Web-Based, Integrated System Saves Time and Helps Ensure Compliancy
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash.--Avalara (www.avalara.com), a leading provider of Web-hosted sales tax management services, is delivering exceptional efficiency to its AvaTax™ customers through AvaFile™. AvaFile is a web-based, integrated sales tax return system that allows tax departments to view, modify, and approve returns for submission to any tax jurisdiction in North America. Once approved, Avalara remits the sales tax liability for each jurisdiction on customers’ behalf via traditional paper return or electronic filing, saving customers valuable time and resources.
“Since we’re a technology company, we feel it’s especially important to stay on the cutting edge,” said Zachary Jarrell, controller at ShopperTrak. “AvaFile has simplified a very complex process for us, allowing for greater efficiency on a monthly basis. It’s obvious that Avalara has set the bar high with AvaFile.”
With AvaFile, AvaTax customers can perform all sales tax processes, including calculations, collection, reporting and remitting, from a single solution. They can reconcile a single liability worksheet for all states and jurisdictions to drive filing and remittance while managing deductions, exemptions and prepayments using data already recorded in the AvaTax Dashboard.
“AvaFile helps us deliver on our mission to transform the sales tax compliance process by creating cost-effective, state-of-the-art solutions,” said Michael Gardner, vice president of compliance at Avalara. “Regardless of a customer’s size, number of jurisdictions, filing formats and schedules, AvaFile enables them to spend less time on tax returns and more time on serving their customers and growing their businesses.”
AvaFile helps customers remain compliant regardless of whether the customer is filing in single or multiple jurisdictions, with different formats or on various filing schedules. Because AvaFile integrates seamlessly into customers’ back office applications, customers, no matter how small or large, are able to keep current with form changes and manage complex reporting issues like exempt sales reporting with greater confidence and ease.
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 aggregates data in anticipation of preparing 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.
