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# Before you begin

Welcome to the *AvaTax for Beverage Alcohol Integration Guide*! This guide describes the steps you should follow in order to integrate AvaTax for Beverage Alcohol into your system.

**Important:**

* This document assumes that you are familiar with AvaTax and/or have already integrated AvaTax into your [ecommerce](https://developer.avalara.com/ecommerce-integration-guide/sales-tax-badge/ecom-about-this-guide/), [marketplace](https://developer.avalara.com/marketplace-integration-guide/sales-tax-badge/marketplace-about-this-guide/), or [ERP](https://developer.avalara.com/erp-integration-guide/sales-tax-badge/erp-about-this-guide/) (or property management system) and earned a [Sales Tax](https://developer.avalara.com/certification/avatax/sales-tax-badge/) badge.
* These AvaTax for Beverage Alcohol APIs are only available for beverage alcohol transactions in the US.

**Disclaimer:** The information provided in this Integration Guide is based on standard practices. It is up to each individual developer to determine the applicability of such information and to verify the functionality and use of the information. All information, including examples of code, is provided on an "As-is" basis. Use of Avalara's website is covered by Avalara's site terms located here: [https://www.avalara.com/us/en/legal/site-terms.html](https://www.avalara.com/us/en/legal/site-terms.html).

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> Part of the **Beverage Alcohol** integration guide. [Open the full "Before you begin" milestone on Avalara](https://developer.avalara.com/avatax-for-bevalc/bevalc-about-this-guide/) to see every page in this section.