Bainbridge Island, WA — December 30, 2009 — Avalara (www.avalara.com), the leading provider of Web-based sales tax automation solutions for businesses of all sizes, and CoLinear Systems (www.colinear.com), the leading developer of Windows-based direct commerce applications, have entered into an Alliance Partnership agreement. Under this agreement, CoLinear Systems will offer an integration with Avalara’s AvaTax™ service, enabling its thousands of business customers to manage end-to-end sales tax calculation, compliance, and exemption certificate management efforts.

“Our primary concern is providing an endless supply of seamless, integrated services for our clients, and Avalara’s AvaTax service helps us fulfill this mission,” commented Scott Weaver, president and CEO of CoLinear Systems. “While behind the scenes Avalara is handling the intricacies associated with sales tax calculations, collection, and filing,” Weaver stated, “our clients can focus on running their business without fear of running afoul of the constantly changing rules and boundaries of sales tax jurisdictions.”

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 always-changing tax laws.

CoLinear Systems designs, sells, and supports its flagship product Response, "Professional Direct Commerce & Fulfillment System." Its market-leading order management software combines the familiarity, flexibility, and low cost of a Windows-based application with the power, scalability, and reliability one expects from only top-of-the-line midrange and mainframe systems. Response can be customized to tailor the application and its modular components to meet the unique and evolving needs of the businesses it serves, and most customizations can be performed “in the field” and on-demand by a technically savvy, non-programmer, making it the ideal solution for businesses of all kinds.

“Like CoLinear Systems, Avalara is in the business of helping clients keep their eye on the ball – their own business – rather than on the complexities associated with sales tax compliance,” said Scott McFarlane, Avalara’s president and CEO. “As the outsourced solution provider to thousands of corporate clients, Avalara will help CoLinear System’s plethora of clients obtain this same peace of mind,” 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 CoLinear Systems
Based in Alpharetta, GA, CoLinear Systems is a pioneer and recognized leader in end-to-end direct commerce applications for the Windows/SQL platform. Since its founding in 1985, CoLinear’s flagship product Response has consistently led the market in high-volume, PC-based order processing, fulfillment, and customer service software. CoLinear's clients include some of the world's most respected direct marketing, catalog, mail order, and e-commerce merchants. CoLinear's reputation for delivering powerful, cost-effective solutions is well established and continuously earned. In short, Response is the ideal infrastructure for delivering the broad range of direct marketing and fulfillment functions needed to establish and ensure ongoing operational success. For more information, please contact info@colinear.com, call 1-800-COLINEAR (265-4632), or visit www.colinear.com.