Webgility Certified for Avalara’s Sales Tax Automation Solution / eCommerce retailers can use Avalara’s AvaTax™ directly within Webgility’s eCC Desktop application.

Avalara, Inc., (http://www.Avalara.com), a leading provider of sales tax and compliance automation services in the cloud, today announced Webgility, Inc., a leader in QuickBooks® integration for eCommerce retailers, has joined Avalara’s growing list of certified solution partners. Avalara’s solution partners are software publishers that integrate Avalara’s software as a service (SaaS) offering for sales tax management directly into their own applications.

As a result of this partnership, eCommerce retailers can use Avalara’s AvaTax™ capabilities directly within Webgility’s eCC® Desktop application. eCC Desktop connects a retailer’s online store with QuickBooks, and automatically records sales transactions in QuickBooks. In addition, eCC Desktop synchronizes products, inventory and customers, ensuring up-to-date data across platforms. Now with the AvaTax integration, Webgility customers can automatically calculate the sales tax on every order before recording the transactions in QuickBooks. This eliminates the tedious work and complexity of calculating taxes across multiple jurisdictions; and therefore, helps business focus on their core offering.

“We’re always looking for ways to add more automation to eCC so our customers can focus on doing what they enjoy the most: growing their business,” said Parag Mamnani, Founder and CEO for Webgility. “Tax compliance is a critical part of accounting and it’s becoming increasingly complex. We’re thrilled to partner with Avalara to help our eCommerce customers alleviate this pain and to ensure they’re compliant.”

Pascal Van Dooren, EVP of Sales and Marketing at Avalara said, “This strategic partnership allows Avalara to provide its industry leading compliance solutions to eCommerce businesses in a fast, easy and affordable way. In today’s electronic world it just doesn’t make sense to manually manage sales tax. We’re pleased to welcome Webgility into our ever-expanding community.”

Since its founding nearly a decade ago, Avalara has pioneered the service-based platform for tax automation and emerged as a dominant player in this market by leading the automation effort for financial, ecommerce, POS and mobility applications for businesses. Today, Avalara’s SaaS solution provides a complete set of transactional tax compliance services developed specifically to serve the needs of small to mid-sized businesses.