Product news: QuickBooks debuts online sales tax calculator

QuickBooks launches online sales tax calculator

QuickBooks has launched a sales tax calculator landing page on its site aimed at helping small and midsized businesses see how local sales tax affects their business. The sales tax calculator, which is free to use, automatically takes into consideration relevant key information from a business, and tracks and automatically updates all of the rules and rates according to every change by each state, to produce the right rate for every transaction, from calculation through filing. The idea is to reduce the risk of error and minimize the likelihood of a sales tax notice or audit. There are almost 11,000 local sales tax jurisdictions in the United States.

Vertex partners with PinnacleCart, integrates software

Vertex’s indirect tax solutions software now integrates with PinnacleCart, an e-commerce platform that reports more than 30,000 online stores as customers. PinnacleCart is a turnkey e-commerce solution serving small and midsized businesses. The software is customizable and scalable, and allows merchants to create, design and manage their online storefront across multiple sale channels including web, mobile and social media.

Snow Software names CEO, expands leadership team

Snow Software, which makes software asset management software, governance and risk software, among others, has named Vishal Rao its new CEO. He succeeds founder Axel Kling. Kling will remain on the board of directors. The company also named Rachel Mooney as chief people and culture officer, and James Denena as CFO.

“Our opportunity continues to expand with the mass adoption of enterprise cloud services, IaaS, IoT and edge computing,” stated Rao. “We are uniquely positioned to empower businesses to gain complete visibility into their technology stack, then use those insights to optimize efficiency and effectiveness while ensuring regulatory compliance and data protection.”