Avalara Earns Intuit QuickBooks Gold Certified Developer Status

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Avalara (www.avalara.com), the leading provider of web-based sales tax automation solutions for businesses of all sizes, today announced that it has attained Gold Certified Developer status in the Intuit QuickBooks program, highlighting Avalara’s expertise and leadership position in the automated sales tax solution marketplace. Notably, Avalara is the only sales tax solution provider to attain this status.

“And we are particularly pleased for our QuickBooks clients, as we extend our commitment to them through this certification, ensuring their sales tax compliance needs are met from beginning to end, as seamlessly as possible.”

As a Gold Certified Developer, Avalara has proven its expertise and superior compatibility with Intuit technologies and its unparalleled ability to meet and exceed customer requirements. The Gold Certified Developer level is the highest certification that can be reached by applications running in tandem with QuickBooks, and attaining this designation is an important milestone for Avalara.

“We’re very proud to be the first in our market space to attain this status, and especially to integrate with the leading accounting software provider,” said Scott McFarlane, co-founder, president, and chief executive officer, “And we are particularly pleased for our QuickBooks clients, as we extend our commitment to them through this certification, ensuring their sales tax compliance needs are met from beginning to end, as seamlessly as possible.”

Avalara’s web-based AvaTax™ service integrates seamlessly with QuickBooks and provides instantaneous address validation and up-to-date, highly accurate sales tax calculations — automatically posting the correct sales tax amount to the general ledger on all sales transactions and thus completely automating the complex and cumbersome process of sales tax calculation.

In addition to hundreds of satisfied QuickBooks users, Avalara serves thousands of clients with integrations to more than 80 leading financial applications and ERP systems. The company also provides a managed returns and remittance service for full end-to-end sales tax compliance.

Among the many requirements to attaining the Intuit QuickBooks certification, Avalara had to successfully demonstrate a positive customer satisfaction survey, case studies, and a technical capabilities audit to an independent testing company chosen by Intuit.

QuickBooks is a registered trademark of Intuit, Inc.

Avalara: Avalara is transforming the sales and use tax compliance process for businesses of all sizes by delivering advanced technology solutions that provide the fastest, easiest, most accurate, and affordable way for companies to address their statutory tax requirements. Chosen by nearly 10,000 businesses throughout the U.S., Canada, and abroad, and a trusted provider of over 100 million sales tax calculations annually, Avalara is the recognized leader in web-based sales tax services and solutions. Avalara files more than 240,000 sales tax returns and remits over $10 billion in sales tax filings per year.

Based on Bainbridge Island near Seattle, WA, Avalara’s products, services, and expertise mirror the outsourced payroll model employed by millions of businesses, eliminating non-revenue generating functions, saving time and valuable accounting resources, and reducing the risks associated with miscalculation, audits, and penalties. Avalara services connect seamlessly with most major accounting and ERP applications, as well as 85 available integrations that are recommended by more than 2,000 software resellers and CPAs. For more information, please visit www.avalara.com.