Build
Guide: 1099 & W-9
Understand the differences between Sandbox and Production environments for Avalara 1099 & W-9, including their purposes, credentials, and features.
Avalara provides 2 different environments for Avalara 1099 & W-9: Sandbox and Production. Each environment is separate, and each has its own credentials. If you have a Sandbox account, you cannot use that account to log on to Production and vice versa.
Tip
When you receive credentials for Avalara 1099 & W-9, you’ll want to record the account number, name, and type. We keep Sandbox and Production credentials separate so you can test your software in Sandbox without accidentally affecting production data.
Consider sharing your Sandbox credentials with developers and reserve Production credentials for accountants. Keeping accounts separate helps avoid the risk of reporting test data to a tax authority.
Table 1.
SANDBOX
PRODUCTION
Avalara 1099 & W-9 endpoint service
https://api.sbx.avalara.com/avalara1099
https://api.avalara.com/avalara1099
Avalara 1099 & W-9 website URL
Content
Latest version
Latest version
Monitoring
24/7 Monitoring
24/7 Monitoring. View Avalara status at Avalara Status
Data
All Sandbox data is are fully separate from Production data.
All Production data is are fully separate from Sandbox data.
Credentials
Production credentials won’t work on Sandbox, so you can’t accidentally save real transactions into the Sandbox environment with a production account.
Sandbox credentials won’t work on Production, so you can’t accidentally create a test transaction in production with a sandbox account.
Forms Filing
Avalara 1099 & W-9 never reports data from Sandbox to a tax authority, so you can test your forms without worrying about accidentally reporting to the fiscal entities.
You can report forms marked as Scheduled in Production on a tax filing using the Avalara eFilling Service.
Updates
Generally updates a few days earlier than Production so that customers can experiment with new releases before they go live.
Updated a few days to a week after Sandbox so that customers can preview the new release on Sandbox before it’s live.
Part of the 1099 & W-9 integration guide. Open the full “Build” milestone on Avalara to see every page in this section.