New Products

Avalara, which makes Web-based sales-and-use applications has incorporated sales tax rate changes for 24 taxing jurisdictions in nine states that were implemented in August. The Bainbridge Island, Wash.-based company also updated jurisdictional boundary information in five states. It also added five new taxability rules to its database, covering such items as sales tax caps in Alaska, Arizona, and Florida, hosted software in Michigan, a change in rates on candy, soft drinks, and personal hygiene products in Illinois, a general sales tax holiday in West Virginia, and a sales tax holiday on firearms in Louisiana.

As part of the new user list, Working Papers 2009 can display when others are using a client file. The product from CaseWare International (www.caseware.com) also now supports Dual Monitors in CaseView so that work can be spread across multiple screens.

The Central Data Store and Shared Data, renamed as the Data Store, can be configured using a new Data Store Administration Tool which requires separate installation, instead of being created through Tools | Options | Data Store

The new Act by Sage 2010 contact and customer manager integrates with social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Plaxo. It is compatible with a subscription-based Act E-marketing service, and is customizable to support various sales models. The application also sports a new look and user navigation.