Bottomline Technologies Advances Electronic Document Capabilities; Create!form(R) Updates Streamline Financial Document Composition and Workflow from ERP Output.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. and SAN FRANCISCO -- Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ: EPAY), a leading provider of payments and invoice automation software and services, and Certified Partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork, today at Oracle OpenWorld 2005 announced the availability of expanded document composition and workflow modeling functionality for its Create!form family of products.

Integrating with ERP and other back-office systems, Bottomline's Create!form products provide advanced output formatting capabilities that reduce paper by generating and delivering financial documents electronically. An enterprise-class application, Create!form 6.1 allows users to convert standard application output into more functional and efficient electronic documents and data, which are then systematically routed to recipients via multiple delivery channels including print, fax, email and Web, or to a digital archive. Through this end-to-end automated workflow, Bottomline's Create!form customers are able to significantly reduce transactional document processing and distribution time, improve cash flow, lower costs and limit exposure to risk.

"As the needs of our organization evolve, our ability to maintain operational efficiency will be a determining factor in our long-term success," said Wes King, IT Manager, Austin Brothers Group, a longtime Bottomline customer and Create!form 6.1 beta user. "With its new interfaces, Create!form 6.1 has allowed us to more closely align document output with important business processes and establish a framework for greater efficiency and accuracy."

Enhancements to the Create!form product suite include the introduction of new Create!form Designer(TM) and Create!form Director(TM) interfaces, which allow Bottomline's customers to:

--Streamline the modeling and automation of complex transactional business processes through augmented document and data connectivity.

--Leverage broad support for multiple output formats (e.g. XML, CSV) to rapidly convert ERP input data into custom documents, such as forms, invoices, pick slips or NACHA-compliant electronic payment files.

--Enhance the speed of output generation with new file manipulation and publishing options for database updating, PDF publishing and FTP/HTTP.

--Provide augmented Adobe digital signature support with new functionality for e-signature PDF object insertion.

"The ongoing emphasis on business efficiency and process automation has spawned a re-assessment of how organizations can best leverage the combination of ERP investments and document output management solutions to their advantage," said Chip Martin, Vice President of Product Management, Bottomline Technologies. "Advancing the functionality and capabilities of Create!form enables organizations to increase overall value in the document output process through end-to-end process automation."

Pricing and availability

Create!form 6.1, including the new Create!form Director and Create!form Designer interfaces, is now available for order. Pricing for a basic configuration begins at under $10,000 (USD).

About Bottomline Technologies

Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ: EPAY) provides payments and invoice automation software and services to organizations seeking more secure and efficient financial processes. The company remains at the forefront of delivering innovative solutions that complement and extend the value of existing financial processes, business relationships and back-office systems. These solutions have enabled the world's leading corporations, banks and financial institutions to automate, manage and control processes involving payments and collections, invoice approval, cash flow, risk mitigation, reporting and document archive. For more information, please visit www.bottomline.com.

Editors Note: Bottomline will be demonstrating Create!form 6.1 in booth 2012 at Oracle OpenWorld, September 17-22, Moscone Center, San Francisco. To arrange an onsite meeting, contact Billy Balfour at [phone].

Bottomline Technologies and the BT logo are registered trademarks of Bottomline Technologies, Inc. which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other brand/product names are trademarks of their respective holders.

Cautionary Language

This press release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including statements regarding expected benefits of use of the Company's products and future growth or results. Among the important factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the 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 10K filed September 2005, Form 10Q filed May 2005 and any recently filed Form 8K's.