Avalara and Azox Business Solutions Announce Alliance to Bring eSource Customers Sales Tax Automation—AvaTax Connect

Bainbridge Island, WA – September 10, 2007 – Sales tax solutions provider Avalara and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Azox Business Solutions, have formalized a partnership to provide Azox eSource™ customers with the full line of services offered by Avalara including AvaTax™, Avalara’s Web-based sales tax automation service.

Currently offering an integration to Microsoft Dynamics™ GP, the addition of AvaTax for eSource now offers businesses a sales tax automation service that works in the background of the eSource sales portal via a secure Internet connection. The easiest, most economical, and most accurate sales tax automation solution available today, AvaTax for eSource provides sales tax calculation and secure data storage for tax filing and reporting, which are critical functions for Web-based businesses.

“We have partnered with Avalara for the past several years to give our Microsoft Dynamics GPcustomers an automated sales tax management solution,” Blase Casillas, vice president of Business Development at Azox said. “By being able to offer AvaTax to our eCommerce customers as well is an obvious extension of our product offering. Eliminating the need for businesses to manually research or purchase expensive software-based tax solutions and instead offer a single, comprehensive and fully-integrated solution that simplifies the way sales tax is managed in the eCommerce and Dynamics GP Sales Order environment.”

“Azox is well-known for providing industry leading eCommerce solutions for Microsoft Dynamics™ GP users,” said Marshal Kushniruk, VP of Strategic Accounts and Customer Experience at Avalara. “This is a partnership we are excited to undertake since it recognizes the Microsoft Dynamics GP eCommerce user, a significant overlap between the type of customers we serve. By integrating AvaTax with eSource, customers can now process their transactions and sales tax in one fully-integrated, automated step.”

About Azox Business Solutions
Headquartered in Plymouth, Michigan, Azox Business Solutions partners with Microsoft Dynamics™ GP resellers to provide industry leading eCommerce solutions and Extension products to their customers and prospects. Starting as a Great Plains developer over ten years ago, Azox has helped companies grow their businesses with fully integrated B2B & B2C Web sites, E2B Sales Portals and innovative products for streamlining business processes in Distribution, Light Manufacturing and Retail environments.

Azox is the exclusive North American distributor for Trinity Computer Services Limited. The U.K.-based Microsoft Dynamics™ GP Reseller and Global ISV provides over 30 Distribution enhancements for Microsoft Dynamics™ GP.

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).

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.

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For more information about Avalara, contact:
Andrea Anderson, Director of Marketing
Office: 206-780-7008

For more information about Azox, contact:
Renee Lan, Marketing Coordinator.
Office: 734-928-6000