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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Vershawn Thompson
Vershawn Thompson

International Accountant

Vectorworks
Industry Software Development
Role International Accountant
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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I don't know if Avalara actually saves money because I know it I know it may cause a little bit but it does save us a lo...

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Role Sales Tax Specialist
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Within using the product, okay? So, here's a big one. When I first started, we use binders for exempt, certificates, and...

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Role Accountant
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Especially with our ECM because we have a lot of customers that are tax-exempt. And right now, we're finishing up the PC...

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Role Sr. Accounting Manager
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Oh yeah, for sure. Definitely costumes and then cost savings, which is within like the time our time it takes so we're s...

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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Absolutely, absolutely. The research side of it alone is huge because we can just put in the address of where the locati...

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Sarah Schwab
Sarah Schwab

Senior Accountant, Sales Tax

Cascade Engineering
Industry Manufacturing
Role Senior Accountant, Sales Tax
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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As of right now, I work with a I file taxes, all on my own, I have to deal with all the exemption, certificates on my ow...

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Industry Software
Role Tax Accountant
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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I think the biggest way I Valera save me a huge amount of time is a sales tax rate changes and updates, they are on top...

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Industry Professional, Scientific & Technical Svc
Role Financial Coordinator
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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They're saving us time because currently we're charging sales tax into seven, different states. Meaning, you know, each...

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Amber Holifield

AR & Sales Tax Specialist

Currey & Company
Role AR & Sales Tax Specialist
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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If my boss was here, she'd probably say no. She probably says, I'm we've actually spent more money but honestly, yeah, b...

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Dionesi Lopez

Senior Tax Accountant

ISACA
Role Senior Tax Accountant
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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1000%. I was actually the one having to do the manual returns for the 33 states are registered in. That was just so time...

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Role Senior Tax Analyst
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Oh, absolutely. Yes. So we used to do everything manually in house. It would take 80 hours across all of our business un...

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Role Senior Tax Analyst
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Who so for as far as certificates, like the whole automation of uploading the bulk uploading that save time. Like I use...

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Keisha Washington
Keisha Washington

Accounting Specialist

Murj
Industry Professional, Scientific & Technical Svc
Role Accounting Specialist
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Definitely a lot of time ever. Text tool is just wonderful. It's on its in are embedded in our invoices and so once I've...

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Tracey Smith

Department Manager Sales Tax Compliance

Hendrick Automotive Group
Role Department Manager Sales Tax Compliance
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Well we created a whole new department so it just I think it's given like our parts and service managers. A lot more tim...

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Denise Marenna

VP of Dealership Accounting

Hendrick Automotive Group
Role VP of Dealership Accounting
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Well sure, of course because it won't even come from the use of the product is obviously have to pay for the product hav...

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Role CFO / CIO
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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It's very hands-off as far as once you get it, set up, T, tax rates flow, as long as your salespeople, put in the Craig,...

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Role Tax Manager
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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We hope to what we will save time in our manual calculations. We did have about 20 jurisdictions and so we have we have...

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Role Senior Accountant
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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There are several different ways. Most importantly I think is probably in tax cuts and tax per product, tax classificati...

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Role CFO
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Just time time time. I mean we probably run about 20,000 to 25,000 transactions a month. So just the fact of all of that...

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Role Compliance Manager
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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I think there has been times the time. It saves me. I can't even measure. I mean, cuz I, I have, I actually have free ti...

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Sue Parks

Director of Accounting

Belmont Instrument LLC
Role Director of Accounting
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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So, I think I guess the most amount of time that I get saved, is really the tax returns. So when I first started, we wer...

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Role Accountant
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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So when it was, when I had to file 23 States, before we used a Valera returns, it took about two weeks after our merger...

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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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I think the same the same thing with like the returns, you know not having to file every month, it's very automated and...

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Samantha Cougot

Accounting Specialist

Starc Systems
Industry Manufacturing
Role Accounting Specialist
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Yeah, absolutely. So we the time-saving is that we have were in all states. So there's only five states that don't charg...

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Role Accounting Supervisor
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Oh yeah. Well, so our biggest group is actually linked directly. So, it calculates taxes without us having to maintain t...

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Role Finance Coordinator
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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So not just yet but I can't. I do know that the major time-saving first is going to be when it comes to ECM Pro. Because...

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Customer Story
Industry Accounting
Role Principal
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Absolutely, because a valera's automated and we're using tools like Al trick. So a client that sends us information that...

