Avalara will hold its second Crush conference in Austin, Texas, in the spring. The Seattle, Wash.-based sales-tax software company on May 2 and 3. The company says attendees will include accounting professionals and financial executives.

The Sage Group has entered an agreement to purchase Fairsail, an HR software company based in the United Kingdom. Sage already had minority interest in the company, which had launched Sage People, a shared project, in 2016. Fairsail is reported to have annual revenue of about $12.5 million.

Bob Lewis, who most recently worked for Bill.com, has become VP of strategic channels and alliances for AvidXchange. Like Bill.com, which AvidXchange automates invoicing and bill payment processing.

Intacct's recent addition of VARs does not exactly look like a flight of resellers from NetSuite. But some notable dealers that carry NetSuite have been signing up with Intacct and Acumatica. In particular, CohnReznick, which was the major dealer catch announced at NetSuite's SuiteWorld conference in May, signed on with San Jose, Calif.-based Intacct.