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Bottomline Technologies Reports Second Quarter Results; Revenue Growth Continues to Drive Profit.


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, N.H. -- Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ NASDAQ
 in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

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: EPAY), a leading provider of payments and invoice An itemized statement or written account of goods sent to a purchaser or consignee by a vendor that indicates the quantity and price of each piece of merchandise shipped.

A consular invoice is one used in foreign trade.
 automation software and services, today reported financial results for the second quarter and six months ended December December: see month.  31, 2005.

Revenues for the second quarter were $26.1 million compared with $23.9 million in the second quarter of last year. Net income for the second quarter was $1.1 million, or net income per share of $0.05, compared with a net income of $1.2 million, or net income per share of $0.07 in the second quarter of last year. The fiscal 2006 second quarter net income reflects the expense impact associated with stock-based compensation as a result of accounting rules that Bottomline adopted on July July: see month.  1, 2005.

During the second quarter of fiscal 2006, the company incurred acquisition-related amortization of intangible assets Intangible Asset

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Notes:
Examples are things like copyrights, patents, intellectual property, and goodwill. These are the opposite of tangible assets.
 of approximately ap·prox·i·mate  
adj.
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2.
 $774,000, and stock compensation expense of $1.7 million. Excluding these acquisition related and stock compensation items, non-GAAP net income for the second quarter was $3.6 million, or non-GAAP net income per share of $0.16, compared with non-GAAP net income of $2.0 million, or non-GAAP net income per share of $0.11, in the second quarter of last year. The operating results represent a $1.6 million increase in non-GAAP net income from the second quarter last year.

"We continue to deliver both customer value and business plan results. From a financial perspective, we were especially pleased with the increase in EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) A metric used to show a company's profitability, but not its cash flow. EBITDA became popular in the 1980s to show the potential profitability of leveraged buyouts, but has become ," said Joe Mullen Joseph Mullen (born February 26, 1957 in New York, NY) is a retired American professional ice hockey player who played 17 seasons in the National Hockey League with the St. , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Bottomline Technologies. "We have also recently announced two acquisitions. The purchase of Visibillity adds to our strong position in the growing legal spend management market. The acquisition of Tranmit, which was announced yesterday, extends our product set in the invoice management and payables Payables

Related: Accounts payable
 solutions market. Looking forward, we believe we have more value to offer both our large customer base and new clients."

Revenues for the six months ended December 31, 2005 were $50.8 million compared with $45.7 million in the same period last year. Net income for the six months ended December 31, 2005 was $1.2 million, or net income per share of $0.05, compared with a net income of $1.9 million, or net income per share of $0.10, in the same period last year. Net income for the six months ended December 31, 2005 reflects the expense impact associated with stock-based compensation as a result of accounting rules that Bottomline adopted on July 1, 2005.

During the six months ended December 31, 2005, the company incurred acquisition-related amortization of intangible assets of approximately $1.7 million and stock compensation expense of $3.4 million. Excluding these items, non-GAAP net income for the six months ended December 31, 2005 was $6.3 million, or non-GAAP net income per share of $0.27, compared with non-GAAP net income of $3.6 million, or non-GAAP net income per share of $0.19, in the same period of last year. The six-month operating results represent a $2.7 million increase in non-GAAP net income from the same period last year.

Bottomline has presented supplemental non-GAAP financial measures as part of this earnings release. The non-GAAP financial measures exclude certain non-cash items, specifically amortization of intangible assets and stock compensation expense. The presentation of this information should not be considered in isolation to, or as a substitute for, the financial results presented in accordance Accordance is Bible Study Software for Macintosh developed by OakTree Software, Inc.[]

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 with GAAP GAAP

See: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles


GAAP

See generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
. Bottomline believes that these supplemental non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors because it allows for an evaluation of the company with a focus on the performance of its core operations. Bottomline's executive management team uses these same non-GAAP measures internally to assess the ongoing performance of the company. Since this information is not a GAAP measurement of financial performance, there are material limitations to its usefulness on a stand-alone (jargon) stand-alone - Capable of operating without other programs, libraries, computers, hardware, networks, etc. Exactly what is absent is presumed to be obvious from context.

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 basis, including the lack of comparability of this presentation to the GAAP financial results of other companies. A reconciliation of the GAAP results to the non-GAAP results for the three and six month periods ending December 31 is as follows:
Three Months Ended   Six Months Ended
                                   December 31,        December 31,
                                  (in thousands)      (in thousands)
                                ------------------- ------------------
                                  2005      2004      2005      2004
                                 --------  --------  --------  -------
GAAP Net Income                 $  1,069  $  1,240  $  1,215  $ 1,919
Amortization of Intangible
 Assets                              774       756     1,661    1,642
Stock Compensation Expense         1,743         6     3,401       14
                                 --------  --------  --------  -------
Non-GAAP Net Income             $  3,586  $  2,002  $  6,277  $ 3,575
                                 --------  --------  --------  -------


Customer Highlights:

--Continued market adoption of Legal eXchange(R), Bottomline's Web-based legal spend management solution, signing multi-year contracts with McKesson McKesson Corporation (NYSE: MCK) is a large United States-based corporation specializing in the distribution of health care systems, medical supplies and pharmaceutical products.  Corporation, Erie Erie, indigenous people of North America
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 Insurance Company and a leading oil and gas company during the quarter.

