LivePayment:An Online Cash Register

New York - Netscape Communications Corp. is offering the Netscape Payment Kit, a software package for businesses that want to conduct Internet commerce on their Web sites.

The Netscape Payment Kit is a software solution designed to enable businesses to build intranet applications and Web sites that can accept credit card payments for goods and services.

Netscape Payment Kit includes the newly available Netscape LivePayment server software for online credit card processing, Netscape Enterprise Server software for building intranets and Web sites, and the Netscape LiveWire Pro visual development environment that creates a full online-commerce solution.

LivePayment is an open, cross-platform server software for processing payments on the Internet. It provides online transaction processing capabilities that companies can add to existing Web sites to begin collecting credit card payments from customers for the goods and services available online.

The Netscape LivePayment solution is server software that is analogous to a cash register, said Mike Homer, senior vice president of marketing at Netscape, Mountain View, Calif.

"The combination of Netscape LivePayment with Netscape Enterprise Server and Netscape LiveWire Pro in the Netscape Payment Kit provides businesses with the tools they need to build open, cross-platform Internet commerce applications and start collecting payments for the goods and services on Web sites."

Netscape LivePayment can receive payment information from Secure Socket Layer-enabled Internet client software, such as Netscape Navigator, and process the transactions over the Internet. Future versions of Netscape LivePayment are expected to support the emerging Secure Electronic Transactions protocol.

The Payment Kit is available now and sells for $3,490. Netscape Live-Payment is also available separately for $1,995 and can be downloaded and given a trial run from Netscape's Internet site at (http://home.netscape.com).

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