ClearCommerce Provides Fraud Protection and Online Payment Processing Solution to Adobe

Business Wire, August 20, 2002

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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 20, 2002

ClearCommerce today announced that the ClearCommerce Suite for authorizing credit card payments and detecting fraud has been successfully implemented on Adobe.com.

The ClearCommerce Suite is a robust, high-performance enterprise application that will support Adobe's e-commerce transaction volumes while maintaining the speed and reliability necessary to ensure customer satisfaction. The software provides automated processing of all major payment types and a powerful risk management platform to optimally manage the cost of fraud.

"Increasingly, leading businesses like Adobe are taking control of the operational and financial success of their online business by bringing transaction processing in-house," said Robert J. Lynch, president and CEO of ClearCommerce. "ClearCommerce software provides high transaction volume merchants with efficient and scalable payment processing, a comprehensive arsenal of fraud protection technologies, and significant cost savings when compared to paying a service bureau on a per-transaction basis."

The ClearCommerce Engine enables businesses to automate the Internet sale through secure back-end transaction processing. Capabilities include real-time transaction processing with the credit card processors, electronic check and ACH payments, extensive risk management protection and analysis, business reports for merchants, storefront integration, APIs to businesses' existing ERP or fulfillment systems, and shipping and tax calculations.

About ClearCommerce Corporation

Austin, Texas-based ClearCommerce is the leading provider of e-commerce payment processing and risk management software that enables merchants and service providers to safeguard and automate online financial transaction processing. ClearCommerce software is used by more than 50,000 businesses worldwide, including customers such as Apple Computer, Barclay's, Best Buy, PETsMART, Sony Online and Orbitz. ClearCommerce solutions feature real-time payment processing, as well as patent-pending risk management technology. For more information, visit www.clearcommerce.com.