BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. & PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Avalara (www.avalara.com), the leading provider of Web-based sales tax automation solutions for businesses of all sizes, and Stone Edge Technologies, Inc. (www.StoneEdge.com), a leading provider of affordable E-commerce tools for small-to-medium merchants, have entered into an Alliance Partnership agreement. Under this agreement, Stone Edge Technologies will offer an integration with Avalara’s AvaTax™ service, enabling thousands of customers to manage end-to-end sales tax calculation and compliance efforts.

“We always seek to ensure the most elite services available for our over 2,000 online, POS, and traditional mail-order clients,” commented Barney Stone, president of Stone Edge Technologies. “And that meant finding a robust solution to sales and use tax challenges.” Stone furthered, “The solution needed to be accurate, lightning fast, and transparent, and our research led us straight to Avalara.”

Through its AvaTax service, Avalara offers the fastest, most accurate, and affordable Web-based tax compliance service available. Avalara maintains and constantly updates an extensive database of sales tax rates, rules, and boundaries that customers access nearly instantaneously via the Internet. AvaTax operates as a module, providing a fully integrated and automated sales tax management solution, which includes functionality to protect against audits, obsolete data, and changing tax laws.

The Stone Edge Order Manager is a complete business management system with features for managing orders, customers, inventory, purchasing, payment processing, returns and exchanges, and much more. Warehouse management capabilities include systems for receiving, picking, packing, and shipping. The AvaTax integration into the Stone Edge Order Manager system has proven effective for several leading online merchants thus far, with many more to follow.

“Online and brick-and-mortar merchants have enough to worry about without dealing with the complexities associated with constantly changing online sales tax rules, rates, and boundaries,” said Scott McFarlane, Avalara’s president and CEO. “AvaTax integrates directly into the Stone Edge Order Manager system, so their clients gain a comprehensive business solution to their most difficult sales and use tax issues – seamlessly and without thought, time, or worry,” concluded McFarlane.

About Avalara

Based in Bainbridge Island, WA, 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.

About Stone Edge Technologies, Inc.

Based in Plymouth Meeting, PA, Stone Edge Technologies, Inc. has been shipping the Stone Edge Order Manager since 2000. Today it is used by over 2,000 small-to-medium Web, POS, and catalog merchants, including eleven of the 2009 Internet Retailer Top 500. The Order Manager is compatible with over 40 Internet shopping carts and other sales channels. Prices range from $1,995 for the Standard Version to $5,995 for the SQL Server compatible Enterprise Version, with no recurring fees other than optional annual maintenance contracts. For more information, please visit www.StoneEdge.com or call 610-994-3699.