Avalara Partners With E-dreamz to Automate Sales Tax Management

SEATTLE, WA and CHARLOTTE, NC--(Marketwired - Sep 20, 2016) - Avalara, Inc., a leading provider of tax compliance automation for business, today announced that E-dreamz, an accomplished full-service digital agency, has joined Avalara's community 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, customers who now use E-dreamz's Echo+ ecommerce solution can now benefit from Avalara, which automatically calculates applicable taxes, fees, and surcharges for every billing line item, in real-time. Avalara helps reduce the tedious work and complexity of calculating taxes for millions of products and services across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and dozens of other international jurisdictions, giving users more time to focus on driving their own business success. In addition, Echo+ users can add Avalara's tax return preparation, filing, and remittance services.

"We're always focused on helping our clients manage their businesses more efficiently," said Mike Fleming, Production Manager, E-dreamz. "Our partnership with Avalara will enable our Echo+ users to easily manage and remain up-to-date on increasingly complicated tax regulations."

Pascal Van Dooren, Chief Revenue Officer at Avalara said, "This partnership allows Avalara to provide its comprehensive solutions to companies in a fast, easy and cost effective way. In today's electronic world, commerce happens in real-time so businesses need to generate accurate invoices, including sales tax, in real-time. We're pleased to welcome E-dreamz into our community."

For more than a decade, Avalara has pioneered innovations in tax compliance for businesses of all sizes. Today, Avalara integrates with hundreds of ERP systems, billing platforms, accounting packages, ecommerce shopping carts, Point of Sale systems, and mobile payment platforms.

About Avalara
Avalara helps businesses of all sizes achieve compliance with transactional taxes, including VAT, sales and use, excise, communications, and other tax types. We deliver comprehensive, automated, cloud-based solutions that are fast, accurate, and easy to use. Avalara's Compliance Cloud™ platform helps customers manage complicated and burdensome tax compliance obligations imposed by state, local, and other taxing authorities throughout the world.

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

A privately held company, Avalara's venture capital investors include Sageview Capital, Battery Ventures, Warburg Pincus, Technology Crossover Ventures, Arthur Ventures, and other institutional and individual investors. Avalara's headquarters are in Seattle, WA and it has offices across the U.S. and in Brighton and London, England; Brussels, Belgium; and Pune, India. More information at: www.avalara.com

About E-dreamz
E-dreamz is an accomplished, full-service digital agency comprised of the Charlotte region's best web designers, developers, architects and marketers.

With equal measures of forward-thinking creativity and old-fashioned hard work, we develop innovative digital solutions that meet the specific needs of each of our clients.