalent, so a resale or exemption certificate is usually the first US concept a European finance team has to build a process for. Commenda sends your customers to a self-service portal that can carry your branding, validates each certificate on upload, stores it against the customer record, and applies it automatically in the states where it is valid. Expiries are tracked and chased, so an exempt customer stays exempt without anyone flagging it by hand.