AccountingSuite Certified for Avalaras Sales Tax Automation Solution


Bainbridge Island, WA and San Francisco CA (PRWEB) December 16, 2014

Avalara, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based software that delivers a broad array of compliance solutions related to sales tax and other transactional taxes, today announced AccountingSuite, an all-in-one business application that combines accounting, order management and inventory into one cloud-driven platform, has joined Avalaras community of certified solution partners. Avalaras solution partners are software publishers that integrate Avalaras software as a service (SaaS) offering for sales tax management directly into their own applications.

As a result of this partnership, AccountingSuite customers now have access to AvaTax, Avalaras cloud-based solution, to automatically calculate the final sales tax amount on every invoice. This eliminates the tedious work and complexity of calculating taxes across multiple jurisdictions and helps businesses focus on their core offering.

Companies that sell physical goods from multiple locations, and across state and country borders, need to make complicated tax calculations. AvaTax gives our customers confidence that their calculations are accurate, while creating a solid audit trail, said Kurt Kunselman, Co-founder of AccountingSuite.

Pascal Van Dooren, Chief Revenue Officer at Avalara said, This partnership allows Avalara to provide its comprehensive solutions to AccountingSuite customers in a fast, easy and cost effective way. In todays electronic world it just doesnt make sense to manually manage sales tax. Were pleased to welcome AccountingSuite into our community.

Avalara pioneered a web-based compliance platform for sales tax automation a decade ago and now provides an end-to-end suite of transactional tax compliance services for businesses of all sizes. Today its SaaS solution integrates into numerous ERP systems, accounting packages, ecommerce shopping carts, Point of Sale systems, and mobile payment platforms.

About Avalara

Avalara helps businesses of all sizes achieve compliance with sales tax, excise tax, and other transactional tax requirements by delivering comprehensive, automated, cloud-based solutions that are fast, accurate, and easy to use. Avalaras end-to-end suite of solutions is designed to effectively manage complicated and burdensome tax compliance obligations imposed by state, local, and other taxing authorities in the United States and internationally.

Avalara offers hundreds of pre-built connectors into leading accounting, ERP, ecommerce and other business applications. The company processes millions of tax transactions for customers and free users every day, files hundreds of thousands of transactional tax returns per year, and manages millions of exemption certificates and other compliance related documents.

A privately held company, Avalaras venture capital investors include Sageview Capital, Battery Ventures, Warburg Pincus, Arthur Ventures, and other institutional and individual investors. Avalara employs more than 750 people at its headquarters on Bainbridge Island, WA and in offices across the U.S. and in London, England and Pune, India. More information at: http://www.avalara.com

About AccountingSuite

AccountingSuite is all-in-one software for accounting, inventory, order management, time and project tracking. It provides easy-to-use, no-nonsense, scalable business software for startups, entrepreneurs, and growing companies to manage their finances and day-to-day operations.

Based in San Francisco, AccountingSuites mission is to give companies, employees and business partners easy, secure access to information that can make the difference between gaining or losing new customers. The suite is cloud-based and bank-level secure, and gives companies access to critical financial information from desktops and tablets. Visit http://www.AccountingSuite.com.