AvaTax for ProStores Now Available to neoverve Customers
Bainbridge Island, WA—October 22, 2007 – Sales tax technology provider Avalara® (www.avalara.com) today announced a distribution partnership with neoverve® (www.neoverve.com) for the AvaTax sales tax compliance service. neoverve is a master reseller and certified designer of ProStores®, designing and hosting e-commerce stores using the ProStores platform. ProStores is an eBay Company that allows small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to create professional online stores, customized with their own branding and domain name.
While Avalara currently offers an integration to ProStores, the support of neoverve solidifies Avalara’s commitment to alleviating the complexity of sales tax for online businesses. As a result of this partnership, neoverve will offer AvaTax for ProStores to all its customers as a recommended option to automate their sales tax compliance functions—sales tax calculation, reporting, tax returns and remittance.
AvaTax for ProStores offers businesses a sales tax automation service that works in the background of the ProStores store via a secure Internet connection. The easiest, most economical, and most accurate sales tax automation solution available today, AvaTax for ProStores provides sales tax calculation and secure data storage for tax filing and reporting, which are critical functions for Web-based businesses.
“As master resellers and certified designers for ProStores, we have a deep knowledge of the challenges businesses face when manually configuring complex tax tables in their online stores, deciphering reports and filing sales tax in multiple jurisdictions,” said Kurt Davey, president of neoverve.com. “AvaTax for ProStores fills the gap by providing a much needed, end-to-end solution for ProStores merchants. We are happy to offer this new capability to our customers, which in turn will save them costs while providing an accurate, automated and affordable sales tax compliance solution”.
Avalara is equally enthusiastic about the distribution partnership. “Avalara and neoverve are a natural fit for serving the e-commerce market,” said Ranjit Mulgaonkar, Avalra’s vice president of business development. “We’re both committed to providing our mutual customers the best tools available in the market so they can be successful in their business. Avalara’s Sales Tax Management Service (calculation, reporting, tax returns and remittance) is a hosted service and has already been integrated with many e-commerce sites, so this isn’t a new market for us. With neoverve’s unique design and hosting services we will provide a tremendous degree of value for the ever-growing number of online businesses.”
While e-commerce has made it possible for SMBs to compete in locations where they hadn’t previously, it has also introduced new complications, including compulsory sales tax requirements. Although online businesses currently only need to collect sales taxes where they have a physical location, there is legislation pending in the U.S. Congress that could change the laws regarding remote sales tax collection.
DiamondWave, a neoverve customer, has chosen AvaTax to automate its sales tax compliance. “With customers throughout the country purchasing diamond engagement rings and fine jewelry on-line,” said Tom Ceconi, CTO of DiamondWave, our goal is to provide the best values and most dynamic, ‘true-to-life’ diamond and jewelry buying experience on the Internet. Using AvaTax provides us with an affordable, accurate and automated way to deal with all our sales tax needs so that we can focus on our core business.”
About AvaTax™
An SMB market-leading, Web-service-based sales tax solution, AvaTax instantly and accurately calculates sales tax for clients in any of the more than 12,500 tax regions in North America; provides detailed, real-time reporting; and automatically generates pre-populated sales tax returns. Currently, more than 10,000 licensed AvaTax users run an average of five to seven sales tax calculation transactions through Avalara’s sales tax engine every second.
AvaTax comes integrated with SMB financial applications serving more businesses than any other solution on the market today, including Microsoft Dynamics™ GP, Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV, Microsoft Dynamics™ AX, Intuit’s QuickBooks, Sage Software’s Sage MAS 90 ERP, Sage MAS 200 ERP, Sage MAS 500 ERP, and Sage Accpac ERP. 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). AvaTax for ProStores is available for purchase from www.avalara.com/ProStores.
About Avalara
Headquartered on Bainbridge Island near Seattle, Washington, Avalara is changing the sales tax landscape by delivering innovative and affordable solutions to small and midsized businesses. Avalara’s mission is to transform the sales tax compliance process by creating cost-effective, state-of-the-art solutions, and does so primarily through integrated, on-demand and Web-based services that provide transparent transactions, accurate tax compliance, painless administration and effortless reporting. For more information, visit www.avalara.com.
About neoverve
Located in San Marcos, California, neoverve has been providing custom web development and hosting since 1997. Specializing in ProStores, neoverve builds custom eCommerce storefronts, creates custom web applications and integrates ProStores with third party solutions for small to medium ProStores merchants.
About DiamondWave
DiamondWave (www.diamondwave.com), a dynamic diamond and jewelry website, provides an exciting, "true-to-life" diamond and jewelry buying experience using 3-D movies and images. DiamondWave’s specially priced diamond engagement rings and jewelry also make the website one of the best values on the Internet. With an inventory of thousands of GIA certified diamonds, capacity to manufacture the highest quality diamond jewelry and track record of success for over 70 years, the owners of DiamondWave are experts at providing high quality diamonds and jewelry at exceptional pricing. DiamondWave is planning on launching in time for this Holiday shopping season.
