Avangate announces a new end-user oriented service

Amstelveen, Netherlands -- (ReleaseWire) -- 02/06/2008 -- Avangate BV, full service provider for electronic software distribution and reseller management for software vendors announces a new end-user oriented service that adds more value to the shopping experience, positively influences the buying decision and increases sales volumes.

The Download Insurance Service available with Avangate lets end-users re-download the software they have purchased for two years, at anytime.

"Whatever you offer end-users besides the actual product or service they have purchased is a competitive advantage and a big plus in the buying decision process. The new service we are introducing today is very important because it gives end-users the peace of mind that for two full years they can always re-download the software and do not have to bother with backups," explains Cristian Dorobantescu, Marketing Manager, Avangate.

The service is optional and software vendors can easily manage it in their Avangate Control Panel, it does not affect the commission schemes and it requires a reasonable charge from the end-user, defined by software vendors themselves on top of Avangate basic fee. The pricing scheme is an original one, depending on the product download file size and gives full pricing liberty to the software vendor.

"The Download Insurance Service is another product purchase related add-value service we launch, after options like Avangate Back-up CD, order as a gift and other marketing tools. We are quite sure it will rapidly translate in higher sales for our software vendors, as we already had the chance to witness sales increase when you offer end customers the comfort of having the purchased product at hand, at anytime, again and again, with the Avangate Back-up CD" says Laurentiu Ghenciu, Sales Manager, Avangate.

The service is available as of today to all software vendors using the Avangate eCommerce platform and in order to activate it they should contact their dedicated account manager. Immediately after activation the Download Insurance Service appears available for purchase, at a value set by the software vendor, on the shopping cart page.

More information on Avangate services is available on the official website http://www.avangate.com.

About Avangate
Avangate is an eCommerce platform for electronic software distribution incorporating an easy to use and secure online payment system plus additional marketing and sales tools, such as an affiliate management system, automated cross-selling options, software promotion management, Internet marketing services as well as consultancy on how to increase online software sales. Avangate is produced and managed by GECAD ePayment, member of GECAD Group - delivering innovative IT solutions Worldwide since 1992. More information can be found on its corporate website, at: http://www.avangate.com

For further information, contact:

Avangate
Tel.: +31 20 890 8080
Email: info@avangate.com
Web: http://www.avangate.com

For Media related enquiries, contact:

Cristian Dorobantescu – Marketing Manager, Avangate
Tel.: +31 20 890 8080
Email: press@avangate.com

Offices:
Headquarters address Avangate B.V.
Van Heuven Goedhartlaan 937
1181 LD Amstelveen
Amsterdam Metropolitan Area
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 20 890 8080
Fax: +31 20 203 1309

Operational & Development Avangate B.V.
10A Dimitrie Pompei Blvd.
Conect Building, 2nd floor
020337, Bucharest
Romania
Phone: +40 21 303 2068
Fax: +40 21 303 2067

US Sales Office Avangate Inc.
Mountain View Center
800 West El Camino Real
Mountain View, CA, 94040 USA
Phone: 650 963 5701
Sales phone: 650 943 2447

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Amsterdam, The Netherlands -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/02/2008 -- Avangate BV, full service provider for electronic software distribution for software vendors introduces Affiliate's Doctor, an innovative support program within the Avangate Affiliates Program, including Live Chat and personalized, one-to-one business consultancy.

The Affiliate's Doctor builds personal relationships with affiliates, provides right-on advice on setting up promotions, improving product presentations or campaign management, and has the keenest eye for online business matchmaking. Avangate establishes special agreements with affiliates in the vendor's name, looks for niche affiliates whose profiles best fit a certain vendor's products, starts strategic partnerships with such affiliate VIPs as BitsDuJour and GiveAwayOfTheDay.

"Dr. Affiliates helps growing affiliates' business and implicitly, software vendors' sales. We basically sustain affiliates activity with web sales know-how and we do it with a one-to-one approach," says Cristian Dorobantescu, Affiliates Network Coordinator, Avangate. "We make things happen, ease the affiliate support load for the vendor, improve vendors sales through affiliates, help the affiliates optimize their sites, promotions and overall conversion rates," adds Cristian Dorobantescu.

Affiliates Live Chat is available to all affiliates using the Avangate system, within the dedicated Control Panel, and each issue is addressed personally by our Affiliates team.

"At Avangate we focus on quality and this translates in need-specific solutions built according to direct input from the market. We listen to vendors, to affiliates, to shoppers and we develop tools that ease everybody's job," says Cristian Badea, CIO, Avangate. "Dr Affiliate with the live chat and the growing set of tools is our response to affiliates' need for ongoing technical and business support," adds Cristian Badea.

Avangate Affiliates Network integrates with the Avangate eCommerce services portfolio for software vendors, completing the eCommerce platform, the Reseller Management System, and the Web Marketing services. The affiliate network managed by Avangate displays all the tools needed to run a successful affiliates business such as feed generator, promotion page, affiliation reports or the recently launched collaborative marketing tool which allows vendors to build a collection of marketing resources (graphical elements and text) ready to be used by their affiliates.

About Avangate
Avangate is an eCommerce platform for electronic software distribution incorporating an easy to use and secure online payment system plus additional marketing and sales tools, such as an affiliate management system, automated cross-selling options, software promotion management, Internet marketing services as well as consultancy on how to increase online software sales. Avangate is produced and managed by GECAD ePayment, member of GECAD Group - delivering innovative IT solutions Worldwide since 1992. More information can be found on its corporate website, at: http://www.avangate.com

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Avangate B.V, announced today the launch of myAvangate - an innovative reseller management system designed to help software vendors proficiently manage resellers and gain control over the entire sales channel.

