MonsterCommerce Selects GeoTrust QuickPayments
for its online payment services offering

A leading single-source ecommerce provider to offer GeoTrust QuickPayments Service as Standard Solution for Online Payment Processing of Customers’ E-business transactions

September 8, 2003 - Wellesley, Mass. - GeoTrust, Inc., a leader in identity and security solutions for e-business and the second largest certificate authority, today announced that MonsterCommerce, a single source ecommerce provider has selected GeoTrust QuickPayments to process its customers’ Internet payment transactions. MonsterCommerce offers online merchants e-commerce store building tools, design services, merchant accounts, and web site promotion services. MonsterCommerce will offer QuickPayments Services as a standard part of its e-commerce packages. QuickPayments Services enables e-businesses to accept credit card payments and fulfill orders online. The services cost substantially less than similar e-commerce payment solutions on the market.

“Partnering with MonsterCommerce allows GeoTrust to expand our reach to more businesses and provide them with a cost-effective online payment solution,” said Neal Creighton, CEO of GeoTrust. “GeoTrust QuickPayments Services provides an easy way for merchants to quickly start taking orders online and with significant savings. ”

GeoTrust QuickPayments Services offers easy and fast merchant account set-up that enables immediate connectivity to the leading payment processing networks without any complicated software or hardware. After filling out the Web-based enrollment form, merchant accounts are ready for access within minutes. QuickPayments supports multiple payment types, including credit cards, purchase cards and debit cards, and is pre-integrated with all major shopping cart applications.

MonsterCommerce CEO, Stephanie Leffler, “MonsterCommerce has offered GeoTrust security services for several years. Due to our successful relationship with GeoTrust [on the security side] we chose to take the partnership to the next level. We accomplished this goal by offering GeoTrust QuickPayment Services. Our combined service offerings enable our clients to build stores and accept secure payments cost effectively.”

QuickPayments Services Features and Benefits
GeoTrust’s automated technology is changing the way e-commerce accounts are established, by providing merchants with an entirely new and fast alternative to legacy payment solutions. GeoTrust has automated the process and made it not only easy but also inexpensive for businesses to start taking credit card orders online. GeoTrust Quick Payments Services offers the following benefits:

• Immediate e-commerce capabilities - Instant merchant account establishment and activation
  
• Easy to implement and use - No installation or configuration required. Downloadable and pre-integrated with major shopping cart applications and e-commerce platform
  
• Payment versatility – Immediate connectivity to all major payment processors for support of all major credit and debit cards
  
• Advanced fraud protection - Ability to limit spending and amount of transactions per day
  
• Easy administration – Secure Web-based access to central administration center to fully manage accounts online
  
• Secure and reliable connectivity - Hosted in high-security, redundant data center. Uninterrupted TCP/IP streams between merchants and consumers
  

About MonsterCommerce, Inc.

MonsterCommerce, Inc., is a single-source e-commerce company providing critical components for online selling including: e-commerce software, web design, web promotion and domain name registration services. Since 1998 MonsterCommerce has provided e-commerce services to thousands of e-commerce businesses. MonsterCommerce, Inc services can be located at: http://www.monstercommerce.com.

About GeoTrust, Inc.

GeoTrust, Inc., an emerging leader in Identity and Trust Services, helps organizations of all sizes secure e-commerce transactions, trusted identities and fully managed trusted environments for conducting e-business. GeoTrust's Web Security Services offer hosting providers and businesses with world-class digital certificates for fast transaction security and patent-pending smart-seals to ensure a trusted identity on the Web. GeoTrust also offers managed security services for large enterprises. With more than 40,000 companies in over 140 countries using its technology for transaction security, GeoTrust is the second largest digital certificate provider in the world. GeoTrust can be reached at www.geotrust.com or 800-944-0492.

GeoTrust is a registered trademark of GeoTrust, Inc. QuickSSL and True Site are trademarks of GeoTrust, Inc. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.