Avalara Announces 75th Solution Provider Joins Alliance Program - Doubling Program Participation Validates Avalara's Leadership Position.Integrations Now Available for a Breadth of Front- and Back-Office Application Types Including ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. , E-Commerce, Retail Point-of-Sale, and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. Applications Transactional Tax Automation Allows Businesses to Achieve Compliance While Saving Time and Money, so They Can Focus on Value-Add Activities for Their Businesses BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. -- Avalara (www.avalara.com), the leading provider of sales, use and VAT tax automation solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, today announced that Exact Software, one of the world's leading providers of business software solutions, is the 75th solution provider to join the Avalara Alliance program. Setting a new record in integrated offerings within the transactional (sales, use and value-added tax value-added tax (VAT), levy imposed on business at all levels of the manufacture and production of a good or service and based on the increase in price, or value, provided by each level. ) tax management application market space and more than doubling program participation since June of 2007, the Avalara Alliance program now includes a breadth of partners representing e-commerce, retail point-of-sale (POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale ) and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions in addition to traditional enterprise resource management (ERP) and financial application providers. With Avalara Alliance partners representing an ecosystem of more than 2 million businesses using one of more than 100 different front- or back-office applications, partners' confidence in Avalara as the unequivocal midmarket sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. leader is clear. In addition to Exact Software, new partners now extending the benefits of a fully integrated sales and use tax Sales and use tax refers to:
VAI Video As Input VAI Voluntary Action Indicated (US FDA) VAI Volleyball Association of Ireland VAI Video Assisted Instruction , Datatel, Everest Software, TDCI and Solarsoft to deliver sales and use tax calculation and compliance solutions to their customers. Growth of the Avalara Alliance program can be attributed to the increasing demands for an affordable sales and use tax management solution for the 85 million small and mid-sized (SMBs) businesses worldwide. As a result of the silent convergence of pressures including increased interstate commerce interstate commerce In the U.S., any commercial transaction or traffic that crosses state boundaries or that involves more than one state. Government regulation of interstate commerce is founded on the commerce clause of the Constitution (Article I, section 8), which , the need for real-time tax calculation and collection during e-business transactions, governmental pressures to increase audits during times of widespread budget shortfalls, and emerging technology advancements now accessible to SMBs, businesses are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. automated solutions integrated into their existing business applications to reduce the burden and complexities of transactional tax compliance. With more than 12,500 taxing regions in North America alone, many with constantly-changing rates, boundaries, sourcing and taxing requirements, the transactional tax applications market is poised to follow the path of the payroll tax Payroll Tax Tax an employer withholds and/or pays on behalf of their employees based on the wage or salary of the employee. In most countries, including the U.S., both state and federal authorities collect some form of payroll tax. market, becoming a commonly outsourced business function. "Transactional tax calculation and compliance is certain to be automated, and Software-as-a-Service is the only practical solution that streamlines the once manual, error- and risk-prone sales tax compliance process from end-to-end - saving time, money and liability along the way," said Scott McFarlane, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Avalara. "Avalara remains the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) leader while our competitors still scramble to switch from traditional enterprise software models. Since AvaTax[TM] and AvaFile[TM] are offered as SaaS, they leverage efficiencies and offer a less expensive, more adaptive sales tax management solution for SMBs." SMBs expect essential functionality to include calculation, collection, reporting and remitting transactional taxes in real-time from their ERP, e-commerce, retail point-of-sale or CRM vendor. "Through our relationships with our Alliance partners, we enable customers to focus on growing their businesses rather than spending excessive time and resources on tax compliance issues," said Marshal Kushniruk, executive vice president of strategic accounts and customer experience of Avalara. Partner members of the Avalara Alliance program not only provide this functionality, but they also benefit from co-marketing initiatives and recurring revenues from margin share. Celerant Technology Corporation, a point-of-sale Avalara Alliance partner, develops in-house and provides high quality, advanced retail management software systems to retail organizations. "We're doing a great deal of work across the nation with multichannel businesses as well as e-commerce, mail order and brick-and-mortar retailers. Finding a streamlined sales and use tax solution was critically important to us," said Ian Goldman, CEO of Celerant Technology. "Partnering with Avalara brings exactly the expertise and efficiency needed for this complex area of retail accounting." EPORIA, an e-commerce Avalara Alliance partner, enables B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business and B2C e-commerce B2C e-commerce The conducting of commerce by companies, government agencies, and institutions with consumers over the Internet. Amazon.com is typical of a company engaged in B2C e-commerce. initiatives for all industries and specializes in e-commerce Web site development and promotion. "After an extensive review of the transactional tax service providers, Avalara emerged as the top choice. Their solution and technical expertise are heads above everyone else. We're proud to offer our clients a seamless integration with Avalara's innovative tools," said Doug Adams, CEO of EPORIA. "EPORIA's e-commerce Web site management tools are easy to use, and our clients expect nothing less. That's why choosing to integrate AvaTax with our e-commerce solutions makes so much sense. The straightforward set-up and invisible, behind-the-scenes calculations make this complex issue as easy for our clients as everything else we do." "Transactional tax is a statutory requirement that impacts every SMB (1) (Small to Medium-sized Business) Also called "SME" (small to medium-sized enterprise), it refers to companies that are larger than the small office/home office (SOHO), but not huge. . In the past, transactional tax functionality within accounting or e-commerce was considered 'nice to have'," said McFarlane. "Today, it's a critical business requirement, and our Alliance members are definitely at a competitive advantage." About AvaTax[TM]: An SMB market-leading, Web-service-based sales tax solution, AvaTax instantly and accurately calculates sales tax for clients and provides detailed, real-time reporting, and effortless returns and remittance. AvaTax serves more businesses than any other solution on the market today and integrates with numerous SMB financial applications, including Epicor Enterprise, Epicor CRS CRS Course CRS Certified Residential Specialist (real estate certification) CRS Central Reservation System CRS Can't Remember Stuff (polite form) CRS Cost Reduction Strategy CRS Consumer Relations Specialist Retail Suite, Microsoft Dynamics[TM] GP, Microsoft Dynamics[TM] NAV See navigation system and navigation bar. , Microsoft Dynamics[TM] AX, Intuit's QuickBooks, Sage Software's Sage MAS 90 ERP, Sage MAS 200 ERP, Sage MAS 500 ERP, and Sage Accpac ERP. Additionally, with AvaTax On-Demand[TM], developers can integrate Avalara's sales tax Web service with any e-commerce, third party or custom-built solution with use of a comprehensive Software Developer's Kit See SDK. (SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). ). About Avalara: Headquartered on Bainbridge Island near Seattle, Washington, Avalara is changing the sales and use tax landscape by delivering innovative and affordable solutions to small and medium businesses. Led by a team of industry experts in sales and use tax, and security and information technology, Avalara is focused on providing the easiest, most accurate and affordable way for businesses to address all their statutory sales and use tax requirements. Additional news and information are available at www.avalara.com. |
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