Uni-Data Partners with Avalara for Cloud-Based Sales Tax Compliance Automation

FLUSHING, N.Y., March 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Uni-Data™ Communications (Flushing, NY) <www.unidatait.com>, the acknowledged leader in providing next-generation Cloud technology to small and medium-sized businesses, today announced a major new partnership with Avalara, Inc., (www.Avalara.com), a leading provider of sales tax and compliance automation services in the Cloud. 

Through a soon-to-be-announced SMB Software Portal, Uni-Data's Skyline Cloud Services Division will enable a plethora of software titles to be available for rental and immediate provisioning across business PCs, making mission-critical computing platform decisions as simple as choosing a new phone app.

Avalara pioneered a service-based compliance platform for sales tax automation a decade ago and today works within a company's own financial, billing, ecommerce, or point of sale system to provide a complete set of transactional tax compliance services for businesses of all sizes.

As a result of this partnership, customers who now use Quickbooks® on Uni-Data's hosting services will be able to use AvaTax™, Avalara's cloud-based solution, to automatically calculate sales taxes owed on every invoice. This eliminates the tedious work and complexity of calculating taxes across multiple jurisdictions and helps businesses focus on their core offering.

"We're always focused on helping our clients manage their businesses more efficiently," said Bob Babcock, Vice President of Skyline Services by Uni-Data. "Our partnership with Avalara will enable our portal users to easily manage and remain up-to-date on increasingly complicated tax regulations."

Jay Deubler, vice president of sales at Avalara said, "We recognize the value Uni-Data brings to its clients, and are pleased to augment their offerings with our easy and affordable compliance solution. In today's electronic world it just doesn't make sense to manually manage sales tax, and we're convinced all sales and use tax will be automated in the coming years."

About Skyline:

Skyline Cloud Services was created by Uni-Data™ with a mandate to support the evolving needs of small business with turnkey, immediate and scalable Cloud-based software solutions that integrate the latest technology innovations with exceptional back-end infrastructure and support.

Founded in 1989, Uni-Data & Communications, Inc. (Uni-Data) is a pioneer company that helped create the Cloud-based data management model that is the foundation of today's IT infrastructure. Uni-Data is based in New York City and is part of the Unity International Group, an ESOP company of approximately 750 employees worldwide. Unity's clients include many of the Fortune® 50 financial services companies, as well as iconic worldwide brands and landmark facilities. Skyline draws on this scalable data management heritage and expertise and brings it for the first time to SMB companies.

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SOURCE Uni-Data & Communications, Inc.