BrightStores Integrates StrikeIron’s Sales and Use Tax Web Service for
e-Commerce Shopping Cart Applications
Provides BrightStores’ customers with real-time access to
accurate sales tax information
Research Triangle Park, NC – May 2, 2006– StrikeIron Inc., provider of the
Web Services Marketplace, today announced that BrightStores has integrated
StrikeIron’s Tax Data Systems Sales and Use Tax Web Service into their shopping
cart application. The Sales and Use Tax Web service allows users to instantly
receive the sales and use tax rates for any ZIP or postal code in the United
States or Canada. Because the data is delivered via a Web service and StrikeIron
continuously updates the source database, BrightStores never has to reintegrate
updated tax data into their shopping cart application.
“With StrikeIron’s Sales & Use Tax Web service, our customers simply
enter a ZIP code and instantly receive the real-time, accurate sales tax rate,”
said Dan Halama, President of BrightStores. “By integrating with Web services we
are able to save our customers time, effort, and money, yet always deliver the
most accurate sales tax rate.”
Bright Stores provides scalable Company Store solutions for the promotional
products industry. Their stores include a wide variety of activated features,
which meet the demanding needs of both smaller and larger clients. With the
StrikeIron Sales and Use Tax Web Service, they were able to seamlessly add live
data into to their application by simply connecting to the web service to
extract the data it provides. BrightStores ecommerce merchants only pay for the
sales and use tax data for the customers that buy from their stores and they no
longer have to worry about maintaining an up-to-date database of sales and use
tax rates.
“StrikeIron’s growth is being fueled by software vendors recognizing the
value of integrating Web services into their applications. We are dedicated to
providing the most reliable and trusted Web services on the market today, as
well as making it easy for our software partners to integrate these Web services
into their own applications,” said Bob Brauer, President and CEO of StrikeIron. “Reducing complexity and providing more functionality quickly, as
well as providing an additional revenue stream, will help our software partners
find success with our Web Services Marketplace.”
About BrightStores
BrightStores e-commerce products have been designed and built by former
distributors (with the help of some really smart technical guys) specifically
for the promotional products industry. We understand your business, speak your
language and believe our product addresses the unique needs of custom decorating
and the custom decorating online ordering process. For more information, visit
www.brightstores.com.
About StrikeIron
StrikeIron is the leader in providing innovative solutions for delivering data
over the emerging Internet. The company’s innovative Web Services Marketplace
provides a technology platform, micro-transaction management and a consistent
interface across many XML-based Web services from multiple, diverse sources.
This allows business users, application developers and enterprise IT
professionals to customize and integrate external data sources and additional
external functionality into enterprise, Web, and composite applications.
Currently, StrikeIron provides over 100 live data sources and business
functions from organizations such as Cortera, D&B, Gale, MapQuest, Midnight Trader,
Tax Data Systems, The Sports Network, and Zacks.
StrikeIron also offers IronCloud™, the only comprehensive Web services delivery
platform that opens up new channels for data distribution and consumption
through Web Services. Enterprises of all sizes can now reduce the cost and
complexity of managing the challenges of data distribution which include
leveraging an existing external hardware and software architecture, controlling
and metering access and usage, external monitoring for 24x7 reliability, full
usage analytics, as well as multiple authentication scenarios and instead
concentrate their focus on making information easier for partners, customers,
and distributed business units to access and use. StrikeIron delivers value to
over 1,500 customers and partners such as Avaya, BEA, Delivery.com, IBM, Honda
Europe, D&B, Siemens, Nike, Swarovski, ShoeBuy, and Exclusive Resorts. For
more information, visit www.strikeiron.com.
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Dan Halama
BrightStores
(303) 663-3510
dan@brightstores.com