iCat AND Tre@SureNET MAKE IT EASIER FOR MERCHANTS
TO OFFER INTERNET-BASED CATALOG SHOPPING

To facilitate its interactive online catalog creation capabilities, Tre@SureNET is partnering with iCat Corporation, a leading electronic commerce and catalog creation company. Tre@SureNET will offer its customers design/marketing support for the iCat Commerce Publisher by giving access to the iCat Commerce Exchange database server. This gives merchants the ability to create and offer powerful interactive catalogs on the Internet by providing templates for both catalog pages and data-entry forms, built-in support for secure transactions, and a wide range of reports for the merchant.

"Combining powerful catalog creation capabilities with Tre@SureNET's Web Design Service gives merchants the resources necessary to establish and maintain a successful electronic commerce catalog Web site," said Karl Chu, Representative of Tre@SureNET. "While a great deal of industry discussion has focused on discrete tools, merchants are demanding a complete solution. They want electronic commerce solutions to be easy, integrated, and cost-effective. And that is exactly what Tre@SureNET's Commerce Design/Marketing Service delivers. With a simple-to-use, single-source electronic commerce design/marketing solution, we expect to attract a whole new class of merchants to the Internet."

"There are significant demands for a comprehensive electronic commerce design/marketing solution," noted Craig Danuloff, President of iCat Corporation. "Many merchants simply don't have the resources to maintain an electronic commerce-based web site. As one of main Web site design/marketing service providers in Atlanta, Tre@SureNET is very well positioned to accommodate this growing community of merchants who recognize the advantages of providing products and services to a worldwide customer base utilizing the Internet. With today's partnership, Tre@SureNET and iCat are making interactive catalog shopping via the web easier than ever."

iCat ELECTRONIC COMMERCE SUITE

iCat Commerce Suite is a powerful software application for creating and delivering dynamic interactive catalogs on the Internet or CD-ROM. It includes the iCat Commerce Publisher and Carbo Server.

The iCat Commerce Publisher includes everything necessary to collect and organize content, design attractive screen layouts, and publish catalogs on the Web. The iCat Carbo Server adds transaction processing capabilities to web servers and can be used to accept, process, and track electronic orders and shopper registrations. Shoppers can register on-line, add products to a personal shopping list, search for specific products in a database and place orders with complete shipping and secure payment information.

iCat CORPORATION

iCat Corporation, based in Seattle, delivers the most complete and affordable Internet commerce solution available today. The company's software has been used on Internet and CD-ROM catalogs by companies including Office Depot, GolfWeb and Edutainment. Boeing and Apple Computer are using the iCat solution to build their corporate Intranets. Internationally, iCat Europe, Ltd. has established sales and marketing operations in UK, France, and Germany; the products are also distributed in Japan by Trans Cosmos International. The privately-held company is dedicated to providing the best software available for companies to create catalogs for the Internet and CD-ROM. For more information, visit the iCat Web site at http://www.icat.com

Tre@SureNET e-COMMERCE SERVICE

The Tre@SureNET Service offers a merchant ready, secure solution for electronic commerce. This service provides a comprehensive, end-to-end solution to meet the growing need of merchants looking to conduct business on the Internet. It is composed of a full-featured Web design/marketing package including several secure Internet payment options, such as CheckFree, CyberCash, FirstVirtual, and Open Market systems. While other Web design/marketing companies may provide secure on-line transactions by supporting SSL (Secure Socket Layer), Tre@SureNET combines a full-featured Web design/marketing package with SSL compliance and automatic, secure credit card transaction processing with these options. Tre@SureNET Service saves merchants time in recording and verifying credit card information and gives merchants extended electronic commerce functionality and full end-to-end transaction processing.

(IBM study suggests that online catalogs on the Internet can save firms up to 25% in processing cost and reduce cycle time by up to 62%; and other research shows that marketing on the web results in 10 times as many units sold as 1/10 the advertising budget.)

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY

The Tre@SureNET e-Commerce Design/Marketing Service will be available from March, 1997. Prices range from $99 to $395 per month for hosting service with a $149 one time initiation fee. e-Catalog Design Service will be accessed based on the service required, but very competitively.