Terms of Service

Pursor prepares and files sales tax returns for your company, as your preparer, from the records in the systems you connect: your shop, your marketplaces, your ledger and your bank. It books each return in your ledger and matches the state’s payment to it, and it reads and answers the notices a state sends about those returns. It also runs a free check of what has been filed in your name. It is software run by people. It can be wrong, and it is built so that a return files only when the figures it is built from agree with each other.

Before Pursor files anything you sign the state’s own authorisation for a preparer or third-party filer, and you confirm the registrations and filing frequencies Pursor should work from. The returns are yours. You are responsible for the completeness of the sales records in the systems Pursor reads and for telling us about a registration we cannot see; Pursor is responsible for preparing and filing correctly from those records, and on time.

Pursor never holds, receives or forwards tax money. The state debits your own account under the payment instruction on the return, and you keep funds there to meet it. Pursor sees that debit on your bank feed the way it sees any other line.

You may connect a shop, a marketplace, a bank, a ledger or a tax provider only where you are authorised to grant that access on the company’s behalf. Pursor reads from the systems you connect. It writes to two places and no others: your ledger, where it posts the sales tax entries a person at your company has done once and switched on, and the state’s portal, where it files your returns. It does not move money, pay a bill or approve a payment anywhere. Every write is recorded with exactly what was sent, every ledger entry can be reversed from Pursor, and the Security page describes each.

You can disconnect any system at any time, from Pursor or from inside the system itself, and doing so deletes what Pursor read from it.

You need authority to act for your company to set Pursor up. Each connection is made by someone at your company who can authorise it, and any of them can be disconnected at any time. You are responsible for who you invite.

$50 for each return filed, nil returns included, and $150 for each state registration completed, plus the state’s own fee at cost where there is one. Nothing else: no subscription, no minimum, no fee for the check, for a notice or for your liability page. Billing is monthly in arrears by bank debit through Stripe, for the returns filed and registrations completed in the month, and the invoice lists each. The price is the same in every state and at every filing frequency, and a change to it applies only to returns filed after thirty days’ notice.

Where a bookkeeping or accounting firm places you on Pursor, your agreement for Pursor may be with that firm; these terms then govern what the firm buys from us, not what it charges you. The guarantee below runs to you either way.

A penalty or interest a state charges because of our error in preparing or filing a return is ours. We pay it, or credit it to you, up to the fees you have paid us in the twelve months before the charge, without forms and without argument. It does not cover the tax itself, a penalty caused by sales records that were missing or wrong in your systems, a registration you did not tell us about, or funds that were not in your account when the state debited it.

Stop at any time by telling us, or your firm, or by emailing contact@pursor.com. Returns already filed are billed; returns not yet filed are not, and we tell you which periods are still open and yours to file. Nothing is paid in advance, so there is nothing to refund. Every return Pursor filed for you, with the state’s confirmation, is handed to you when you go.

What we read, what we keep and what we refuse to keep is set out in the privacy policy, which is part of these terms. The short version: your data is yours, your customers are not ours, and everything we hold is deletable on request once your filed returns have been handed back to you.

Connect only systems you are entitled to connect, and use Pursor only for your own company’s tax. Don’t attempt to break, probe or resell the service.

Pursor prepares returns from your records. It is not advice on how to structure your business, not legal advice, not an audit, and not a system of record; your books are. Where Pursor shows you that a state’s threshold has been crossed, whether to register there is a decision you make, with the facts in front of you.

Pursor is provided as-is. To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability for any claim arising from the service, the guarantee included, is capped at the fees you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses.

We may update these terms; material changes are emailed to the account owner at least 30 days before they apply. If we ever discontinue Pursor, you get at least 60 days’ notice, every return we filed for you, and your data on request before deletion.

These terms are governed by the laws of Illinois, USA. Questions: contact@pursor.com or AndNumbers LLC, 2045 W. Grand Ave, Suite B, Chicago, IL 60612.