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Bottomline Launches Near Real-time Faster Payments Solution for Direct Corporate Access to UK's New Payment System

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ: EPAY) a leading provider of collaborative payment, invoice and document automation solutions, today announced that the company's new Faster Payments solution has been used to make the industry's first successful live, direct submission of a corporate Faster Payment into the Direct Corporate Access service.

Bottomline's Faster Payments solution, which is now available, provides corporations with direct access to the new near real-time payments system in the UK. Through the use of this solution businesses can streamline their payments and dramatically reduce bank fees on same-day payments for up to 10,000, representing a fraction of the cost of sending payments by CHAPS, the UK's RTGS payment system.

Faster Payments is a new payment instrument in the UK, launched in May 2008, and available initially via e-banking and phone banking to consumers and corporations. Direct Corporate Access to Faster Payments was recently launched as an enhancement of the Faster Payments system, allowing high volumes of Faster Payments to be managed in a similar way to Bacs, the UK's ACH, which enables businesses to submit payment files directly to the ACH, instead of via banks.

"By integrating Faster Payments onto a single platform with our market-leading Bacs and check solutions, we are able to offer our customers maximum flexibility and efficiency in their payments solutions," said Nigel Savory, Managing Director, Bottomline Technologies Europe. "Being the first solution provider to enable a corporate customer to make a payment into the new Direct Corporate Access service of the Faster Payments system is highly fitting for Bottomline, reflecting our leading position in the UK payments market."

The launch of Bottomline's Faster Payments solution coincides with the central Direct Corporate Access hub managed by Vocalink now being fully operational. Initially rolled out by Barclays, Direct Corporate Access allows corporations to send single or bulk payments of less than 10,000 per item directly into the Faster Payments Direct Corporate Access service for payment within 2 hours. The Direct Corporate Access version is a sister service to the UK Bacs corporate payment channel, used by 30,000 corporations to send payment data for clearing.

"Bottomline is the leading provider of Bacs payment solutions in the UK, with the highest market share," said Savory. "The launch of Faster Payments using Direct Corporate Access offers corporate customers an exciting and cost-effective alternative to the 3-day clearing cycle associated with Bacs, the UK ACH service, and the RTGS CHAPS real-time service."

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About Bottomline Technologies

Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ: EPAY) provides collaborative payment, invoice and document automation solutions to corporations, financial institutions and banks around the world. The company's solutions are used to streamline, automate and manage processes involving payments, global cash management, transactional documents and invoice approval. Organizations trust these solutions to meet their needs for cost reduction, competitive differentiation and optimization of working capital. Headquartered in the United States, Bottomline also maintains offices in Europe and

Asia-Pacific. For more information, visit www.bottomline.com.

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This press release may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are competition, market demand, technological change, strategic relationships, recent acquisitions, international operations and general economic conditions. For additional discussion of factors that could impact Bottomline Technologies' financial results, refer to the Company's Form 10-K filed September 2008, Form 10-Q filed May 2009 and any recently filed Form 8-Ks. Any forward-looking statements represent our views only as of today and should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any subsequent date. We do not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.