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GoECart - Avalara Sales Tax Partner Integration
1. AvaTax™
Sales Tax Solution for E‐commerce Shopping Carts
C USTOMER S UCCESS S TORY
AvaTax is a Spark for Business at Echelon
Echelon Corporation is plugging into a in our home state of California, where sales
worldwide transformation of the electricity tax varies by county, city, and district and
CUSTOMER grid and is helping create a "smart energy" where you can actually have completely
Echelon Corporation network. Connecting everyday electrical different rates on two sides of the same
devices on a network infrastructure, street,” Brennan describes. So Echelon’s
Echelon provides customers with “energy‐ e‐commerce endeavor sat on the back
INDUSTRY aware” homes and businesses that burner for roughly 10 years…that is, until
Smart Grid Energy communicate with and react to conditions Brennan and his team discovered AvaTax
Solutions on the grid. And while their products can by Avalara integrated with GoECart.
power and connect tens of millions of
devices, their e‐commerce initiative was An Electrifying Combination
HEADQUARTERS unplugged for years, according to Brennan Avalara is the leader in web‐based sales
San Jose, CA McAdams, Information Architect at Echelon. tax automation solutions through their
flagship product AvaTax. GoECart is an
E‐commerce Lacking Power on‐demand, e‐commerce solution that
OTHER INFO “We considered getting into e‐commerce offers a customizable web storefront. The
Nexus in 14 States for a number of years, but there were plug‐and‐play integration between AvaTax
always significant obstacles to overcome,” and GoECart provides Echelon with an
350 Employees Brennan says. “In particular, we knew that affordable Software‐as‐a‐Service based
store.echelon.com sales tax calculations for online orders e‐commerce platform that, until recently,
would be a tremendous challenge because was only available to Fortune 500 compa‐
we have nexus in multiple states.” While nies with huge IT budgets. “Once we had a
SYSTEM Echelon has roughly 350 employees, they chance to take a good look at the combina‐
AvaTax Integrated didn’t feel they had the resources to tion of AvaTax and GoECart, we knew we
with GoECart manage ever‐changing sales tax rules and found an affordable and reliable solution
in the 14 states where they do business. that would help spark our long‐anticipated
venture into e‐commerce,” says Brennan.
Plugging Into the Right Solution
According to Brennan, the real difficulty After the new system was up and running,
was finding a cost‐effective e‐commerce Brennan recalls, “Our very first online
solution with a powerful sales tax engine. order really put the system to the test … It
“Most of the affordable e‐commerce came from a university which has a unique
packages we looked at offered very basic half‐percent sales tax on anything
functionality that spit out an aggregate delivered on the college grounds.” The
view of your sales tax liability. But we transaction was handled perfectly and
knew that wasn’t going to cut it ‐ particularly
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