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AmericanWinery.com Offers ‘Tax Relief’ for Winery Partners;
Integration with ShipCompliant for Destination Tax Solutions

WALLA WALLA, Wash.—AmericanWinery.com, the leading web-based marketplace for direct-to-consumer wine sales, now provides destination tax solutions to wineries via an integration with the industry standard shipping compliance solution, ShipCompliant. This time-saving service is free to wineries partnered with AmericanWinery.com

Twenty-two states require wineries to collect sales tax on direct shipments, with many variations on how those rates are applied, from simple state and city level rates to rates based on information not commonly captured in shipping addresses, such as county and nine digit zip code. Detecting the county or nine digit zip code, assigning the appropriate tax rate and accurately reporting tax collected by code has been an onerous challenge for wineries.

ShipCompliant routinely performs these steps for hundreds of wineries while performing core functions of order compliance checks and report automation. AmericanWinery.com’s integration sends destination address information to ShipCompliant, receives the appropriate tax rate back, and applies it to the customer order. Behind the scenes, ShipCompliant has verified the shipping address against multiple external sources and located the appropriate tax rate to return. This entire process happens instantaneously, with no impact on the customer purchasing experience.

This significant, yet seamless integration is the first phase of an integration with ShipCompliant services into AmericanWinery.com’s marketplace offering. "We are pleased to have ShipCompliant providing this solution to us. It's confidence building for our winery partners to know the most accurate tools available are utilized during the checkout process," says Lloyd Benedict, AmericanWinery.com CEO / Founder.

About AmericanWinery.com

AmericanWinery.com is the premier destination for buying distinctive, American-made wines, direct from the winery. The company has 360 wineries utilizing the direct marketplace and enables direct-to-consumer sales of over 2,000 wine selections, making it one of the largest hubs for domestic wine sales in the United States. Every AmericanWinery.com purchase is “Select Direct” and shipped directly from the winery of choice. Any US winery can partner with AmericanWinery.com in a non-exclusive arrangement with no upfront costs or monthly fees. To learn more about AmericanWinery.com please visit the site (www.AmericanWinery.com), call 1-888-ENOLOGY or email info(at)AmericanWinery(dot)com

About ShipCompliant

ShipCompliant is the leading compliance and fulfillment management software solution for wineries and wine retailers, providing 100% accurate compliance checks on orders, auto-populated state direct shipping and tax reports, and many other efficiencies associated with address validation, carrier integration, and accurate tax collection. ShipCompliant's technological infrastructure allows it to easily integrate with other software systems across all steps of the chain between winery and end consumer resulting in easy workflows and time savings for winery staff. To view a demo of the system and see how wineries and retailers are saving time and money, please go to http://www.shipcompliant.com/features or call toll free at (888) 449 5285.