Zamp reduces monthly sales tax management time to 5 minutes
Rohit Badangay · Zamp's Series A: $14M in 15 Months · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Sep 13, 2024 · at 26:42
Rohit Badangay, founder and CEO of sales tax platform Zamp, discusses the operational time savings Zamp delivers for $10M–$20M e-commerce and SaaS brands.
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“Typically customers are spending, I don't know, like two to five minutes a month managing the sales tax. And then beyond that, on the backend, our team, people, technology, automation kind of take care of everything else. And so for the customer, now they go from spending, you know, 2030, 40 hours a month on sales tax. And that's for like a 10, twenty million dollar brand. To now spending, you know, five minutes, give or take.”
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