ACOM iSeries -- AS/400 -- Division's New Electronic Archiving for Checks Available in December.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 20, 2003

ACOM Solutions' iSeries (AS/400) Division has extended its electronic archiving solution to provide powerful electronic filing, retrieval, printing and transmitting capabilities to users of the company's EZPayManager/400 payment optimization and management system, it was announced today by James R. Scott, vice president and general manager of the division.

Using the newly enhanced module, users can place checks and associated stub information in electronic files directly from a payment run and retrieve them later for viewing or for generation as printed, faxed or email (PDF) duplicate copies, if needed. The archive module is an add-on enhancement to both EZPayManager/400 and EZeDocs/400, ACOM's electronic document optimization and management solution. Base price is $4,450, with availability December 15.

EZPayManager/400 is host-resident on iSeries and AS/400 computers and provides users with the ability to create blended payment environments comprised of laser check printing and electronic payments through the banking industry's Automated Clearing House (ACH) network within the same payment run. Additionally, the payment run can incorporate remittance advice statements (AP) and advice of deposit slips (payroll) produced and delivered as printed copies, fax, email, or by posting to a secure website.

"All that is necessary to use the archive module is to add an Archive command to the electronic check form template," Scott said. "The powerful archiving software conserves space by storing the data in PCL format on the Integrated File System or any network server. When retrieved, printed or transmitted, the information is displayed in PDF format."

The software features a powerful search engine that filed checks by searching on various fields, based on spool data -- check number, check date, customer number, recipient/payee name, amount, sequence number and so on.

Among the additional key features are:

-- Address book -- individual contacts and distribution lists

that are usable from the fax and email options

-- Security -- multi-password security limits access only to

authorized persons

-- Manual deletion -- click on individual records to delete. Also

has purge function

-- Confirmation Screens -- both fax and email, prior to sending

-- Multi-duplicate check transmittal -- hold down CTRL, select

several, send all at once.

"This is an immense convenience feature for disbursement people," Scott said. "Questions about payments are constant, and with the Archive module, the questions can be answered without ever going to a file cabinet for a hard copy. Duplicates can be sent right from the desktop with just a few keystrokes."

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