Bainbridge Island, WA,---May 29, 2009--- Avalara (www.avalara.com), the leading provider of Web-based sales tax automation solutions for businesses of all sizes, today announced newly formed partnerships with leading e-commerce partners CommerceV3 and Digital Gateway to provide its flagship service, AvaTax™ to customers for accurate, fully automated, end-to-end sales tax compliance.

 

Avalara’s AvaTax is the industry’s fastest, most accurate, and affordable Web-based tax compliance service available. Coupling AvaTax with CommerceV3’s core product ‘CV3’ on-demand, e-commerce service provides merchants direct access to functionality to grow traffic, drive sales, and increase profits for catalog retailers. AvaTax provides CV3 customers freedom from the time consuming tasks associated with sales tax compliance, inaccurate calculations, and the drain on internal resources.

 

“The looming national Internet tax is continuing to grow in complexity for our Internet retail customers who are devoting more time than ever before on these seemingly annoying processes,” comments Nathan Focht, CEO of CommerceV3. “Partnering with Avalara was a value proposition to our customers and to us as an organization. With 100% accuracy and a 0% increase in labor, we knew we were choosing the best service for our organization and our customers.”

 

Adding those same efficiencies with Digital Gateway’s business management software, ‘e-automate,’ AvaTax provides a comprehensive solution to clients who require resolution and simplicity to their sales tax calculation processes. e-automate manages critical business processes in accounting, inventory, purchasing, sales, and services. AvaTax builds on these strengths by automating sales tax compliance efforts for each of e-automate’s business-critical offerings.

 

“The Avalara team has been absolutely phenomenal to work with,” stated Daron Jones, chief financial officer and chief operating officer of Digital Gateway. “Working to form this partnership has been a great experience and Digital Gateway is excited to offer the service to over 1,000 of our dealers in the U.S. and Canada while additionally making it our own in-house tax service of choice,” Jones concluded.

 

“Our newly formed partnerships with Digital Gateway and CommerceV3 allow Avalara to leverage efficiencies of each OEM’s solution with the AvaTax service to provide a cost-effective sales tax management service for businesses all over the world,” said Scott McFarlane, co-founder and chief executive officer of Avalara. “Together we bring the SaaS model of sales tax compliance to customers everywhere, and we couldn’t be more excited to have these partners on board with us,” McFarlane adds.

 

Avalara is transforming the sales and use tax compliance process for businesses of all sizes by delivering advanced technology solutions that provide the fastest, easiest, most accurate, and affordable way for companies to address their statutory tax requirements. Chosen by nearly 10,000 businesses throughout the U.S., Canada, and abroad, and a trusted provider of over 100 million sales tax calculations annually, Avalara is the recognized leader in web-based sales tax services and solutions. For more information, please visit www.avalara.com or contact Althea Azeff at 206.780.7000 x116.

 

CommerceV3 is a web-based system that allows users to create, populate, customize, maintain, and track e-commerce storefronts. It makes selling online as easy as possible, without sacrificing real power. Designed from the ground up for direct-mail merchants, it features integration with order management packages as well as tools to customize pages, drive traffic, manage online inventory availability, process orders, and track revenue. For more information, please visit www.commercev3.com or contact Marc Bigbie at (912) 964-7848.

 

Digital Gateway provides total business management software solutions for over 1,000 office, banking, and point-of-sale equipment dealers in North America. Their flagship product, e-automate, helps these dealers manage and automate their critical business processes like accounting, inventory, purchasing, sales, service, and more. Since the company’s creation in 1995, e-automate has become the fastest growing management software solution in its industry. For more information, please call 866.342.8392 or visit www.digitalgateway.com.

 

 

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