PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – September 12, 2007 - Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ: EPAY), a leading provider of collaborative payment and invoice automation solutions, today announced that The Carphone Warehouse has expanded its implementation of Bottomline’s document process automation solution. This additional purchase will enable the company to streamline the composition and distribution of transactional documents including contracts and invoices across its retail locations. Europe’s leading independent retailer of mobile phones and services, The Carphone Warehouse operates more than 3,000 stores in 10 countries.

“The flexibility and ease-of-use inherent in Bottomline’s solution has enabled our organisation to significantly reduce the time required to generate customer-facing transactional documents, particularly our service contracts and invoices. By expanding our use of the solution, we will be able to provide a better customer experience and empower local markets to take ownership of their document templates,” said Jack Mochyla, Project Manager of The Carphone Warehouse. “Our initial experience with the solution only reinforced our belief that Bottomline is the right technology partner to help us deliver the benefits of automating these processes throughout our entire retail network.”

Bottomline’s award-winning document process automation solution allows organisations to improve the efficiency of business processes that rely heavily on transactional documents. Through the composition, routing, delivery and storage of paper or electronic transactional documents, organisations can operate and interact with customers and suppliers more cost-effectively. Integrating with industry-leading Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, the solution allows organisations such as The Carphone Warehouse to deliver these electronic documents across multiple communication channels such as fax, email, print or the Web.

“Through our financial process automation solutions, organisations can position themselves to more readily adapt to changing business, customer and regulatory requirements,” said Chris Peck, Europe Group Sales Director, Bottomline Technologies. “The Carphone Warehouse’s decision to increase its investment in our solution is a testament to the business value and service levels we are able to deliver as an organisation.”

About Bottomline Technologies
Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ: EPAY)provides collaborative payment and invoice automation solutions to corporations, financial institutions and banks around the world. The company’s solutions are used to streamline, automate and manage processes and transactions involving global payments, invoice approval, purchase-to-pay, collections, cash management and document process automation. Organisations trust these solutions to meet their needs for cost reduction, competitive differentiation and optimisation of working capital. Headquartered in the United States, Bottomline also maintains offices in Europe and Asia-Pacific. For more information, visit www.bottomline.com

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This press release may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are competition, market demand, technological change, strategic relationships, recent acquisitions, international operations and general economic conditions. For additional discussion of factors that could impact Bottomline Technologies' financial results, refer to the Company's Form 10-K filed September 2006, Form 10-Q filed May 2007 and any recently filed Form 8K's. Any forward-looking statements represent our views only as of today and should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any subsequent date. We do not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

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