PRESS RELEASE Of interest to editors and journalists covering: Business/Finance, Software, eCommerce, Computing, Accounting, CO News AppointmentQuest Announces Online Payment Service for Appointment Scheduling AppointmentQuest introduces industry's first secure credit card payment service integrated with online appointment scheduling BROOMFIELD, CO - Feb. 14, 2005 /Send2Press Newswire/ -- AppointmentQuest (www.appointmentquest.com), the leading provider of online appointment scheduling services, last week introduced a payment services platform integrated with AppointmentQuest Online Appointment Manager hosted application suite. Service merchants now can securely process payments online through AppointmentQuest's trusted online scheduling infrastructure. (Logo: http://www.Send2Press.com/mediadrome/logo-apptquest_72dpi.jpg) AppointmentQuest's secure payment platform provides: * Real-time processing of appointment registration, rescheduling and cancellation fees; delayed captures, voids and credits; * Secure, redundant, high-speed connectivity to credit card processing networks via Verisign Payflow PRO and Authorize.Net Payment Services; * Seamless integration into AppointmentQuest Online Appointment Manager hosted application suite; and * Persistent storage of customer payments history. "In this era of highly competitive online commerce, few businesses can prosper without having an online payment storefront. In fact, you can hardly imagine an online store to be successful without being able to accept credit cards over the Internet. Myriads of hosted payment service providers sprung up to meet the demand of online retail, though most of service merchants were left out of the game - until now. Starting this month, AppointmentQuest is enabling the service industry to get the same benefits long enjoyed by their retail counterparts," says Alex Kolesov, CTO and co-founder of AppointmentQuest. "AppointmentQuest is proud to be the industry's first vendor to offer secure credit card payment processing integrated with online appointment scheduling service". By offering online scheduling, appointment registration, customer management, and payment processing services, AppointmentQuest provides service merchants with a one-stop shop for all of their online commerce needs. About AppointmentQuest AppointmentQuest is a leading provider of online scheduling services for small businesses and professional practices. AppointmentQuest provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use suite of hosted applications that facilitates appointment scheduling between service providers and their customers over the Internet. For more information about AppointmentQuest products and services, please visit: http://www.appointmentquest.com/ AppointmentQuest and AppointmentQuest Online Scheduling Software are service marks of AppointmentQuest LLC. Online Appointment Manager is a trademark of AppointmentQuest LLC. Payflow is a trademark of VeriSign Inc.(R), VeriSign is a registered trademark of VeriSign Inc.(R), Authorize.Net is a trademark of Lightbridge, Inc. All other products, services and company names mentioned in this press release may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. Copr. (c) 2005 Send2Press(tm) Newswire. # # # NEWS SOURCE: AppointmentQuest LLC WEBSITE: http://www.appointmentquest.com MEDIA CONTACT: Alex Kolesov Public Relations of AppointmentQuest LLC info @ appointmentquest.com +1-800-591-9894 ----------------------------------------------------------------- TXT: http://www.Send2Press.com/mediadrome/2005-02-0214-001.txt PDF: http://www.Send2Press.com/mediadrome/news_2005-02-0214-001.pdf Anti-Spam Policy Note for this Archive Copy: if you have received spam email or faxes related to this news story, it did not come from us. View the email headers or fax number where the abuse originated. Send2Press NEVER sends news to the public or to businesses of any kind, only the working MEDIA. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ------------------------- English (lang=en) / Content Copr. (c) 2005 Send2Press Newswire. This release was issued on behalf of the above organization, who is solely responsible for accuracy of content, by Send2Press(R) Newswire, a unit of Neotrope(R). http://www.Send2Press.com Web sites may only reproduce this release verbatim if the originating news source and Copr. (c) 'Send2Press Newswire' is included. [ related: http://www.DotComNewswire.com ]