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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.

Copyright 2012, Celerant Technology Corp. All rights reserved. This document is provided for information purposes only and the contents hereof are

subject to change without notice. This document is not warranted to be error-free, nor subject to any other warranties or conditions, whether expressed

orally or implied in law, including implied warranties and conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. We specifically disclaim any

liability with respect to this document and no contractual obligations are formed either directly or indirectly by this document. This document may not be

reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, without our prior written permission.Celerant Technology

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