EveryWare Development Corp. competes head-on with iCat and Intershop; EveryWare's Tango Merchant, outperforms the competition when implementing and administrating electronic commerce Web sites.

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 1997--EveryWare Development Corp. has announced that their electronic commerce application, Tango Merchant, will be available on the Windows NT platform May 1, 1997.

Tango Merchant is a comprehensive, customizable, electronic commerce solution that enables businesses to easily establish storefronts on the World Wide Web. Tango Merchant provides retailers with a complete solution, from order placement to product fulfillment. The easy-to-use administration environment saves retailers substantial development time, allowing them to quickly provide a secure on-line shopping solution to their customers.

Tango Merchant for Windows will include two components: a Web storefront, and a cross-platform administrator. Tango Merchant will allow merchant's to store product, customer, and order information into Microsoft's SQL Server or Access database. One of Tango Merchant's unique features is its outstanding flexibility. The store-front consists of HTML templates that can be easily modified or altered to better meet merchant's needs.

Since the Web storefront was developed using Tango Enterprise, EveryWare's easy-to-use rapid application development tool, merchants can easily alter or customize the complete application. For example, if a merchant would like to interface with an existing inventory management system or have unique shipping requirements integrated into their merchant solution they can easily modify the components of Tango Merchant using either the Macintosh or Windows version of Tango Enterprise.

Tango Merchant outperforms the competition on many fronts, including: -0-

-- Support for real-time credit card authorization;

-- Multiple payment methods including credit card & purchase orders;

-- Comprehensive import capabilities;

-- Multimedia support for, audio, videos, movies (QT and QTVR);

-- Unlimited product sub-categories;

-- Supports all HTML levels as well as JavaScript, RealAudio, ShockWave, and Java;

-- Ability to export sales information for processing and reporting purposes;

-- Unlimited number of products can be presented to customers;

-- Provides the ability for merchants to easily customize any component of the application;

-- Point-and-click data entry screens;

-- Cross-platform, remote administration features;

-- Detailed reporting capabilities including customers, items, and back-orders;

-- Designate users for security of store administration and management;

-- Customizable tax codes, payment systems, and shipping charges;

-- Seamless integration with industry standard accounting packages;

-- Buy Now button; allows merchants to extend their commerce solutions to other sites on the Internet, automatically pointing individuals back to the merchant site;

-- Provides an important marketing database populated with customer information and transaction details;

-- Seamless installation from CD, network, or Web site;

-- Email processing, and Blind Carbon Copy support, allowing order information to be sent back to the customer and/or fulfillment houses;

-- Product information can be dynamically served from the database and updated remotely. -0-

Tango Merchant Administrator is an application that simplifies the set-up and administration of electronic store-fronts. Tango Merchant Administrator provides point-and-click ease-of-use for all administrative tasks such as specifying payment and shipping details to reviewing, printing, and reporting customer order information.

Tango Merchant comes complete with a SQL database, allowing merchants to keep their Web commerce application up to date without taking their solution off-line as pricing and product offerings change. Information is updated in the database through the point and click interface of Tango Merchant Administrator. Merchants do not need experience with databases or SQL in order to add products, update prices or conduct other administrative activities.

"With this release we bring our easy-to-use merchant solution to NT developers," said Rick Pajot, director of commerce solutions. "Tango Merchant is the only commerce application on the market that allows merchants to easily extend or customize their application. If the shipping charges module is not suited to the type of business your running then, using our development tool Tango Enterprise, merchants can build their own customized solution."

Web sites such as Computer Town, Red Light Communications, MBI Fermentas, GDT Softworks and many more are using Tango Merchant to implement their e-commerce solution.

Pricing and Availability

Tango Merchant is priced at $3,400 for a single store front, or $6,500 for unlimited stores providing a shopping mall environment. Both support multiple shopping baskets and unlimited shoppers. Tango Merchant 1.2 for Windows is available May 1st.

About EveryWare Development Corp.

EveryWare Development Corp. is committed to securing a leading position in the Intranet Rapid Application Development (IRAD) market by providing businesses with cross-platform development tools that dramatically reduce the development time of Web-based applications.

The company supports multiple operating environments, including Mac OS, Windows NT/95, and UNIX. EveryWare has seven key products: Tango Enterprise, a Web/database integration tool; Tango for FileMaker, a Web/database integration tool specifically optimized for FileMaker Pro databases; Tango for Access, a Web/database tool designed for Access databases; Bolero, a Web site tracking and analysis application; Tango Merchant, an on-line shopping basket solution; Butler SQL, a client/server relational database management system; and Connected, a cross-platform multi-user accounting system.

EveryWare Development Canada Corp. trades under the stock symbol "EVY" on the Alberta Stock Exchange. To order any of EveryWare's products call 888/819-2500, e-mail [e-mail], or visit the EveryWare Web site at http://www.everyware.com/ . -0-

Note to Editors: EveryWare, the EveryWare logo, Tango, Tango Merchant, Bolero, Butler SQL, and Connected are trademarks of EveryWare Development Corp. Other product and corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of other companies, and are used only for explanation and to the owners' benefit, without intent to infringe. The Alberta Stock Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved the information contained herein.

CONTACT: EveryWare Development Corp.

Jeff Hendry, 905/819-1173 ext. 262

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