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Maximizing Your Multi-Channel CelerantCommand Retail Investment
Using Celerant Tax Connect, powered by AvaTax, to automate your sales tax
process reduces error and audit risk
By Avalara, Inc.
July 2012
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Your selection of Celerants Command Retail manage-
ment solution was just the first step in using technol-
ogy to improve your business bottom line. Selecting
Celerant Command Retail empowers your business to
have back office, inventory, warehouse, distribution,
allocation, ecommerce, data mining and more in a
single, integrated system. This opens the door for you
to be able to employ easily integrated, add-on software
packages that can help maximize your investment.
Uninterrupted workflow
A critical piece of using the right management software
is to create a workflow that prevents errors and
improves turnaround time of processing sales andbilling transactions. From retail point-of-sale to ecom-
merce and mobile commerce, adding Celerant Tax
Connect helps you realize the cost benefit of streamlin-
ing order-entry and remittance processes using up-to-
date technology. Implementing Celerant Tax Connect
automates functions of sales tax from within your
Celerant retail management system, and applies them
to your transactions with no manual intervention.
Simple Implementation
Simply enter the Avalara URL, account and license
information into the store settings in Celerant Com-
mand Retail in order to automatically receive sales tax
calculations that include:
Address validation and standardization
decrease data entry time, increase accuracy
and reduce shipping rates with the best source
of address data in the country.
Sales tax jurisdiction assignment accuracy
down to the rooftop level with geo-spatial
technology.
Accurate, up-to-date tax information such asproduct taxability and rates tax research for
each state and jurisdiction regarding product
taxability and rates is delivered via the cloud
by experts in the field of state and local
taxation.
Security
Celerant Tax Connects seamless integration within
Celerant Command Retail keeps your information
secure. All vital information is protected. Sales tax data
is easily accessible from anywhere with a secure,
login-only Admin Console.
Reduced Workload
Your tax department will realize immediate improve-
ments to their ability to meet the needs of the com-
pany. Using Celerant Tax Connect removes the burden
of maintaining tax schedules and their rates; eliminat-
ing the need for manually selecting or assigning a
schedule for each transaction. Managing the taxability
of the products and services, monitoring sales taxholidays and other special tax situations are tasks that
are performed by the tax experts who deliver Celerant
Tax Connect.
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Decreased Order Turnaround Time
Easy, efficient processing is achieved for your order-
entry, ecommerce and mobile commerce transactions
with an automated, integrated sales tax solution like
Celerant Tax Connect. Sales tax rates no longer have to
be researched, but are automatically delivered within
Celerant Command Retail.
If your customer is sales tax-exempt, your business can
handle that easily with digital exemption certificate
collection and association. Identify the customer as
sales tax-exempt within Celerant Command Retail, and
the system will automatically apply tax or the exemp-
tion, as appropriate. Reducing the time of requesting,
collecting and searching for an exemption certificate
greatly improves customer satisfaction with fast order
completion positively impacting your bottom line.
Flexibility for Growth
Using Celerant Tax Connect makes expanding yourbusiness easy. Fast growth that adds new customers or
locations can be managed easily. New customers and
locations are automatically calculated with the correct
tax rates for each transaction with no manual research
or effort on your part, improving your companys ability
to adapt to a changing and ever-growing environment.
New shipping locations can also be added without
extensive research to identify rates and jurisdictions.
Audit-ability
Celerant Tax Connect ensures that each transaction
and its associated sales tax or tax-exempt status is
clearly traceable and easy to provide to auditors.
Reducing penalties and fees is not the only benefit of
audit-able transactions and sales tax collections. Easy
access to information ensures you spend less time
assisting an auditor during an audit and provide
prompt response to notices. Promptly delivered infor-
mation shows each transactions data and tax applied,
helping sales tax auditors quickly determine the
outcome of the audit, reducing staff time spent
supporting an audit.
Timely filing and notice management
With Celerant Tax Connect, transaction reporting ismade available in multiple formats for easy analysis.
The add-on Returns product eliminates the manual
process of filling out sales tax returns, filing and remit-
ting to each jurisdiction. Tax information flows from
Celerant Tax Connect to Returns and Celerants
partner, Avalara, takes care of the restincluding
notice management.
Benefits of Maximizing Your Technology Investment
Maximizing the use of your Celerant real-time POS
retail management system for sales tax enables
benefits such as:
Reduced errors and audit risk
Improved customer satisfaction
Easy invoice data entry and reporting
Eliminated manual entry for sales tax and
sales tax-exempt transactions
Workflow integration with no interruption in
order processing
Why wait? Learn how easy it is to integrate Celerant
Tax Connect, powered by AvaTax, into your Celerant
Command Retail software by contacting your Celerant
representative or Avalara today.
EXEMPTIONS
PRODUCT
TAXABILITY
CUSTOMER
RECORD
RETURNS AND
REMITTANCE
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About CelerantCelerant Technology is a privately held Corporation, providing high quality, advanced retail management software
systems to retail organizations. Celerant CEO, Ian Goldman, comes from a retail management software background and
founded Celerant Technology to build an entirely new type of retail system from the ground-up. The software that resulted uses
Java technology to solve data integration issues with an all-in-one system, seamlessly integrating all areas of retail, in
real-time.
Celerant Technology is atypical when it comes to comparing it to other enterprise-solution companies. Our approach is more
individually focused rather than mass-produced. In addition to traditional planning, implementation, training and support
services, Celerant provides a range of customized services designed to serve the more complex retail enterprises. These
services include custom development, integration with ERP and legacy systems, and integration with alternative points of
presence. Celerant Technology's headquarters are located in Staten Island, New York with satellite offices in Georgia,
Oklahoma, Florida, and Washington State.
Our real-time management system, Celerant Command Retail, integrates all channels of a multichannel retail enterprise,
including POS, warehouse, inventory management, sales back office, datamining, open-to-buy, mail order/catalog and
e-commerce. Celerants custom, sophisticated websites expertly manage and market inventory, directly from your Command
Retail system, eliminating the need to re-enter data, including product descriptions, customer information and online orders.Celerants flexible catalog/mail order module, also built within the system, allows you offer multiple catalogs simultaneously
and track the different codes, along with varying price levels. Our advantage is the flexibility of our Java platform and the tight
integration, allowing retailers to manage all channels of their business with one, scalable, real-time system.
Our MissionCelerant Technology promotes business growth and efficiency through innovation and technology. We understand the unique
challenges and demands retailers face each day. As a result, our in-house programming team has created an advanced retail
management system which exceeds these needs. The fact that our software is developed in-house, allows us to specifically
focus on each individual retail business. Our extensive, customizable software provides retailers with sophisticated tools to
manage every area of their business operation as efficiently as possible.
Contact UsCelerant Technology
4830 Arthur Kill Road
Staten Island, New York 10309
Phone: 877-811-8500
Phone: 718-605-7733
Fax: 718-605-7744
http://www.celerant.com
About AvalaraAvalara is the leading sales tax automation solution for ERP, financial applications, ecommerce, mobile payment and CRM
since 2006. AvaTax, our trailblazing software as a service (SaaS) offering, provides the most complete set of transactional tax
compliance services available, including tax calculation, exemption certificate management and returns processing as well as
1099 filing and reporting. Avalara has partnered with Celerant to provide Celerant customers with the most accurate, fast,easy and affordable sales tax solutions on the market today.
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subject to change without notice. This document is not warranted to be error-free, nor subject to any other warranties or conditions, whether expressed
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