Vertex Smart Categorization

Smart Categorization recommends a Vertex tax category for each supported product. Confidence indicators show reviewers where to focus, so they can approve or adjust recommendations before exporting validated mappings. Vertex tax experts separately refine recommendations over time.

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Broad categories create tax risk, one product at a time.

When a product is mapped too broadly, the tax outcome follows. Some items get taxed when they shouldn't be. Others miss an exemption. Across a large catalog, those errors add up and become harder to defend.

 Broad categories cost you, one product at a time

Turn product data into tax-ready category recommendations.

Vertex Smart Categorization is an AI application for product tax categorization in US sales and seller's use tax. It maps supported products to the Vertex tax categories that power tax determination, backed by nearly five decades of tax content. Your team reviews every recommendation before it's used, and each approval is recorded.

Taxability you can defend down to the product.

From your first catalog mapping to every new product after it.

Onboard products faster.

Get category recommendations for bulk product files, with less repetitive research and setup.

Focus review where it matters.

High, Medium and Low confidence indicators and supporting attributes show which items need a closer look.

Keep mappings consistent.

Business units, sellers and channels follow one review process and map to the same Vertex categories.

Stay in control of every decision.

Reviewer actions, notes, and mapping history are recorded, while your team makes the final call. Vertex tax experts monitor model performance.

A controlled path from product data to approved mapping.

The same steps apply whether you're mapping a new catalog or checking one you already have.

  • Step 1: Upload. Load product files in batches.
  • Step 2: Analyze. Smart Categorization compares each product against Vertex tax content and proposes a category with a High, Medium or Low confidence level.
  • Step 3: Review. Your reviewers approve the recommendation or choose another category.
  • Step 4: Export. Export approved mappings into your tax process.

Features

Specific categories, not broad ones.

Recommendations go to the most specific Vertex category your product data supports.

Sort by confidence, pick from the category tree.

Sort the review queue by High, Medium or Low, and choose an alternative directly from the Vertex category tree.

Product attributes in view.

Where reliably sourced, attributes such as ingredients, packaging, weight, size and volume appear next to the recommendation.

Bulk and concurrent uploads.

Files up to 30 MB or 100,000 rows each, with several uploads running at once.

One workspace for every categorization decision.

One workspace for every categorization decision.

See recent uploads and their status, category trends, mapping history and audit reports in one place. Pick up where you left off or start a new upload. Approved results export when they're ready.

The evidence behind every product decision.

Evidence behind every categorization decision.

Every mapping decision is recorded with the reviewer action behind it. When an auditor asks how a product was classified, download an audit package that shows both. Smart Categorization supports US sales and seller's use tax for in-scope retail and wholesale product categories.

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Bring a sample of your catalog.

 A Vertex tax expert will show you how Smart Categorization maps it and what your reviewers would see.