Sales Tax Automation Web Service Now Integrates With Sage MAS 500 ERP
Avalara’s Innovative AvaTax ST™ Helps Small, Mid-Sized Businesses Solve Operational Hassle
San Diego, California – November 2, 2005: Sage MAS 500 ERP users can now automate sales tax research, calculation, reporting and returns for any of the more than 8,000 North American sales tax jurisdictions, using Avalara’s new edition of AvaTax ST™ for Sage MAS 500 ERP. Avalara announced the new integration, created by South Carolina-based Baker Consulting, LLC, at the November 2-6 Sage Summit customer conference in San Diego, where a “first look” at AvaTax ST for Sage MAS 500 ERP is being exhibited.
“Minimizing necessary and costly operational tasks to enable smaller businesses to focus on their bottom lines is a constant challenge.” according to Jared Vogt, Avalara’s CEO. “Our new edition of AvaTax ST for Sage MAS 500 ERP provides a long-needed, fully integrated solution for SMB businesses that can reduce new customer and order entry time by 70% or more – while, at the same time, removing sales tax audit risks for those businesses. We have designed and priced this solution to enable any business to reap the operational and financial benefits of comprehensively automating their sales tax compliance function.”
Danny Baker, Principal of Sage custom developer and reseller, Baker Consulting, LLC., agrees. “Web-service solutions like AvaTax ST offer flexible, on-demand services at a fraction of the cost and time investment it takes to purchase and maintain software in-house,” Baker said. “That’s the kind of value-added offering our Sage MAS 500 ERP clients are looking for, and that is the reason we have taken on the development of this important new business management tool.”
“Businesses using AvaTax ST never have to deal with the time-consuming task of researching or maintaining sales tax rates again,” Vogt added. “And why should they? Compliance is a cost to their business that, other than fulfillment of a statutory requirement, has no strategic value, and we eliminate that cost – replacing it with a cost-saving benefit that drops directly to the bottom line.” AvaTax ST for Sage MAS 500 ERP monthly subscription prices start at under $100 per month, plus a one-time-only activation fee.
About AvaTax ST™
An SMB market-leading, Web-service-based sales tax solution, AvaTax ST 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 reporting; and automatically generates pre-populated returns.
AvaTax ST comes integrated with SMB financial applications serving more businesses any other solution on the market today, including Intuit’s QuickBooks, Sage Software’s Sage MAS 90 ERP, Sage MAS 200 ERP, Sage MAS 500 ERP and Sage Accpac ERP; Epicor’s iScala; and Great Plains, Navision®, and MS Small Business Financials from Microsoft Business Solutions. Additionally, with AvaTax On-Demand™ developers can integrate Avalara’s sales tax Web service with any e-commerce, third party or custom-build solution with use of a comprehensive Software Developer’s Kit (SDK).
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
About Baker Consulting, LLC
Baker Consulting, LLC is a leading regional consulting firm providing business management solutions to a broad spectrum of companies throughout the Southeast. With offices in Greenville and Columbia, SC, Baker Consulting features products and services based on the Sage Software family of solutions. For additional information, visit Baker Consulting on the web at www.bakerconsultingllc.com.
For more information, contact:
Avalara: Baker Consulting, LLC
Ned Barnett Carla Davidson
ned@barnettmarcom.com cdavidson@bakerconsultingllc.com
702-696-1200 864-286-1240
Christina Opalka
christinao@avalara.com
206-780-7035
