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Tomorrow’s Webinar: Managing Sales Tax in Magento eCommerce Applications
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Managing Sales Tax in Magento eCommerce Applications
Magento™ now offers AvaTax™, a fully integrated on-demand sales tax management solution for your online business. Join us for a free webinar on the advantages and benefits of this industry-leading solution, including the easiest setup, the fastest and most accurate calculations available, and complete automated back-end reporting.
Topics include:
- The challenges of sales tax calculation and compliance.
- Changes in state sales tax legislation that could affect your e-commerce business
- How your company can achieve full compliance with the AvaTax solution.
- Demo of the AvaTax Dashboard for centralized, secure management.
Do you spend your valuable time dealing with sales tax when you could be growing your business? Are you constantly updating rules and trying to make sure you're in compliance with your local tax codes? If you're looking for a better solution, please join us on Tuesday, March 9th at 9am Pacific Time for an inside look at the Magento and AvaTax solution.
Date: Tuesday, March 9th, 9:00 AM PST(GMT -08:00, Los Angeles)Registration: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/190005171
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Expanding Our Partnership with PayPal To Further Drive eCommerce Innovation
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I’m excited today to announce an expansion of our strategic partnership with PayPal. As the leader in the global eCommerce payments market with over 81 million active accounts, PayPal is committed to the success of open platforms and a natural partner for Magento. Over the next few months, current Magento merchants will find an expanded and deeper integration with PayPal’s products and services, including a seamless and automated merchant on boarding process. Additionally, Magento will collaborate with PayPal on a number of new product initiatives to further drive e-commerce innovation and expand the global reach of our product. More details will be released throughout the year. In the meantime, read the full press release to learn more.
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Magento Connect is growing up. It seems like only yesterday that our extension marketplace went live after a 36-hour coding marathon that left at least one of our developers completely exhausted. Magento Connect has since skyrocketed to nearly 2,000 extensions, and because the community has been an essential part of this growth, we thought it would be fitting to celebrate by launching a contest to find & announce our 2,000th extension. The three winners will be declared in the news section of our official iPhone app (we’ll also post the names here on our blog).
Ever since we first launched Magento Connect just under two years ago we’ve seen developers from around the world bring hundreds of innovative solutions to our over 40,000 merchants. Merchants have responded favorably, especially as they’ve needed to reach customers through new channels such as mobile and social media (Twitter, Facebook, MySpace), upgrade the designs of their storefronts, and integrate third-party solutions with the Magento platform to stay ahead of the curve.
Our 2,000th extension is just around the corner, and we’re launching a contest where three lucky winners will receive each the following prizes:
Official Magento Use Guide
All three winners will receive their very own copy of the Official Magento User Guide, which has received excellent reviews and comprises 200+ pages of detailed instructions addressing the platform’s innumerable functions.
Official Magento T-Shirt
When Magento Connect first launched, our exhausted developer was wearing more on his shoulders than just the pride of developing an excellent marketplace. Each of the three winners will receive an Official Magento t-shirt, and if you’d like, you can have it signed by our CEO, Roy Rubin.
Sneak Peek: New Magento Connect Design
We’ve been secretly working away on a new redesign for Magento Connect, and the three lucky winners will have the chance to see it before anyone else (and even provide us with some feedback).
Instructions
First, watch the counter at the bottom of our View All Extensions page, and check the first-listed extension when the counter reaches 2,000. Note that some extensions might be updated around the same time, so you’ll need to make sure that the extension you submit is indeed a brand-new extension (hint: it won’t have any reviews or downloads).
Second, tweet the name and link of the 2,000th extension to our official Magento Connect twitter account (@magentoconnect). The first three people who tweet the correct 2,000th extension will win all three of the above prizes.
Finally, we’ll announce the names of the three winners on the news section of our official Magento iPhone app (available here). If you don’t have an iPhone, then don’t worry. Shortly after the announcement on our iPhone app we’ll also post the names of the three winners here on the Magento Blog. Be sure to check for your name and respond within 48 hours or we’ll need to award the prizes to the next person in line.
If you’d like to collaborate on this project or share updates with the community, be sure to use the #Connect2000 hashtag on twitter.
Good luck!
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KangaROOS: Hopping to Success on Magento
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A European fashion e-commerce platform for KangaROOS and Flip*Flop
Magento Partner Strawberries has developed a multilingual webshop to support sales across several European markets on behalf of southern German company Bernd Hummel Holding, licence holder for the KangaROOS brand in 16 European countries. The webshop sells KangaROOS shoes, clothing and accessories.