--Key banking customers, UMB (1) (Upper Memory Block) See UMA.

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 Bank and Fifth Third Bancorp, broadened their investments in Bottomline's modular electronic banking and enterprise payment platforms.

--Well-known organizations such as Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., or simply Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is one of the world's largest global investment banks. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869, and is headquartered in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City at 85 Broad Street. , Budget Rent A Car, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (pĕnsəlvā`nyə), one of the Middle Atlantic states of the United States. It is bordered by New Jersey, across the Delaware River (E), Delaware (SE), Maryland (S), West Virginia (SW), Ohio (W), and Lake Erie and New York  Hospital, Campbell Soup Company Campbell Soup Company (NYSE: CPB) (also known as Campbell's) is a well-known American producer of canned soups and related products. Campbell's products are sold in 120 countries around the world. It is headquartered in Camden, New Jersey. , Forest City Enterprises and Yum Brands selected Bottomline's platforms to automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation.  and enhance financial processes.

Company and Product Highlights:

--Acquired Visibillity, Inc., a provider of legal e-billing (Electronic-billing) Paying bills by mail. See EBPP.  solutions for the insurance industry. The acquisition further extends Bottomline's position as a leading provider of Web-based legal spend management services, and adds a number of significant clients to its growing customer base, including CNA (Certified NetWare Administrator) See Novell certification.  Insurance, Employers Mutual Casualty Company and RiverStone Riverstone can mean several things:
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 Group.

--Acquired Tranmit Plc, a provider of Web-based purchase-to-pay automation solutions, on January January: see month.  24, 2006. The addition of Tranmit's invoice management capabilities further enhances the company's ability to provide global organizations with comprehensive hosted, licensed and outsourced Outsourced is a modern day comedy of cross-cultural conflict and romance, directed by John Jeffcoat, released in 2007. Synopsis
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 solutions for improving the overall efficiency and productivity of the accounts payable function.

--Announced Pan-European payments and reporting capabilities for the WebSeries(R) platform, enabling European European

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This term is generally used in the context of consolidated financial statements.
 multiple banking connections and prepare for the advent of the new Single European Payments Area (SEPA SEPA® Soft enhancer of percutaneous absorption Therapeutics A technology that enhances transdermal drug delivery. See Transcutaneous therapy. ) standard.

--Delivered to market Create!form(R) for Oracle E-Business Suite A group of integrated Internet-based applications from Oracle. Introduced in 2001 as Version 11i, it includes modules for CRM, finance, human resources, supply chain management as well as applications for business intelligence.  Special Edition, providing small- and mid-sized Oracle SE business users with a framework from which electronic documents can be used to drive more complex, transactional process automation.

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 industry-leading corporations, banks and financial institutions to automate, manage and control processes involving payments and collections, invoice approval, cash flow, risk mitigation MITIGATION. To make less rigorous or penal.
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, reporting and document archive (1) A file that contains one or more compressed files. Most archive formats are also capable of storing folders in order to reconstruct the file/folder relationship when decompressed. See archive formats. . For more information, please visit www.bottomline.com.

Bottomline Technologies, WebSeries, Create!form, Legal eXchange and the BT logo are 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 contains "forward-looking statements forward-looking statement

A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections.
" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and  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 Internal Operations (I.O., IO or I/O) is a fictional American Intelligence Agency in Wildstorm comics. It was originally called International Operations. I.O. first appeared in WildC.A.T.S. volume 1 #1 (August, 1992) and was created by Brandon Choi and Jim Lee.  and general economic conditions and other risks described in our annual report on Form 10-K Form 10-K

A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information.


Form 10-K

See 10-K.
 for the year ended June June: see month.  30, 2005. 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.
Bottomline Technologies
       Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations
               (in thousands, except per share amounts)

                                                 Three Months Ended
                                                    December 31,
                                                  2005        2004
                                                ----------  ----------
Revenues:
   Software licenses                           $    3,615  $    5,359
   Service and maintenance                         18,597      14,560
   Equipment and supplies                           3,906       4,033
                                                ----------  ----------

Total revenues                                     26,118      23,952

Cost of revenues:
   Software licenses                                  396         663
   Service and maintenance (1)                      7,794       6,282
   Equipment and supplies                           3,115       3,063
                                                ----------  ----------

Total cost of revenues                             11,305      10,008
                                                ----------  ----------

Gross profit                                       14,813      13,944

Operating expenses:
     Sales and marketing (1)                        6,195       6,272
     Product development and engineering (1)        2,803       2,603
     General and administrative (1)                 4,495       3,202
     Amortization of intangible assets                774         756
                                                ----------  ----------

Total operating expenses                           14,267      12,833
                                                ----------  ----------

Income from operations                                546       1,111

Other income, net                                     867         236
                                                ----------  ----------

