Kurant Integrates UPS OnLine Tools into StoreSense E-Business Solution [January 12, 2004]

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 12, 2004 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Kurant Corporation, a leading provider of e-business software for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB), today announced that it has integrated UPS OnLine(R) Tools into StoreSense, its award-winning e-business platform.

Merchants using StoreSense complete with UPS OnLine Tools can digitize their entire shipping process, allowing online customers to shop, ship and track merchandise from a single location. These merchants can now offer their customers real-time package tracking, shipping rate and service selection, address validation, and the ability to print UPS shipping labels. This increased efficiency and functionality can help merchants reduce merchandise returns, decrease customer support phone calls, and virtually eliminate address errors at order entry.

"Integrating UPS OnLine Tools within third-party applications increases the ease of use of UPS services for our customers' customers, while adding value to their applications. In this case, Kurant enables merchants and their customers to easily and quickly complete shipping transactions to improve their online shopping experience," said Jeff Enyart, senior director, Customer Technology Marketing for UPS.

"By integrating UPS OnLine Tools into StoreSense, we are making the online purchase process easier and more flexible for our merchants and their customers," said Curtis Pierce, president and CEO of Kurant. "UPS is a leader in its space and helps consumers feel at ease when purchasing items on the Web."

About StoreSense

Kurant StoreSense is a complete e-business suite for small and medium-sized businesses. StoreSense's rich feature set ranges from simple, wizard-driven Web site and e-store capabilities to sophisticated site design tools, advanced commerce functionality and high-end e-business management. Offered on a cost-effective monthly subscription basis, StoreSense is available from Kurant's reseller partners throughout the U.S., Canada and the world. StoreSense is also available online in the QuickBooks Software Add-on Store on Amazon.com (www.amazon.com/quickbooks).

StoreSense offers data integration with the QuickBooks(R) family of accounting products, allowing two-way transfer of critical business data between a merchant's online store and desktop financial system. The specific QuickBooks versions that share data with StoreSense include: QuickBooks Pro and Premier Editions 2002-2003, QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 2.0-3.0, QuickBooks Online Edition, and Canadian editions of QuickBooks Pro and Premier 2003.

About Kurant

Kurant Corporation provides software that enables small businesses to conduct business online through dynamic, interactive Web sites. StoreSense, our flagship product, is a comprehensive e-commerce platform that allows companies to easily add commerce to an existing Web site or create a sophisticated Web Store including: inventory management, supplier communication and integration with QuickBooks. StoreSense is delivered to small businesses through Kurant's global resellers that include financial service organizations, Web hosting companies and trusted small business partners. Incorporated in 1998, San Francisco-based Kurant is privately held. For more information, contact Kurant at www.kurant.com or (888) 463-2696.

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SOURCE: Kurant Corporation

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