Marketplace Acceptance of SmarterCommerce Credit Card Processing for JD Edwards Drives Rapid Customer Growth and Transaction Volumes

CORAL GABLES (April 8, 2005) - This past March, Premier Group’s (Premier’s) SmarterCommerce Credit Card Processing for JD Edwards software offering reached an impressive milestone when SmarterCommerce customers processed their one millionth transaction.  SmarterCommerce continues its momentum in delivering real-time credit card processing to JD Edwards customers with unprecedented integration and simplicity. 

“This achievement reflects the marketplace’s growing acceptance of our SmarterCommerce Credit Card Processing solution which is fast becoming the standard for JD Edwards software users seeking real-time, “end-to-end” automation of credit card processing with their ERP system” indicated Fermin Rodriguez, Managing Director of Premier.

SmarterCommerce Credit Card Processing Solution greatly enhances an organization’s productivity in handling credit card payments.  Through Premier’s partnership with PayPalâ, the worldwide leader in payment processing, SmarterCommerce delivers comprehensive integration between the Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software (formerly JD Edwards OneWorld) and PayPal PayFlow Payment Gateway to address all aspects of credit card processing.

SmarterCommerce Credit Card Processing provides an integrated, multi-channel solution to address the payment requirements of E-Commerce web orders, Call Center phone orders and Retail Point-of-Sale (POS) store transactions.  This end-to-end order processing approach addresses an organization’s needs for real-time authorization, POS sale transactions, settlement at shipment as well as credit card payment as an Accounts Receivable collection tool.

About Premier Group

Premier Group, based in Coral Gables, Florida, is a leading international provider of enterprise business solutions comprised of enterprise software, enabling technology solutions and management consulting services. Through its SmarterCommerce product line, Premier offers robust business solutions, addressing areas such as credit card processing, e-commerce and retail point of sale (POS), that can be easily integrated with JD Edwards and other customer technologies and can be rapidly deployed on a fixed-time and fixed fee basis.

As a JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Channel Partner, Premier represents JD Edwards enterprise software in over a dozen countries in the Americas.  We currently serve our customers through in network of offices in the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America.  For more information, visit www.premierway.com.

About PayPal

PayPal, a division of eBay, Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) operates intelligent infrastructure services that enable people and business to find, connect, secure, and transact across today’s complex, global networks.  Every day, we enable over 14 billion internet interactions, 3 billion telephony interactions, and $100M of e-commerce. We also provide the services that help over 3,000 enterprises and 400,000 Web sites to operate securely, reliably, and efficiently.  For more information, visit www.paypal.com.