Avectra has signed CliftonLarsonAllen and Axis Integrated Solutions to resell Avectra's Social CRM to associations and nonprofit organizations.  The accounting firm  and St. Louis, Mo.-based Axis will offer the Avectra product in combination with Intacct's online accounting software.  CliftonLarsonAllen, based in Milwaukee, Wis. is offering the product lines through its outsourced accounting services for nonprofits.

Abila, the former Sage Nonprofit Solutions, has acquired Avectra, which makes CRM applications for associations and not-for-profits. Terms were not disclosed.

QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions racked up its best year ever in terms of the increase of number of active users. The somewhat midmarket product had 92,000 active users when Intuit's year ended on July 31, an increase of 26,000 from 73,000 at the end of fiscal 2012. Sequentially, the year-end total was 8.2-percent higher than the 85,000 on the books at the end of the third quarter.

Brian Austin, director of accountant and industry relations at Avalara, has been named to the board of directors of the Information Technology Alliance. Austin begins his three-year term next month. ITA is a two-pronged organization of accounting software resellers and consultants and the top 30 accounting firms, which I have generally described as the being the best and the brightest in the profession.