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Customer Story
Industry Wholesale & Distribution
Role Controller
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Being able to run the reports and not having to make those myself. So we do use their returns. We filed a return to the...

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Customer Story
Industry Software
Role Senior Tax Manager
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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When I came to intermedia, they did not have a process to break out the bundles and things in, in each component of a bu...

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Nate Kerr
Nate Kerr

Tax Accountant

Batteries Plus
Industry Retail
Role Tax Accountant
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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It definitely helps us save time because you can set it all up once, right. And we have thousands of different items and...

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Customer Story
Industry Manufacturing
Role Account Manager
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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My billing, my billing is so much easier and so much quicker because of the fact that I have that one level are button a...

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Customer Story
Industry Manufacturing
Role AP Manager
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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So avalara saved us a ton of time because we don't have to keep up with all the tax changes with every state. One time t...

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Role Excise Tax Manager
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Okay so already prior to go live of the Evel are products which happened this year in August we had things completely ma...

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Role Director of Finance
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Oh, just doing the returns alone, really with changing the frequencies and making sure that they're done. And with every...

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Role Associate
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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It saves time and money because of the efficiency of the product or products are reliable. They are efficient, and the d...

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Todd Evans
Todd Evans

Corporate Credit Manager

Eckart
Industry Manufacturing
Role Corporate Credit Manager
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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How I mean we would have to register manually you with each and every state make sure we recording those thresholds. You...

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Sarah Adkins Wiggins
Sarah Adkins Wiggins

Accounting Specialist

Starc Systems
Industry Manufacturing
Role Accounting Specialist
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Well, they're very good with sending me emails and reports letting me know which states that I have incorrectly set up o...

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Role President
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Time and money is the same thing so it saves me time. Absolutely. Once you get up and rolling, it's virtually hands-free...

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Jay Yan

Tax Technology Manager

Groupon
Industry Professional, Scientific & Technical Svc
Role Tax Technology Manager
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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It's a saves us a lot of time before all the text coding test calculations and we input all the sales are like a tax rat...

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Customer Story
Industry Retail
Role Accountant
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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I, Believe by having a speech. Follow. Me stress so much. Is he? Structure in knowing when the certificate.

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Customer Story
Role Tax Manager
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Well, as far as if you put it that way, it would be easier. I mean, we're not having to calculate rates. So the rates ar...

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Abby  Perez
Abby Perez

Corporate Accountant, Indirect Tax

Nedap
Industry Manufacturing
Role Corporate Accountant, Indirect Tax
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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The way the tax filing and the compliance of knowing what the next. It's just helps so much of the research. We just Wha...

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Melody Emricson

Senior Accountant

Davisware
Industry Software
Role Senior Accountant
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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His time on the. Tracks returns. Who don't have to spend hours, was how we have to do is going on a problem. And provide...

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Industry Retail
Role Controller
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Well, it saves us time because like like at the end of the mind, you can just download the reports and match it directly...

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William Mullaney
William Mullaney

Sr. Manager Indirect Tax - AIG

Thermo Fisher Scientific
Industry Manufacturing
Role Sr. Manager Indirect Tax - AIG
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Valera saves me time in regards to the application of the longitude and latitude stat uses to determine tax tax base tec...

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Christian Bellino
Christian Bellino

Revenue Manager

NEFCO
Industry Wholesale & Distribution
Role Revenue Manager
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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A Valera has incredibly helped our team as it comes to tax compliance as well as managing all of our exempt. Certificate...

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Customer Story
Industry Retail
Role Controller
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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I don't know where to start. Managed returns all of my sales tax returns. Whether they are monthly, which I have. Am mon...

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Andre Johnson
Andre Johnson

Business Analyst

NEFCO
Industry Wholesale & Distribution
Role Business Analyst
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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well, for one, we've been able to use programs within a Valera such as AB attacks to save us time and money by being abl...

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Krunal  Patel
Krunal Patel

Financial Controller

Crunch Labs
Industry Professional, Scientific & Technical Svc
Role Financial Controller
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Avalara works really great for u.s. domestics, like it's good. I spend very minimal time and reviewing tax return for do...

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Customer Story
Industry Wholesale & Distribution
Role Controller
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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Before avalara I would spend one and a half to two days filing tax returns each month for these various States knowing h...

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Industry Software
Role Tax Director
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In what ways does Avalara save you time and money?

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It's really time saving and automating the whole process. Which we many companies need to really get away from from doin...

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