Income before provision for income taxes            1,413       1,347
Provision for income taxes                            344         107
                                                ----------  ----------

Net income                                     $    1,069  $    1,240

Basic and diluted net income per share         $     0.05  $     0.07
                                                ----------  ----------

Shares used in computing net income per share:
      Basic                                        22,687      17,914
      Diluted                                      22,988      18,953
                                                ----------  ----------

Non-GAAP (excluding acquisition-related
amortization and stock compensation
expense):(2)
      Net income                               $    3,586  $    2,002
                                                ----------  ----------
      Diluted net income per share             $     0.16  $     0.11
                                                ----------  ----------

(1)  Stock based compensation is allocated as
     follows:
      Cost of revenues: service and
       maintenance                             $      119  $        -
      Sales and marketing                             582           -
      Product development and engineering             209           6
      General and administrative                      833           -
                                                ----------  ----------
                                               $    1,743  $        6
                                                ==========  ==========
(2)  Non-GAAP presentation excludes charges
     for amortization of intangible assets of
     $774 and $756 and stock compensation
     expense of $1,743 and $6, for the three
     months ended December 31, 2005 and 2004,
     respectively.



                        Bottomline Technologies
       Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations
               (in thousands, except per share amounts)


                                                  Six Months Ended
                                                    December 31,
                                                  2005        2004
                                                ----------  ----------
Revenues:
   Software licenses                           $    6,872  $    9,021
   Service and maintenance                         36,133      29,184
   Equipment and supplies                           7,792       7,494
                                                ----------  ----------

Total revenues                                     50,797      45,699

Cost of revenues:
   Software licenses                                  701       1,375
   Service and maintenance (1)                     15,331      12,096
   Equipment and supplies                           6,175       5,707
                                                ----------  ----------

Total cost of revenues                             22,207      19,178
                                                ----------  ----------

Gross profit                                       28,590      26,521

Operating expenses:
     Sales and marketing (1)                       12,540      11,794
     Product development and engineering (1)        5,317       4,886
     General and administrative (1)                 8,708       6,308
     Amortization of intangible assets              1,661       1,642
                                                ----------  ----------

Total operating expenses                           28,226      24,630
                                                ----------  ----------

Income from operations                                364       1,891

Other income, net                                   1,505         293
                                                ----------  ----------

Income before provision for income taxes            1,869       2,184
Provision for income taxes                            654         265
                                                ----------  ----------

Net income                                     $    1,215  $    1,919

Basic net income per share                     $     0.05  $     0.11
Diluted net income per share                   $     0.05  $     0.10
                                                ----------  ----------

Shares used in computing net income per share:
      Basic                                        22,424      17,727
      Diluted                                      23,115      18,634
                                                ----------  ----------

Non-GAAP (excluding acquisition-related
amortization and stock compensation
expense):(2)
      Net income                               $    6,277  $    3,575
                                                ----------  ----------
      Diluted net income per share             $     0.27  $     0.19
                                                ----------  ----------

(1)  Stock based compensation is
     allocated as follows:
      Cost of revenues: service and
       maintenance                             $      246  $        -
      Sales and marketing                           1,160           -
      Product development and engineering             438          14
      General and administrative                    1,557           -
                                                ----------  ----------
                                               $    3,401  $       14
                                                ==========  ==========
(2)  Non-GAAP presentation excludes charges for
     amortization of intangible assets of
     $1,661 and $1,642 and stock compensation
     expense of $3,401 and $14, for the six
     months ended December 31, 2005 and 2004,
     respectively.


                        Bottomline Technologies
            Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
                            (in thousands)

                                             December 31,   June 30,
                                                 2005         2005
                                              -----------  -----------

Assets
Current assets:
   Cash, cash equivalents and short-term
    investments                              $    88,963  $    35,916
   Accounts receivable                            22,559       22,956
   Other current assets                            4,154        4,893
                                              -----------  -----------

Total current assets                             115,676       63,765

Property and equipment                             7,219        6,940
Intangible assets                                 48,013       38,695
Other assets                                         778        1,041
                                              -----------  -----------

Total assets                                 $   171,686  $   110,441
                                              ===========  ===========

Liabilities and stockholders' equity
Current liabilities:
   Accounts payable                          $     5,764  $     6,094
   Accrued expenses                                8,909        9,381
   Other current liabilities                      11,500            -
   Deferred revenue and deposits                  18,024       20,738
                                              -----------  -----------

Total current liabilities                         44,197       36,213

Deferred revenue and deposits, non current         1,104        1,435
                                              -----------  -----------

Total liabilities                                 45,301       37,648

Stockholders' equity
   Common stock                                       23           19
   Additional paid-in-capital                    235,830      182,534
   Accumulated other comprehensive income          1,153        2,350
   Treasury stock                                   (875)      (1,149)
   Retained deficit                             (109,746)    (110,961)
                                              -----------  -----------

Total stockholders' equity                       126,385       72,793
                                              -----------  -----------

Total liabilities and stockholders' equity   $   171,686  $   110,441
                                              ===========  ===========
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