Optimal Payments Joins Demandware LINK to Accelerate Commerce Innovation

Integrated Online Payment Solution Offers Demandware Clients Global Payment and Fraud Management Capabilities

LONDON, MONTREAL and NEW YORK, Oct. 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ - Optimal Payments Plc (LSE AIM: OPAY), a leading global online payment solutions provider, announces it is now a Demandware LINK Technology partner and has launched its NETBANX® Payment Cartridge. Providing an integrated link between Demandware® Commerce and Optimal Payments' NETBANX payment gateway, Optimal Payments offers Demandware clients a global payment acceptance and fraud management solution.  

Optimal Payments allows retailers to minimize fraud losses while maintaining a positive checkout and brand experience for their customers. Backed by almost two decades of ecommerce payments experience, online businesses have access to international and multi-currency payment processing capabilities, as well as extensive risk management tools and integrated fraud management services.

"As a Demandware LINK Technology Partner, our goal is to provide a payment solution that adds value to retailers using Demandware Commerce. With our pre-built integration, Demandware clients can implement sophisticated global payment capabilities quickly and easily," said Danny Chazonoff, chief operating officer, Optimal Payments. "Our NETBANX Payment Cartridge can enable Demandware's clients to maximize profits, minimize losses, build their brands and continue to provide excellent customer service around the world."

With Optimal Payments' NETBANX hosted payment solutions, retailers using the Demandware platform can reduce their PCI DSS compliance requirements and safely create customer account profiles that store sensitive cardholder data and payment information using tokenization. Integrated directly to the NETBANX payment gateway, the new cartridge gives merchants access to a wide range of customizable fraud-management tools and access real-time transaction data and reports. Additionally, retailers will be able to customize the look and feel of their payment pages and offer a mobile-optimized shopping experience through a seamless integration using REST-based APIs.

About Optimal Payments Plc

Optimal Payments is a global provider of online payment solutions, trusted by businesses and consumers in over 200 countries and territories to move and manage billions of dollars each year.  Merchants use the NETBANX® platform and services to simplify how they accept credit and debit card, direct-from-bank, and alternative and local payments; and the NETELLER® service to increase revenues and capture new customers.  Consumers use the multilingual and multicurrency NETELLER and Net+® Card stored-value offering to make secure and convenient payments. Optimal Payments Plc is quoted on the London Stock Exchange's AIM, with a ticker symbol of OPAY.  Subsidiary company Optimal Payments Ltd is authorised and regulated as an e-money issuer by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FRN: 900015).

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