Two ways to work with CactusComply: see the demo, or get paid to share it

Every Arizona business that sells something owes Transaction Privilege Tax, and an uncomfortable number of them are still filing it by hand – reconciling a POS export against city and county rates at eleven at night, hoping the location code is right. CactusComply exists to end that particular evening. Today we are publishing two front doors into it: a walkthrough of the demo and onboarding for the businesses that file, and a partner program for the people who know them.

Door one: you file TPT, and you would rather not

The reason TPT eats a whole evening is not that the arithmetic is hard. It is that a single Arizona receipt can carry state, county and city tax at once, and the correct rate for each layer depends on the AZDOR location code you sold from and the business code you sold under. Food for home consumption at a grocery store is taxed nothing like the same food served at a restaurant – and in some cities the right answer is not a different code at all but a deduction. Add a second location or a second sales channel and the permutations multiply.

CactusComply takes your sales data however it arrives – a CSV, a POS export, a bank feed – and does four things with it.

Two details are worth pulling out, because they are the ones people ask about on calls. First, transactions are explicitly marked – an Arizona taxable sale, a deduction against a specific deduction code, or excluded – and you can trace any figure on the return back to the line it came from. Nothing arrives as an unexplained total. Second, you can just ask the system questions about your own filings in plain language, and retrieval is scoped to your own organization, so the AI answering you cannot see anyone else’s books. That tenant isolation is one of the pieces we filed a provisional patent on.

It is worth saying plainly what happens at step four: CactusComply is an AZDOR-approved eFile transmitter, approved by the Arizona Department of Revenue in April 2026, so the return is transmitted electronically and comes back with a real confirmation number that we store against the period. Returns have been filed and accepted that way on live licenses. If you would rather file under your own AZTaxes.gov login, the app generates the file and walks you through the portal upload – and either way we never ask for your AZTaxes password.

Onboarding is six short steps – welcome, business identity, locations, sales channels, filing frequency, review – and takes five to ten minutes with your AZDOR license number in hand. There is no implementation project and nothing to rip out of your POS. Plans start at $0 to look around and $29 a month once you want the filing output, with a $79 tier for multiple locations and licenses. If you would rather we drove, White Glove is $49 per filing period and back periods can be caught up in buckets of five.

Start here: watch the demo at bit.ly/cactuscomplydemo, then read the walkthrough or go straight to onboarding.

Door two: you know these businesses, and we will pay you

The hard part of this business was never the software. It is that the owner who most needs it is the one with the least time to go looking for it. So the distribution model is deliberately unglamorous: people who already have the relationship make the introduction, and they get paid for it.

The structure, in full, with no asterisks: you register a business in the partner portal, and when that business subscribes you earn half of its monthly subscription for each of its first two monthly payments – $14.50 a month on the $29 Starter plan, $39.50 a month on the $79 Pro plan. That is one full month of recurring revenue per signup. On top of it sits an annual bonus based on how many of your customers are still active that year: $1,000 at 100, rising to $5,000 at 500. You are paid the highest tier you reach; the tiers do not add together.

One mechanic matters more than the rate, and it is the thing partners get wrong: credit comes from claiming the business in the portal before it subscribes, not from a tracking link. Register the business first, then send the demo link. First to register keeps the credit, and a business that is already a paying CactusComply customer – or already claimed by someone else – cannot be claimed again. The portal tells you that the moment you try, rather than after you have done the work.

It costs nothing to join, there is no quota before you are paid, and there is no minimum balance to clear before a payout. The commission is a one-time split over two months rather than a lifetime residual – we would rather be straight about that than dress it up.

Accountants and bookkeepers, specifically

TPT is the return your clients bring you late and incomplete, every month, forever. Putting them on CactusComply moves the data wrangling off your desk while the referral still pays – and your client keeps their own account, so you keep the relationship rather than handing it to a software vendor.

And if you run a room, we will come talk to it

We are actively looking for stages – chambers of commerce, trade and restaurant associations, franchise conferences, grocery and convenience groups, POS user meetings, accounting CPE tracks, and founder or student audiences. Three talks are ready to go: the mechanics of why Arizona TPT returns come out wrong, how we build AI you can safely point at a regulated filing, and what it actually takes to get applied AI from a provisional patent to paying customers. Formats run from a 20–30 minute keynote to a 45–60 minute workshop, a panel seat, or a remote webinar for your member list.

The talks are built to be useful whether or not anyone in the room ever buys software, and member groups get a partner arrangement rather than a sales pitch. If that is you, get in touch.

Frequently asked questions

What is Arizona Transaction Privilege Tax?

TPT is Arizona’s tax on the privilege of doing business in the state. It behaves like a sales tax from the customer’s side, but it is levied on the seller, and it is administered in layers – state, county and city – with rates that vary by jurisdiction and by the business code you file under. It is filed on a TPT-2 return, monthly or quarterly depending on your obligation.

How long does CactusComply take to set up?

Five to ten minutes, across six onboarding steps. You need your AZDOR TPT license number and your location addresses; everything else can be adjusted later.

How much do CactusComply partners earn per customer?

Half of the customer’s monthly subscription for each of their first two monthly payments – $29 in total on a Starter plan, $79 in total on a Pro plan – plus an annual bonus of $1,000 to $5,000 based on how many of your customers stay active in that year.

Do I need to know Arizona tax law to be a partner?

No. Your job is the introduction; the product handles the tax. You are not giving tax advice, and neither is the software.