Ezic Internet Payment Platform Upgrades Continue With New Advanced Recurring Billing Options

September 2004 (Chicago, Illinois) - Ezic, Inc. has released upgrades to its popular Recurring Billing Solution, offered since 1999. The upgrades give merchants full control over repeat billing of previous customers, without having to store cardholder data locally and become subject to Visa CISP (Cardholder Information Security Program) audits. Instead, cardholder data is stored within Ezic's secure environment, and the merchant initiates future transactions using an Ezic virtual payment number.

Recurring Billing refers to fixed amount transactions at fixed intervals, billed to the customer's checking or credit card account. Repeat Billing refers to variable amount transactions initiated by the merchant at any time or interval, billed to the customer's checking or credit card account on a per transaction basis. Prior to this upgrade, merchants performing repeat billings were forced to go through rigorous audits to secure Visa CISP compliance and approval to store cardholder data.

Processing of the first Repeat Billing transaction for a customer through the system generates an Ezic virtual payment number that is returned to the merchant. This unique Ezic virtual payment number will be accepted in lieu of the real customer payment information for future transactions. The actual customer information is stored at Ezic in a coded format in Ezic's Visa CISP compliant environment.

"This market driven upgrade was developed in response to specific requests from Ezic merchants and resellers," said Locke Walsh, Ezic's CEO. "Ezic's upgraded Repeat Billing can be particularly useful to healthcare providers with returning patients, for billings in membership club environments or for utilities where both regularly scheduled and on-demand charges for services are intermixed," he continued.

With Ezic's Recurring Billing Upgrade, merchants can process transactions ranging from annual subscription renewals to on-demand charges against existing recorded card or checking accounts, conveniently and with complete security.

With these billing options the merchant now can...

* easily create or change a Recurring or Repeat Billing account.
* define billing intervals and transaction amounts with total flexibility.
* easily find all records for all Recurring or Repeat billed customers.
* fully support subscription and installment billing programs.

For additional information on Ezic's Internet Payment Platform please contact Bill Polich, Vice President, Business Development, bill.polich@ezic.com / 847-327-9870 ext 17.

About Ezic
Ezic, Inc. has been a leading provider of digital payment solutions since 1999. Our high performance processing solutions offer merchants unparalleled convenience, continuous market driven advanced product feature development and complete multi-level security against fraud for all Internet based transactions. Ezic, Inc. has completed the stringent annual re-certification for Visa Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP) compliance and is an active participant in MasterCard's Site Data Protection Service (SDP). Additionally, Visa has certified Ezic's own Verified by Visa Merchant Protocol Interface.

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