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eCommerce and the Distributor: Is It time to Serve Your Customers Online?

Posted by John Shepperson | Jun 17, 2015 11:30:00 AM

Who wants to be like the bank that doesn’t offer online banking? Or the airline that doesn’t let you book a flight online? A few decades ago, it might have been a different story, but in today’s on-demand world, these shortcomings would be considered deal-breakers for both existing and potential customers.

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Topics: ERP, john shepperson, oates co, ecommerce, distribution, b2b, b2c, website pipeline, internet retailer, self serve



Integrating the Internet

Posted by John Shepperson | Apr 21, 2015 2:00:00 PM

More brick-and-mortar stores are integrating the internet into their businesses. Doing so comes with additional costs in terms of a website and supporting it, employee training, banking costs, and shipping. In order to determine the net value of this change and before taking any steps into eCommerce, there are many factors to consider.

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Topics: shipping, internet business, online business, taxes, ecommerce



Sales Tax Doesn't Have to be Hard - Let Avalara AvaTax Make it Easy.

Posted by John Shepperson | Feb 10, 2014 1:41:00 PM

Avalara AvaTax: Sales tax is hard. AvaTax™ makes it easy.

Avalara’s AvaTax is a cloud based service that uses a secure, encrypted internet connection to deliver real time tax decisions. Its database holds more than 100,000 sales tax rules and can automatically apply them across more than 11,000 jurisdictions and nearly 100 countries. Most importantly, the AvaTax database is always up to date, making accurate sales tax calculations all day, every day.

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Topics: oates and co, Sage, cloud accounting, intacct, sales tax, Avalara, cloud, integration, john shepperson, avatax, avalara avatax, sales tax rules, ecommerce, retail point of sale



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