Avalara Introduces State Sales Tax Rates Service For ProStores Merchants; Avalara's TaxRegions Online(TM) Now Provides ProStores Merchants Easy, Online Access to Up-to-Date Sales Tax Rates for All U.S. States.LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- Avalara (http://www.avalara.com) - the provider of on-demand, web-based 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. compliance services, today announced the launch of TaxRegions Online(TM) for merchants with a ProStores(TM) web store. ProStores, an eBay(R) Company, enables small- and medium-sized businesses to establish e-commerce sites quickly and cost- effectively. This new service gives ProStores merchants convenient, affordable access to the sales tax rates they need on a state-by-state basis. With TaxRegions Online, ProStores merchants simply log on to the TaxRegions Online/ProStores storefront, www.taxregionsonline.com, where they can specify the states into which they sell, then purchase all of the up-to-the-minute sales tax rates they need. All corresponding sales tax rates are then uploaded into the merchant's store for use during the shopper's check-out process. "With more than 8,000 sales taxing jurisdictions in the U.S., determining and maintaining correct rates to stay compliant generates unneeded overhead for ProStores merchants," said Jared Vogt, Chairman and 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. "We are pleased that Avalara is introducing TaxRegions Online(TM) as a simple, straightforward option to remove that burden and make e-commerce that much more practical." TaxRegions Online was introduced by Avalara today at eBay's Developers Conference 2006 in Las Vegas, where a product demo is being exhibited. "Using accurate and up-to-date sales tax rates is the first step in sales tax compliance," said Ranjit Mulgaonkar, Vice President of Business Development at Avalara. "Having rates loaded to the merchant's local systems so they can be accessed for every sale removes both manual effort and guesswork for the merchant. The entire process of ordering the tax rates, uploading the rates into ProStores and accessing the monthly updates, is customized, automated and easy to use." ProStores allows store owners to create professional, full-featured online storefronts A store on the Internet that offers items for sale and is capable of handling the financial transaction online. See cybermall and digital money. , fully customized with their own branding and domain name, and offers merchants inventory management capabilities, shopping-cart functionality, search engine optimization Designing a Web site so that search engines easily find the pages and index them. The goal is to have your page be in the top 10 results of a search. Optimization includes the choice of words used in the text paragraphs and the placement of those words on the page, both visible and hidden tools, and integration with the eBay marketplace. Avalara used ProStores' XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. Transaction to develop this integration. "The XML Transaction Engine allowed us to integrate the TaxRegions very quickly into the ProStores platform, and testing was done using the 'sandbox' provided to us by ProStores," explained Simon Blackwell, Avalara's Vice President of Technology. About Avalara Headquartered on Bainbridge Island near Seattle, Washington  This page is protected from moves until disputes have been resolved on the .The reason for its protection is listed on the protection policy page. , Avalara is changing the sales tax landscape by delivering innovative and affordable solutions to small and mid-sized businesses. Avalara's mission is to transform the sales tax compliance process by creating cost-effective, state-of-the-art solutions, and does so primarily through integrated, on-demand, Web-based services that provide transparent transactions, accurate tax compliance, painless pain·less adj. Free from complication or pain: a painless operation. pain  less·ly adv. administration and effortless reporting. Avalara is one of only three sales tax automation providers operating as Certified Service Providers (CSPs) under the multi-state Streamlined Sales Tax program, and is the only one that focuses on small and medium-sized (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. ) businesses.
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