Archive for February, 2009
Sales Tax and Address Validation: The Easy E-Commerce Solution
The economy is forcing many stores to close their doors, and as a result, we are seeing more and more businesses move to the internet. What was once a cash and carry nation, has evolved into a PayPal™ and UPS™ standard way of life.
With e-commerce redefining the business world, the little fish finally get to swim in the same pond as the big fish. Anyone with a budget and a vision can launch an online store front, and that’s where we can help.
Service Objects offers fast and easy solutions to help merchants successfully run their online businesses. Our DOTS FastTaxSM Web Service calculates sales tax and use tax, based on street address, zip code, or simple city/state/county information. It can easily integrate into your shopping cart, so the correct tax rate will auto-populate during checkout. We host the tax data and update it monthly, so you don’t have to waste time looking up tax rates or pay a third party to audit your books.
Along with calculating correct sales tax, another critical component to running an online business is verifying customer mailing addresses. DOTS Address ValidationSM is our most popular service – it corrects and standardizes U.S. addresses, as well as determines whether an address is deliverable or not. By using DOTS Address Validation to correct shipping and billing addresses at the point-of-entry, you can prevent the hefty cost of returned packages. We are one of only a few companies that the USPS® trusts with their data, and with monthly data updates, you get only the most accurate mailing information every time.
Combining the power of DOTS Address Validation and DOTS FastTax offers online merchants a simple and effective e-commerce solution. For less than the price of a latte each day, you can calculate tax rates and correct addresses for all of your online customers.
Service Objects offers a diverse range of products to help your online business run smoother, faster, and more efficiently. Give Service Objects a call today, to find out how we can build an affordable solution for you. You can also find out more about our solutions by visiting our Web site.
Thanks for reading,
Marissa B.
Add comment February 26, 2009
What’s New at Service Objects?
The development team here at Service Objects is always hard at work supporting, enhancing, and building new Web services. For this blog, I wanted to take a few minutes to talk to you about two new and enhanced Web services, that we will be releasing in the near future!
DOTS GeoPhone Plus is a new composite service that builds on upon a few of our current Web services, DOTS Phone Exchange, DOTS GeoPhone, and DOTS GeoPhone Wireless. DOTS GeoPhone Plus rolls all of these services into a one-stop shop for telephone number information and validation.
In the past, clients may have purchased up to all three of the previous telephone Web services in order to efficiently access the full range of telephone number information and contact data. Now, clients can access all of same the data with just one transaction of DOTS GeoPhone Plus.
Another new service we are rolling out is DOTS Demographics Plus. In addition to the normal zip code level information returned by the older service, DOTS Demographics, new low level information is also returned. Instead of a zip code, an address is now used as the Web service input. The returned output fields provide resolution down to the block level (about 50 people). Data available at this level includes age, income, and race distributions.
These new services will be available soon and we have many new interesting Web services in the works as well.
Stay tuned!
Jonas S.
Add comment February 23, 2009
The Economy Might be Tough, but We are Tougher!
Despite the downturn in the economy, especially in the IT field, Service Objects continues to grow. Not only do we continue to be profitable, but we are also hiring new talent in all of our departments.
As the Director of IT, I would like to mention two things:
1) We are in the process of expanding our technical team with diversified talent. Our existing and future customers can rest assured that we will continue to strive to ensure we provide the best service, support, and up-time in the industry.
2) In order to accomplish this expansion, Service Objects is committed to investing in our infrastructure, following the latest industry trends, and last but not least, always listening to our clients and fulfilling their needs.
We here at Service Objects are truly thankful to be part of the SO team, especially during these tough economic times.
Go Service Objects!
Thanks for reading.
Alen D.
Add comment February 13, 2009
All the Tools to get your Service Objects Questions Answered
As a member of the Service Objects‘ marketing team, I know first hand that the words contact validation and web services can cause a few questions, and we are always focused on providing our customers and prospects with the tools and information that they need to not only to answer these questions, but also to share how DOTS Web Services can resolve their contact validation needs.
In this blog I would like to point some of these sources out, in hopes that I can provide anyone who wants to know more about Service Objects with some helpful tools that will enable you to do just that.
- Our Web site. I am very happy to say that Service Objects has just released our new and improved Web site! Check it out at www.serviceobjects.com.
- Service Objects’ Monthly Tips and Tricks Newsletter. Every month Service Objects is committed to providing our readers with leading industry news and innovative ways to use DOTS Web Services. You can find our archive of Tips & Tricks Newsletters in our Web site archive, or by subscribing through our online subscription page.
- Product Data Sheets. The best way to gain knowledge is straight from the source, and our data sheets provide just that. You can find data sheets from almost any of our product pages, just click on the Data Sheet button located under Helpful Links.
- Our blog of course! Our blog is a great way for Service Objects team members to share interesting news and insights, and we encourage readers to share their thoughts and feedback with us.
I hope that I was able to provide any curious readers with the tools to get your questions answered. Thanks for reading this week and don’t forget to leave us your questions or comments!
Thanks again,
Dara F.
Add comment February 6, 2009
