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# Get started

Learn how to integrate AvaTax for Hospitality into your system for lodging transactions in the US.

Welcome to the *AvaTax for Hospitality Integration Guide*! This guide describes the steps to integrate AvaTax for Hospitality into your system.

This document assumes that you are familiar with AvaTax and have already integrated AvaTax into your ecommerce, marketplace, or ERP (or property management system) and earned a [Sales Tax](https://developer.avalara.com/certification/avatax/sales-tax-badge/) badge.

These AvaTax for Hospitality APIs are only available for lodging transactions in the US.

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> Part of the **Hospitality** integration guide. [Open the full "Get started" milestone on Avalara](https://developer.avalara.com/hospitality-integration-guide/tpd6373686358981/) to see every page in this section.