GoECart Teams with Avalara to Automate Sales Tax Management for Merchants

We are pleased to welcome Avalara® to GoECart's Thriving Partner EcoSystem of best-in-class software and service providers. Avalara is leading online sales tax automation solution. Previously only available to Fortune 500 companies, the technology is now available to small and mid-sized merchants has been successfully integrated with GoECart.
The integration provides GoECart merchants with best-in-class sales tax automation capabilities, including:

• Seamless access to all jurisdiction assignments and real-time tax calculations
• The most up to date rates and boundary information available
• Superior processing logic to manage complex tax issues like situs, nexus, tax tiers, holidays, exemptions, certificate management, and product taxability rules
• A speedy and seamless tax engine (calculates sales tax transparently and in under a second!)
• Interactive reporting, address validation, rate research, streamlined remittance
• Many additional benefits

For more information about the integration, visit http://www.goecart.com/mm/Transactional-SalesTax-Automation-Management.aspx.

Avalara's Press Release: http://www.avalara.com/About/News/PressReleases/Avalara-and-GoECart-Team-Up-to-Deliver-Sub-Second

GoECart's Press Release: http://eon.businesswire.com/portal/site/eon/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100107005303&newsLang=en

For a brief description of Avalara and all the solution partners in the GoECart's Thriving Partner EcoSystem, visit our partners page at http://www.goecart.com/partners/Ecommerce-Solution-Partners.aspx

GoECart Participates in BRBC Fitness Challenge

In an ongoing effort to contribute to the local community, over 90% of GoECart employees have recently participated in a 90 day fitness challenge along with 29 other companies in order to promote healthy work environments in the city of Bridgeport, CT.

The Fitness Challenge was modeled after Aquarion Company's wellness program and launched by the Bridgeport Regional Business Council Health Care Council as part of its Wellness Initiative in order to provide added value to BRBC members and create healthier workplaces in the region. At the beginning of September 2009, thirty Bridgeport Regional Council member companies began this 90 day fitness challenge. The goal was for each participant to walk 10,000 steps a day and track their progress on pedometers provided by UnitedHealthcare (NYSE:UNH).

Together over 2,500 walkers from the participating BRBC member companies logged 1,644,370,329 steps, or just over 822,185 miles, between September 1 and November 29, 2009.