Maximizing Your Multi-Channel Celerant Command 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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Maximizing Your Multi-Channel Celerant Command Retail Investment

By Avalara, Inc.

Your selection of Celerants Command Retail management solution was just the first step in using technology 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 and billing transactions. From retail point-of-sale to ecommerce and mobile commerce, adding Celerant Tax Connect helps you realize the cost benefit of streamlining order-entry and remittance processes using up-todate 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 Command 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 as product 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 improvements to their ability to meet the needs of the company. Using Celerant Tax Connect removes the burden of maintaining tax schedules and their rates; eliminating the need for manually selecting or assigning a schedule for each transaction. Managing the taxability of the products and services, monitoring sales tax holidays and other special tax situations are tasks that are performed by the tax experts who deliver Celerant Tax Connect.

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Maximizing Your Multi-Channel Celerant Command Retail Investment

By Avalara, Inc.

CUSTOMER RECORD

PRODUCT TAXABILITY

EXEMPTIONS

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 information 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 is made available in multiple formats for easy analysis. The add-on Returns product eliminates the manual process of filling out sales tax returns, filing and remitting 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

RETURNS AND REMITTANCE

Decreased Order Turnaround Time Easy, efficient processing is achieved for your orderentry, 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 exemption, 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 your business 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.
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Maximizing Your Multi-Channel Celerant Command Retail Investment About Celerant

By Avalara, Inc.

Celerant 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 Mission

Celerant 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 Us

Celerant 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 Avalara

Avalara 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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