Barsa Technologies and Avalara Form Partnership Alliance to Better Serve Small and Medium-Sized Clients in the San Diego market
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Washington, May 19th 2005 – Avalara, the Web-service based sales tax solution provider, has forged an alliance with Barsa Technologies in San Diego. "Small and medium businesses need a better, more affordable and accessible way to calculate sales and use tax for the more than 8,000 distinct U.S. taxing jurisdictions – and we are delivering on those needs with AvaTax ST™," explained Jared Vogt, Avalara's CEO. "To help us reach these businesses in the small and medium business market, Barsa Technologies has joined Avalara as our regional Business Partner."
AvaTax ST™ is currently integrated with more of the SMB market's most popular accounting systems than any other solution, including Best Software's MAS 90® and MAS 200®, ACCPAC Advantage Series™, and Microsoft's Great Plains, among others. Other significant accounting-system integration versions of AvaTax ST are scheduled for release later in Q2 and in Q3.
“Barsa Technologies provides a full range of accounting, distribution, manufacturing, project accounting, CRM and IT management applications for the small to mid-size company seeking a higher level of operational expertise and looking to be competitive in today’s marketplace,” according to Vogt. “Barsa is well-positioned in San Diego to help both their client firms and other small to mid-sized businesses in implementing Avalara’s AvaTax ST.”
“We’re excited to become part of Avalara’s network of business partners,” according to Jo Barsa, President of Barsa Technologies. “We recognize that many of our clients have faced the challenge of determining sales and use taxes for a growing number of taxing jurisdictions – and until now, there were no low-cost, highly reliable technology solutions.”
"AvaTax ST is an affordable alternative to expensive software installations – and time-consuming updates – or worse, to the error-prone, manual system of sales tax calculation many businesses now employ," Rawlings pointed out. "When taking on sales tax calculations internally, Barsa Technologies’ business clients have the harrying task of assigning one or several of the more-than-8000 U.S. tax jurisdictions to a customer's location and grouping all applicable rates to the customer. On top of that, these businesses – and businesses throughout American – have the responsibility to track and apply the hundreds of new sales tax law changes that are enacted in the U.S. market each year.
"Other factors," Rawlings noted, "such as product taxability, exemptions, amnesties and a myriad of statutory regulations, which vary state-by-state, must also be taken into account. The more states in which a business has a legal presence, the more complex dealing with sales tax becomes. Savings generated by replacing such a time-intensive, manual updating system with a web-service solution adds directly to the bottom line."
"With years of experience developing and implementing cost-effective business solutions for their clients in United States, Barsa Technologies brings to Avalara a proven record of success in creating value for end-user businesses and developing business technology solutions to clients’ most challenging needs," Noted Jason Warren, Avalara's Regional Business Manager. "As our business partner, Barsa Technologies is responsible for working directly with clients and prospective end-users – to ensure that their clients – and ours – receive the on-demand sales tax calculation services they need to maximize their own business opportunities."
About AvaTax ST
AvaTax ST is market-leading, Web-service-based sales tax automation solution that that instantly and accurately calculates sales tax for clients in any of the more than 8,000 taxing jurisdictions in the U.S.; provides detailed, real-time resporting; and automatically generates pre-populated returns. AvaTax ST integrates with more SMB financial applications serving more businesses than any other solution on the market today. Integrations include AvaTax ST for Best Software’s MAS 90® and MAS 200®, ACCPAC Advantage Series™, Microsoft’s (MSFT) Great Plains, Navision®, MS Small Business Financials and Scala, among others. Additionally, with AvaTax On-Demand, Avalara’s sales tax Web service can be easily integrated by SDK with any e-commerce, third-party or custom-built solution.
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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 is available at www.avalara.com
To schedule an interview with Avalara CEO Jared Vogt, or Business Development Manager Jason Warren, please call Ned Barnett – 702-696-1200 or email Ned at ned@barnettmarcom.com. To schedule an interview with Jo Barsa, please contact Dixie Scriviner - (858) 481-4462 or email Dixie at Dixie.scriviner@barsaco.com
SOURCE: Avalara
For Avalara
Ned Barnett, 702-696-1200
email: Ned@barnettmarcom.com
For Barsa Technologies
Dixie Scriviner, (858) 481-4462
Email: Dixie.scriviner@barsaco.com
