ClickandBuy® expands to North America, offering solutions to online content providers.

”FIRSTGATE announces ePaymentnews as its first North American customer using ClickandBuy® solutions to power premium content sales.”

As one of Europe’s leading content commerce companies, FIRSTGATE Internet AG, has expanded its reach to the United States where it is known as WebPay, Inc. In an age when offering free content and services is no longer cost-effective, FIRSTGATE Internet Inc. introduces the ClickandBuy® system. This system provides a unique platform for content providers to increase revenue and attract new customers by charging for premium content with the click of a mouse.

The ClickandBuy® solution allows ePaymentsnews to cost effectively charge consumers for access to its premium content. By integrating advanced payment functionality, ePaymentsnews.com is able to offer a variety of price and purchase options, including micropayments, subscriptions, time based passes and gift subscriptions to generate revenue from the site's digital content.

”Using the ClickandBuy® payment processing solution, we now better serve our customers' needs by offering a variety of payment and service options," explains Torbjorn Zetterlund, Publisher ePaymetnsnews.

FIRSTGATE’s back office payment-solution is designed to complement and support all payment methods and content to best suit a content provider’s needs. Everything is included - from audio, video, news, and games to subscriptions, pay per click, time based billing: per minute, per hour, per day etc. – the possibilities are endless. The real advantage of this system is the extraordinary ease content providers have in registering and selling their content using the ClickandBuytm system. Many currently available payment systems require extra software to download and take months for content providers to set up. With ClickandBuy®, content providers are ready to receive customers within hours of registration and without the cumbersome need to install software. The unprecedented success of this innovative approach led British Telecom, UK to form a partnership with FIRSTGATE Internet AG and license the ClickandBuy® system.

About FIRSTGATE
In only 3 years, ClickandBuy® has established itself to one of the leading payment solutions for digital content and e-services. Over 1.7 million Internet users have purchased digital content with FIRSTGATE ClickandBuy™, and each month up to 100,000 new users register for the service. More than 3,000 online content providers are currently making profits using FIRSTGATE ClickandBuy®. Examples of major companies that trust their e-commerce business to ClickandBuy® include CNN/N-TV.de, Reader’s Digest, Encyclopædia Britannica, RTL, Playboy.de, Bild.t-online.de, Spiegel.net AG, German Post, AutoScout24 and UNICEF. A full overview of content providers can be found on FIRSTGATE and affiliates’ websites. Please visit:
http://www.firstgate.de
http://www.clickandbuy.com
http://www.btclickandbuy.com

About ePaymentsnews

Founded in 2001, ePaymentsnews (www.epaymentsnews.com) is a global integrated online information resource that facilitates a user community devoted to the business of the e-payments industry. Connecting users, suppliers and interested parties, in over 65 countries worldwide, ePaymentsnews offers an online guide and dynamic information resource for any business that receives or processes e-payments.

Contact and additional information:

Eberhard Dollinger
ClickandBuy International Limited
Lincoln House
137 / 143 Hammersmith Road
W14 0QL London
Telefon: + 49 (0)221 - 4545700
Telefax: +49 (0)221 - 4545721
presse@de.clickandbuy.com
www.clickandbuy.com/DE/en/