Joint Press Release

SHOPKEEPER™ SOFTWARE AND PARALLEL SOFTWARE PARTNER TO PROVIDE INTEGRATED FILEMAKER PAYMENT SOLUTIONS ON THE MAC OS X™ AND WINDOWS™ PLATFORM

For Immediate Release

Round Rock, TX, and Naperville, IL, (December 1, 2003)

ShopKeeper Software, Inc a leading provider of high performance POS and business accounting software, and Parallel Software a premier Macintosh-based credit card and financial payments software engineering firm, today announced they have entered into a joint agreement to expand, distribute and support electronic payment technologies within the ShopKeeper FMP™ product line. These technologies will include Credit Card Authorizations, ACH, and Gift Card processing capabilities for the coming year.

According to Parallel's C.E.O and President John McMahon, “ShopKeeper’s FMP Family of products will offer the option of using Parallel’s AuthPayX FMP Client Plugin’s (for both Mac OS X and Windows users) and will be available to US and Canadian enterprises by January 1, 2004. This option will allow users of ShopKeeper ™ to have direct connection(s) to the major credit card processors without the need for a payment gateway. This will reduce ShopKeeper’s customer’s transaction costs and provide the ability to support several merchant bank relationships with a single server. This technology will allow ShopKeeper™ users to integrate all of their processing through a single Mac OS X or UNIX server machine.”

For more information about this relationship please contact: info@AuthPayX.com or info@shopkeeper.com
About ShopKeeper Software, Inc.:

Based in Round Rock, Texas, ShopKeeper Software, Inc. is a software development and distribution company that has been selling point of sale / order entry / inventory software since 1985. More information about the company and its products can be found

http://www.ShopKeeper.com

About Parallel Software:

Located in the heart of Silicon Prairie, Parallel Software is a leading US-based provider or financial software development, since 1991. They provide the only direct client-server network model for enterprise payments anywhere for MacOSX and UNIX.

http://www.AuthPayX.com/AuthPayExpress

Note: Trademark Information

Mac OS X are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.; AuthPay Express™ family of products, AuthPayXFMP for MacOS X and Windows ™, AuthPayX Server Engine ™ are registered trademarks of Parallel Software;

Filemaker is a registered trademark of Filemaker, Inc.; Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation; UNIX is registered trademarks of their respective owners.