Press Release
Sales Tax Automation Web Service Now Integrates With Microsoft Dynamics™ GP 9, NAV
Avalara’s Innovative AvaTax™ Helps Small, Mid-Sized Businesses Solve Operational Hassle
Bainbridge Island, Washington – March 28, 2006: Microsoft Dynamics GP 9 and NAV 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™ for Microsoft GP 9 (formerly Great Plains) and NAV (formerly Navision). Avalara announced the new integration at the annual Microsoft “Convergence 2006” user and partner conference, where a “first look” at AvaTax for Microsoft Dynamics GP 9 and NAV are being exhibited.
“Taking away the burden of calculating sales tax – thereby enabling smaller businesses to focus on their bottom lines – is a constant challenge.” according to Jared Vogt, Avalara’s CEO. “Our two new integrations – AvaTax for Microsoft Dynamics GP 9 and AvaTax for Microsoft Dynamics NAV – provide a long-needed, fully integrated solution for SMB businesses. By using AvaTax with their accounting software packages, SMB businesses can reduce new customer and order entry time by 70% or more – while removing sales tax audit risks for those businesses at the same time. To meet the needs of our small business clients, we have designed and priced this solution to enable any business – but especially smaller businesses – to achieve operational flexibility and real financial benefits – all by comprehensively automating their sales tax compliance function.”
“Web-service solutions such as AvaTax offer smaller businesses flexible, on-demand services – and we do so at a fraction of the cost and time investment it takes to purchase and maintain software in-house,” Vogt said. “That’s level of service represents the kind of value-added offering that GP 9 and NAV small business clients are looking for. Making sales tax less taxing for SMB businesses is the reason we have developed this important new business management tool.
“Businesses using AvaTax will never again have to deal with the time-consuming – often frustrating – tasks of researching and maintaining sales tax rates,” Vogt added. “Why should they? Sales tax compliance is a business cost that offers no strategic value. Though compliance is required by law, there is no profit in serving as the government’s unpaid tax collector. With AvaTax, we eliminate that cost – replacing it with a measurable benefit that drops directly to the bottom line.”
Costs of using AvaTax are designed to be fully scalable – to track with the actual activity of Avalara’s client firms. For instance, AvaTax for Microsoft Dynamics GP monthly subscription prices start at under $100 per month, plus a one-time-only activation fee.
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 8,000 taxing jurisdictions in North America; provides detailed, real-time reporting; and automatically generates pre-populated sales tax returns. Currently, more than 2,200 licensed AvaTax users run an average of 4.5 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, 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).
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 mid-sized businesses. Avalara’s mission is to transform the sales tax compliance process by creating cost-effective, state-of-the-art solutions. Avalara does so through integrated, on-demand, Web-based services that provide transparent transactions, accurate tax compliance, painless administration and effortless reporting.
For more information about Avalara, contact:
Ned Barnett, ned@barnettmarcom.com, 702-696-1200
Daryl Toor, dtoor@attentiongroup.com, 770-777-9489
On-Site at Convergence 2006:
Christina Opalka, christinao@avalara.com, 206-780-7035