Numeral Review Features, Pricing, Pros & Cons

What is Numeral?

Numeral is a sales tax compliance platform built for software companies, ecommerce businesses, and digital product creators who need to stay tax-compliant—without building an in-house tax team. It automatically calculates, collects, files, and remits sales tax (or VAT) based on where your customers are, what you’re selling, and where you’ve triggered tax obligations (aka “nexus”).

What makes Numeral stand out is how clean and hands-off it is. You connect it to your payment processor—like Stripe—and it quietly handles everything behind the scenes. No spreadsheets. No government websites. No guesswork. Unlike Avalara, which often feels like you’re stepping back into 2012, Numeral is built for modern stacks and teams that care about clean APIs, real visibility, and predictable behavior.

Who is Numeral For?

Numeral is built for:

• Software companies using Stripe, Paddle, Chargebee, or similar
• Digital product businesses selling across the US and globally (like us) 😉
• Founders, operators, and finance leads who want full tax compliance without hiring a dedicated tax team
• Teams that have outgrown manual compliance and are dreading the thought of registering in 20+ states (or even just managing 1—that was us, and it was a LOT)

If you’re not using a Merchant of Record (e.g. Polar) and you’ve crossed $100K+ in revenue, you should have something like Numeral in-place (like last week...)

Numeral Key Features

Nexus Tracking & Automatic Registration

Numeral actively tracks where you’ve triggered tax nexus based on your transaction data, then helps you register in each jurisdiction—without making you figure it out manually.

• For example, "am I supposed to collect sales tax in XYZ state yet?"
• State registration still involves some friction because government websites are absolutely awful to interact with, that said, Numeral helps with this process and minimized the pain.

Tax Calculation & Collection at Checkout

Once set up, Numeral auto-calculates the right sales tax or VAT rate for every transaction, ensuring you're collecting what you need to from who you need to based on where they live.

• It is pretty much invisible behind the scenes, only now, your customers get the right tax charged, and you stay compliant.
• That said, you still need to properly configure and match your various SKUs to the correct classification (some types of products have different tax rates and collection requirements).

Filing & Remittance

Numeral doesn’t just track and collect, it actually files your returns and remits the funds to the right places.

• To understand how amazing this is, I implore you to try paying Sales Tax via the government forms for a single state. I had to do this manually my first 10 years in business. With Numeral, it just does all of this automatically. I WISH I had a tool like this back then.
• All you need to do is just check to confirm it looks right based on your knowledge, and you're all good to go!

‍Numeral Pricing

Numeral doesn’t publish pricing directly on their site, which usually means it varies based on volume, business size, or number of jurisdictions. That said, they position themselves as more affordable and startup-friendly than legacy players like Avalara or TaxJar (if only I could get across just how much of a mess the usage-based pricing of Avalara was, and how many ghost fees I was charged... Just avoid it at all costs).

That said, use our link to sign-up and let them know we sent you, and you'll get an exclusive discount of your first few months (full Numeral discount details here).

If you’re spending hours a month on sales tax (or more likely, completely ignoring it) Numeral will save you both time and liability, which is far more expensive than whatever you'd pay in subscription fees.

Final Verdict

Is Numeral worth it?

If you’re running a business that collects payments online and you aren’t using a Merchant of Record, you need something like Numeral. Otherwise, you're likely breaking the law.

Avalara and older platforms feel like they were built for accountants at the oldest enterprise companies. Numeral was clearly built for modern software teams, indie founders, and modern businesses that just want to have their sales tax handled. It’s easy to integrate and actually delivers on automating the sales tax compliance pain-points.