eCommerce websites with Sage Sales Tax

The Internet is increasingly becoming a vital channel in reaching your customers and driving the sales and profitability of your business. The first step in doing business on the web is a robust B2B (Busines to Business) and/or a B2C (Business to Consumer) eCommerce website that ideally is integrated with your ERP software package, such as MAS 90, MAS 200, or MAS 500. You can have a hosted B2B/B2C eCommerce website within 30 days for less than $20,000 with the following features:

  • search-engine friendly
  • fully integrated with Sage MAS 90 and Sage MAS 200
  • includes a web-based, easy to use content management system (CMS)
  • runs on a Microsoft SQL Server database

With an eCommerce website one important consideration is sales taxes which can be very complicated especially if you have physical locations (a nexus) in different tax jurisdications. With a rapidly deployed eCommerce website built by websitepipeline and integrated with MAS 90, MAS 200, or MAS 500 you have 3 options for handling sales taxes on the website:

  1. No Tax - Sales Tax is not calculated on the website.The tax schedule is fixed to a specified value for all orders placed online.
  2. MAS Tax Tables - your MAS tax schedules and codes are imported into the website and are used to calculate the sales tax. This also calculates tax on anonymous customers using country, state, county, or zip code matching. Tax exempt support is included.
  3. Sage Sales Tax powered by AvaTax - Sales tax is calculated using real time web-service calls to Avalara where the address is validated, the correct sales tax jurisdiction is selected, and the rate is calculated. The Avalara software and service is sold separately.

The benefits of using Sage Sales Tax powered by AvaTax are:

  • Accuracy - has the most up-to-date rates and boundary information available
  • Speed - sales tax calculation happens in seconds in the background without disrupting the existing workflow
  • Reports - detailed, on-demand reports allow you quick access to the information needed to prepare and submit sales tax returns
  • Rules and Regulations - Avalara researches and maintains the most current taxation statutes and tax rates. AvaTax allows you to easily manage nexus and taxibility.

View a brochure for more information on AvaTax for MAS 90 and MAS 200 or MAS 500.

Contact us if you have any questions or would like to see a demonstration. You can reach us at 1-800-266-3579 or Contact Us.

The Rapid Deployment website program is designed to provide a highly functional website that is integrated with the MAS 90 / MAS 200 financial software within 30 days. This allows you to have your website up and running very quickly with a base offering that covers the needs of most MAS integrations. Once the Base website is completed you can easily add any other functionality from the 800+ modules that we have available including a custom design.

The modules provide the functionality or what the website does. There are 3 areas into which the functionality for Rapid Deployment websites fall:

  1. Base offering - it is a part of every website and provides the core functionality for ecommerce, product catalog, customer and account management, tools for SEO, etc.
  2. Sales Tax, Shipping, Credit Cards - depending on your business needs or processes you make a choice on how you want to handle Shipping Methods, Sales Tax, and Credit Card Processing on the website.
  3. Optional modules - for the product catalog that provide functionality that may be valuable to your customers that can be added for additional pricing.

Some of the benefits of the integration are:

  • Manage your products, pricing, and tax schedules in MAS and have them work in your website.Customers see their specific pricing.
  • Customers can place orders 24/7 without calling or faxing you. Allows your customer service people to focus on other priorities.
  • Orders go directly from the website into MAS 90/200/500, 24/7. No need to rekey order information.
  • Customers can access their information 24/7 including order history, shipping info, account info, etc. No need to call you.
  • Order history goes from MAS directly into the website. Customers can view their previous orders.
  • Inventory levels on website and in MAS are the same.
  • MAS 90/200/500 and the website can operate independently. Orders queue up and transfer when connection is re-established.
  • Process credit cards on the website or in MAS.

websitepipeline™ builds, hosts and supports custom websites. Since 1999, we have built over 1000 software and database driven websites for all types of businesses and organizations. This includes simple, brochure-like presentations to highly complex, software and database-driven eCommerce websites with full back office integration. These functionality in these sites pulls from our extensive catalog of over 800 fully tested software modules and include:

  • content management systems,
  • product catalogs,
  • shopping carts,
  • customer specific pricing,
  • inventory tracking,
  • product configurators,
  • apparel catalogs,
  • dealer locators,
  • syndicated website programs,
  • integration with 3rd party software systems,
  • and much more.

All of our websites are furnished with password protected, non technical control panels that enable you to manage all of the content real-time.

For a free demonstration and estimate please contact websitepipeline at 1-800-266-3579 or Contact Us