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www.avalara.com/index.cfm/ref/businesswire - MWW Group Erica Chandler, 206-505-8351 echandler@mww.com Avalara (www.avalara.com), the leading provider of sales, use and VAT tax automation solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, today announced a strategic partnership with Intacct, a leader in on-demand financial management and accounting applications. Through this partnership, Avalara will be one of the first companies to join Intacct's new Intacct-Ready partner program

where Intacct will resell Avalara's sales tax management solutions through a direct sales force and via Intacct's network of channel partners.

Under the strategic partnership, Intacct and Avalara have worked together to develop and maintain integration between Intacct's on-demand financial applications and Avalara's sales tax management solutions. This integration will significantly expand the list of leading companies using both Avalara and Intacct solutions.

Through its AvaTax service, Avalara offers the fastest, most accurate and affordable Web-based tax compliance service available. AvaTax also comes integrated with Intacct's financial application serving more businesses than any other solution on the market. AvaTax operates as a module within the Intacct financial system, providing businesses with a fully integrated and automated Sales Tax Management System, which includes functionality to protect against audits, obsolete data and changing tax laws.

"Combined with Intacct's financial applications, our services leverage efficiencies and offer a cost-effective and adaptive sales tax management solution for businesses of every size all over the world," said Scott McFarlane, chief executive officer of Avalara. "Together, Avalara and Intacct bring the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model to sales tax management and are leading businesses into transactional tax nirvana."

"Businesses are flocking to companies like Avalara who offer practical, affordable, and highly effective SaaS solutions," said Daniel Druker, senior vice president of marketing and business development at Intacct. "In fact, our clients and partners liked Avalara so much that we decided to resell it. Both Intacct and Avalara empowers businesses by offerings services that allow them to run their whole company 100 percent on-demand in a new world where the vendors, and not their clients, are responsible for establishing and maintaining integration."

Under the new Intacct-Ready program, Intacct will partner with leading software as a service (SaaS) companies, like Avalara, to develop and certify integration between their applications and technologies and Intacct's on-demand financial management applications. The Intacct-Ready Program will enable businesses to pick and choose from an ecosystem of pre-integrated, certified, best of breed SaaS solutions where integration is jointly developed, maintained and supported by the world's leading on-demand vendors. This is a dramatic change from the old on-premises software days, where integration between applications was a costly, risky and failure prone exercise that was the responsibility of the customer.

About AvaTax(TM):

AvaTax is the market-leading Web-service-based sales tax solution for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) that instantly and accurately calculates sales tax for clients and provides detailed, real-time reporting, and effortless returns and remittance. AvaTax seamlessly integrates with a multitude of SMB financial applications and serves more businesses than any other solution on the market today. Additionally, with AvaTax On-Demand(TM), developers can integrate Avalara's sales tax Web service with any e-commerce, third party or custom-built solution.

About Avalara:

Headquartered on Bainbridge Island near Seattle, WA, Avalara is changing the sales and use tax landscape by delivering innovative and affordable solutions to small and medium businesses. Led by a team of industry experts in sales and use tax, and security and information technology, Avalara is focused on providing the easiest, most accurate and affordable way for businesses to address all their statutory sales and use tax requirements. Additional news and information are available at www.avalara.com.

Avalara Joins Intacct-Ready(TM) Partner Program and Fully
Integrates Its Tax Automation Solutions with Intacct's On-Demand
Financial Management Applications