Amstelveen, Amsterdam, Netherlands -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/31/2006 -- Avangate B.V. announced today the launch of myAvangate - an innovative reseller management system designed to help software vendors proficiently manage resellers and gain control over the entire sales channel. The product facilitates an enhanced visibility over end-customer information leading to a boost in software revenues from increased license renewal sales. myAvangate can be tested by registering on www.avangate.com.

The new solution allows software vendors to focus more on business development, as it answers real challenges faced during the software selling process: keeping track of resellers, knowing end-customers, speeding up orders and payments and staying aware of opportunities. In addition, myAvangate also offers benefits to resellers and ultimately contributes to a growth in software sales together with client satisfaction.

"myAvangate brings an important change into the software distribution market, making possible the switch from tedious, manual sales work towards intelligent and efficient business management. The solution answers the needs of software vendors and helps them better control their distribution channel. We expect to catch the interest of the worldwide software community once they've tested the product", appreciates Carmen SEBE, Director at Avangate B.V.

In brief, myAvangate provides license, partner, and product management, 24x7 fast order processing, automatic registration code delivery to resellers and an end-customer registration system. Partner payments are simplified with multiple options integrated within the system, including online payments via debit/credit cards.

Presently myAvangate is available as Release Candidate version and will be ready for commercial release by the end of 2006. Subscribe to e-mail updates at www.avangate.com/newsletter.

myAvangate is offered separately or together with the Avangate e-Commerce platform for online software sales.

More information can be found on the company's website, at www.avangate.com.

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Avangate, e-commerce provider for online software sales, sponsors the 6th annual European ShareWare Conference.

Amstelveen, Amsterdam, Netherlands -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/24/2006 -- Avangate, shareware registration service and e-commerce provider for online software sales, sponsors the 6th annual European ShareWare Conference. The two day event will be held on the 4th and the 5th of November 2006 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cambridge, UK.

The ESWC conference is the last major shareware event of the year and another opportunity for shareware professionals to keep up to date with the latest theories and practices in the software business.

"The challenges that the software industry is facing now require easy to implement, secure and flexible tools. Avangate sales and marketing solutions answer well these requirements and can enhance a software business", says Dragos Stanescu, Sales Manager at Avangate B.V.

By sponsoring the ESWC conference, Avangate, also a member of several important professional associations, continues its commitment to support and be closer to the software developers' community.

The purpose of the conference is to provide a gateway to facilitate sharing information to and for shareware developers and companies and organizations who provide products and services to shareware developers. More information can be found at http://www.euroconference.org.

About Avangate
Avangate provides eCommerce solutions for electronic software distribution, incorporating an easy to use and secure online payment system plus additional marketing and sales tools such as an affiliate management system, automated cross selling options, software promotion management, software marketing services as well as consultancy on how to increase online software sales.

More information can be found on the corporate website, at: www.avangate.com

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Amstelveen, Amsterdam, Netherlands-- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/05/2006 -- Avangate, shareware registration service and e-commerce provider for online software sales, now accepts PayPal in order to extend the number of payment related choices and increase convenience and simplicity for software buyers worldwide.

Avangate offers vendors the possibility to accept quick and secure online payments with multiple options: all major debit and credit cards, wire transfer, and now PayPal, in 15 different currencies including US Dollars and Euros. The new service was added due to popular demand from software vendors and shoppers alike.

"By adding PayPal we ensure our clients are able to offer their customers a wide range of payment options when purchasing from their website. We expect that this extra facility will be popular amongst software buyers." said Carmen Sebe, CEO.Software vendors will receive PayPal payments into their own PayPal account.

About Avangate

Avangate provides eCommerce solutions for electronic software distribution, incorporating an easy to use and secure online payment system plus additional marketing and sales tools such as an affiliate management system, automated cross selling options, software promotion management, software marketing services as well as consultancy on how to increase online software sales.
More information can be found on the corporate website, at: www.avangate.com

For further information, contact:

Avangate
Tel.: +31 20 890 8080
Email: info@avangate.com
Web: www.avangate.com

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Amstelveen, Amsterdam, NL -- (ReleaseWire) -- 08/15/2006 -- Avangate, provider of eCommerce services for electronic software distribution, will sponsor ISDEF autumn 2006, the 5th Anniversary conference of the Independent Software Developers Forum in Moscow. The autumn edition of this year will take place at the Holiday Inn Moscow Sokolniki, October 5th to 8th 2006.

ISDEF is a key host of discussions on software market developments and trends, an important event for software developers and vendors in Russia and surrounding countries, as well as for major players in the software industry.

"Avangate also sponsored the 2006 spring edition of ISDEF, where we delivered a presentation on cost effective approaches to marketing strategy for online software vendors. For the first time sponsoring a Russian event, Avangate was well received by conference attendees.

We have since become a member of the ISDEF Association, which enables us to know our partners better, respond to their needs accordingly and to exchange easier ideas and knowledge with professionals in the field." commented Cristian Badea, Chief Information Officer at Avangate.

ISDEF was formed in late 2002 and the association's conferences have become one of the high-profile international events. The previous ISDEF 2005 conference attracted over 500 participants. More information about ISDEF can be found at: www.isdef.org/en

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