ATG Integrates PayPal Express Checkout with ATG Commerce

ATG Integrates PayPal Express Checkout with ATG Commerce

Leading e-commerce platform provider adds support for PayPal, providing payment options for high-end Web sellers

ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc., NASDAQ: ARTG), whose e-commerce suite powers more top online sellers than any other, today announced the complete integration of PayPal Express Checkout as a payment option in ATG Commerce. In making full service PayPal functionality available across ATG Commerce and ATG Commerce OnDemand, ATG is providing merchants the ability to drive incremental sales and increase online conversions with one of the leading online payment methods.

PayPal Express Checkout users store their preferred credit, debit or checking account information via their PayPal account and do not have to re-enter this information on individual sites. Allowing customers to shop online without sharing their financial information directly with merchants can alleviate consumer security concerns and streamlines the buying process. By integrating PayPal as a checkout option with the advanced personalization features built into ATG’s e-commerce platform, online sellers can create the optimal customer experience, making e-shopping a more secure, convenient and speedy process. High-end merchants and large retailers that provide multiple payment options for their customers attest to lower shopping cart abandonment rates.

“To grow your business online, it helps to have easy, affordable ways to reach more customers,” said Gene Alston, director of PayPal merchant services. “ATG helps drive e-commerce growth for many of the world’s most recognizable brands, and we are seeing an increased number of large, global merchants who wish to implement PayPal as a payment option on their sites.”

“With more than 153 million accounts, it’s clear that many consumers feel comfortable using PayPal as their preferred payment method,” said Cliff Conneighton, senior vice president, ATG. “Our partnership with PayPal will allow many of the leading brands to mitigate shopping cart abandonment and increase their conversion rates by offering customers the option to use a secure payment option they are already familiar with.”

ATG Commerce is an e-commerce solutions suite available on demand and as licensed software. Consistently noted top in its market by industry analysts, ATG e-commerce solutions automate the complete lifecycle of online sales, marketing and service. ATG Commerce enables business users to personalize the online buying experience for their customers, driving revenue and improving customer retention by making it easy for end-users to find desired products, learn about new ones and easily complete their purchases.

About ATG

ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc., NASDAQ: ARTG) makes the software and delivers the on demand solutions that the world’s most customer-conscious companies use to power their e-commerce web sites, attract prospects, convert them to buyers and ensure their satisfaction so they become loyal, repeat, profitable customers. Our e-commerce suite is ranked the #1 current offering and #1 in strategy by the industry’s most influential analyst firms, and powers more of the top 300 internet retailers than any other vendor. Our eStara brand provides customer interaction solutions to enhance conversions and customer support, and delivers the world’s most widely used click-to-call service. ATG’s solutions are used by over 900 major brands, including Amazon, American Eagle Outfitters, AOL, AT&T, Best Buy, B&Q, Cabela’s, Carrefour, Coca Cola, Continental Airlines, CVS, Dell, DirecTV, El Corte Ingles, Expedia, France Telecom, Harvard Business School Publishing, Hewlett-Packard, Hilton, HSBC, Intuit, Jenny Craig, Macy’s, Meredith, Microsoft, Neiman Marcus, New York & Company, Nokia, NutriSystem, OfficeMax, PayPal, Philips, Procter & Gamble, Sears, Sony, Symantec, Target, T-Mobile, Tommy Hilfiger, Urban Outfitters, Verizon, Viacom, Vodafone and Walgreens. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with additional locations throughout North America and Europe. For more information about ATG, please visit www.atg.com.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause ATG’s actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Important risk factors affecting ATG’s business generally may be found in its periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov . Risk factors related to the subject matter of this press release include the possibility that the ATG product deployment will not be successful, on time or significantly enhance the user’s Internet experience or will not increase customer revenue across brands; that those customers leveraging ATG will not have the opportunity to increase revenue and decrease future costs; the need to adapt to rapid changes so products do not become obsolete; the possibility of errors in ATG’s software products; the possibility that the solution will not make customer implementations faster or more flexible or permit the customer to meet its customer-facing or infrastructure requirements; that the ATG product will not continue to be integrated with third party applications servers or will not support all Web services enabled systems; that ATG’s product strategy may change in the future; and the risks and costs of intellectual property litigation. ATG undertakes no obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release.

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