Avalara
which provides cloud-based transactional tax compliance solutions, and Shopgate
a software-as-a-service m-commerce platform, have announced a new global
partnership that will help merchants remain tax compliant when taking mobile
payments. The partnership strengthens Avalara’s support of the mobile commerce
industry by integrating AvaTax™, Avalara’s proven sales tax compliance
solution, into the Shopgate mobile commerce platform. The collaboration will
allow Shopgate to offer its merchants fully-automated sales tax compliance
services as it expands into North America, whilst continuing to support its
5,500+ merchants across Europe.
Kevin
Boland, VP Global Business Development at Avalara, said: “This partnership
offers integrated, automated tax compliance as part of an efficient, reliable
mobile payments process, expanding our reach to more merchants using a
comprehensive global m-commerce solution online. We are excited to join with
Shopgate to help merchants using m-payments to ensure they are tax compliant
when processing transactions across the world’s markets.”
Andrea
Anderheggen, Founder & CEO at Shopgate, commented: “At Shopgate, we are
dedicated to delivering the best possible mobile experience so merchants can
maximize conversion rates and sales around the world. We are delighted to
announce this partnership with Avalara, a leader in sales tax automation in the
US, which will support our expansion in North American markets, whilst ensuring
all our international customers are able to remain compliant with the
complexities of transactional taxes globally.”
Shopgate’s
5,500+ merchants serve millions of customers every day, seamlessly integrating
with over 60 of the world’s most popular shopping carts and cooperating with
the leading mobile and ecommerce companies so that online customers can shop
anytime, anywhere. Avalara supports automated tax calculation in over 100
countries, combining its vast proprietary database with address validation and
geolocation, applying the correct taxability rules and rates and handling
filing and remittance.
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