It was not only the qualities of the KangaROOS brand that were taken into account when developing the concept for the webshops, but also the translation of this concept into other brand formulas. Besides KangaROOS, the shop concept has also been applied to the summer shoe and accessories brand Flip*Flop.
Fully integrated e-commerce platform
Bernd Hummel Holding and Strawberries bore joint responsibility for the concept while the KangaROOS and Flip*Flop shops were under development. Strawberries took care of the design, implementation and management, and the Magento platform was used as an e-commerce solution.
The webshops are fully integrated with the Austrian logistics service provider Dohmen. In addition, the e-commerce platform is integrated with a credit-check module and various social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Studivz.
About Strawberries
Strawberries is a full-service internet company based in the heart of Amsterdam. Based on a clear vision, we have been developing and translating web strategies into functional, measurable internet solutions for 12 years. Thirty employees work together with our regular partners to ensure high-quality internet applications that are in keeping with our clients’ goals and the wishes of their users.
Strawberries works for clients including V&D, adidas, SEAT, Philips, Dolcis, Manfield, ProSport, Invito, VGZ, Vereniging Eigen Huis and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Fully Integrated On-Demand Service Automates Sales Tax Management Process, Simplifies Compliance, Administration
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Bainbridge Island, WA and Los Angeles, CA — February 25, 2010 - Avalara (www.avalara.com), the leading provider of web-based sales tax automation solutions for businesses of all sizes, and Magento, the global, Open Source, e-commerce platform, today announced their partnership aimed at enabling online merchants to easily and affordably manage sales tax calculation, compliance, and exemption certificates – previously a major challenge for online businesses. Under the terms of this agreement, Magento will offer seamless integration with Avalara’s AvaTax™ service.
Through its AvaTax service, Avalara offers the fastest, most accurate, and affordable Web-based tax compliance service available. AvaTax operates as a module, providing a fully integrated and automated sales tax management system that includes functionality to protect against audits, obsolete data, and changing tax laws. With point-and-click ease, sales tax is figured in tenths of a second, with unequaled accuracy, transaction after transaction.
“Sales tax management issues are growing exponentially for online businesses,” said Roy Rubin, CEO of Varien, the Magento company. “Our customers are devoting increasingly more time on these issues that generate no revenue and expose them to unprecedented risks. Partnering with Avalara adds a great value proposition for our customers. With 100% accuracy and a 0% increase in labor, integration with AvaTax provides significant value while decreasing overhead for Magento users.”
Magento’s integration with AvaTax is plug-and-play, simplifying the process online merchants will take to achieve sales tax compliance – without the need for major technological undertakings on their part. Magento’s clients will be able to focus on running their businesses and increasing sales, rather than attempting to keep up with constantly changing sales and use tax rates, boundaries, and taxability rules in the more than 14,000 taxing jurisdictions in North America alone.
“We look forward to working with Magento and its clients,” said Scott McFarlane, Avalara’s president and CEO. “Both Avalara and Magento have been growing in leaps and bounds in the all-important e-commerce space, and we both share the similar philosophy of providing our mutual clients with innovative solutions which reduce administrative burdens and help them work more efficiently,” concluded McFarlane.
About Avalara
Based in Bainbridge Island, WA, Avalara is transforming the sales and use tax compliance process for businesses of all sizes. With point-and-click ease, Avalara provides the fastest, easiest, most accurate, and affordable way for companies to address their statutory tax requirements. Chosen by nearly 10,000 businesses throughout the U.S., Canada, and abroad, and a trusted provider of over 200 million sales tax calculations annually, Avalara is the recognized leader in web-based sales tax services and solutions. For more information, please visit www.avalara.com or contact .
About Magento
Magento is a feature-rich, professional Open Source eCommerce platform solution that offers merchants complete flexibility and control over the presentation, content, and functionality of their online channel. Magento’s intuitive administration interface features powerful marketing tools, a catalog-management engine and is SEO optimized to give merchants the power to create sites that provide an unrivaled and rich online shopping experience for their customers, tailored to their unique business needs. Designed to be completely scalable and backed by an extensive support network, Magento is the ultimate eCommerce solution. For more information about Magento, please visit www.MagentoCommerce.com or contact .
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