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buySAFE Introduces Modules for Open Source Shopping Carts osCommerce and Cube Cart

buySAFE Introduces Modules for Open Source Shopping Carts osCommerce and Cube Cart

   

Hundreds of Thousands of Merchants Can Add buySAFE to Increase Shopper Confidence, Website Conversion Rates and Revenue

       

ARLINGTON, VA  (May 31, 2007) — buySAFE, Inc. (www.buysafe.com), the leading trust and safety company for e-commerce transactions, today announced the release of modules for open source shopping carts osCommerce (www.oscommerce.com) and Cube Cart (www.cubecart.com) that allow merchants on these platforms to add the buySAFE trust solution to their e-commerce websites.

   

osCommerce and Cube Cart merchants that install the buySAFE module will be able to apply for buySAFE and add it to their websites free of charge. Approved merchants will display the buySAFE Seal, which provides the only explicit, third-party endorsement of a merchant's trustworthiness and reliability. The buySAFE Seal also indicates that the merchant is continually monitored, and that their customers' purchases can be fully guaranteed with a bond from buySAFE and its surety partners Liberty Mutual, Travelers, and ACE USA. Approved merchants can download and install the osCommerce and Cube Cart modules from the buySAFE Developers' Network website.

   

"buySAFE's mission is to make every online transaction trusted, reliable, and virtually risk-free," said Jeff Grass, buySAFE CEO. "With today's announcement we've taken another important step toward achieving that goal by making buySAFE available to the hundreds of thousands of merchants that use osCommerce and Cube Cart for their e-commerce shopping carts."

   

Grass added, "With buySAFE on their sites, these merchants can create greater trust with shoppers, resulting in higher conversion rates, higher repeat visitors, and greater overall sales."

   

To qualify for buySAFE, online merchants must pass the buySAFE certification process, which ensures that they are financially sound, reliable, and committed to delivering on their terms of sale. Merchants that use buySAFE experience higher conversion rates, higher sales, and more frequent repeat shoppers, and also earn additional revenue from any buySAFE bond guarantees their customers purchase. buySAFE is completely free for merchants to use on their websites. Merchants who would like to apply should visit www.buysafe.com.

   

buySAFE has built significant momentum in the e-commerce arena in recent months. In addition to the introduction of modules for osCommerce and Cube Cart, buySAFE also recently announced partnerships with CRE Loaded and 3dCart to make buySAFE available to their customers. Shopping cart providers MIVA Small Business Solutions, Zoovy, and Cart32 have also integrated the buySAFE trust solution into their products. buySAFE also recently announced that several new enterprise customers are using its solution, including leading home improvement etailer Home Décor Products, and DVD Planet, part of Infinity Resources, the third-largest DVD retailer online.

   

About buySAFE
buySAFE, Inc. is an expert at ensuring safe, reliable and virtually risk-free online shopping. buySAFE and its surety partners — Liberty Mutual, Travelers, and ACE USA — certify online merchants to ensure they are trustworthy and reliable, monitor them continuously, and stand behind the certification by guaranteeing a shopper's purchase with a bond, up to $25,000. buySAFE is the only company in the world that provides online merchants with an explicit, third-party endorsement of their reliability and trustworthiness, backed by a bond guarantee.

   

buySAFE has been proven to increase buyer confidence by providing certified merchants with the buySAFE Seal for display on their website and by enabling shoppers to guarantee their purchase with a bond. In so doing, buySAFE also benefits merchants because shoppers are more likely to buy when they have trust and confidence that the merchant will perform as promised. With increased buyer confidence, buySAFE Merchants typically enjoy higher website conversion, more repeat buyers and a better ROI on all their marketing dollars. buySAFE has guaranteed more than 12 million online purchases with a surety bond. buySAFE is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. More information can be found at www.buysafe.com.

   

 

buySAFE Partners With Shopping Cart CRE Loaded to Offer Bonded Trust Solution

buySAFE Partners With Shopping Cart CRE Loaded to Offer Bonded Trust Solution

   

More Than 100,000 CRE Loaded Merchants Can Now Add buySAFE to Increase Shopper Confidence, Website Conversion Rates and Revenue

       

ARLINGTON, VA (May 30, 2007) –buySAFE, Inc. (www.buysafe.com), the leading trust and safety company for e-commerce transactions, today announced that it has partnered with leading open source shopping cart provider CRE Loaded (www.creloaded.com) to make the buySAFE trust solution available to CRE Loaded's merchant base of more than 100,000. Under the terms of the partnership, buySAFE will be available as an embedded module from the CRE Loaded merchant administration dashboard.

   

CRE Loaded merchants that install the buySAFE module will be able to apply for buySAFE and add it to their websites in minutes — free of charge. Approved merchants will display the buySAFE Seal, which provides the only explicit, third-party endorsement of a merchant's trustworthiness and reliability. The buySAFE Seal also indicates that the merchant is continually monitored, and that their customers' purchases can be fully guaranteed with a bond from buySAFE and its surety partners Liberty Mutual, Travelers, and ACE USA.

   

"CRE Loaded is one of the premier open source shopping cart platforms, and we are extremely pleased to make buySAFE available to their merchants," said Jeff Grass, buySAFE CEO. "In more than 12 million transactions, buySAFE has been proven to increase conversion, revenue and sales for online merchants. With today's announcement, tens of thousands of CRE Loaded merchants can experience these benefits for themselves."

   

"We pride ourselves on offering the most powerful open source shopping cart solution available," said Gerald Scott, Head of Business Development at Chain Reaction Ecommerce, makers of CRE Loaded. "By integrating buySAFE into CRE Loaded, we are giving our merchants yet another very powerful weapon in their e-commerce arsenal."

   

To qualify for buySAFE, online merchants must pass the buySAFE certification process, which ensures that they are financially sound, reliable, and committed to delivering on their terms of sale. Merchants that use buySAFE experience higher conversion rates, higher sales, and more frequent repeat shoppers, and also earn additional revenue from any buySAFE bond guarantees their customers purchase. buySAFE is completely free for merchants to use on their websites. Merchants who would like to apply should visit www.buysafe.com.

   

buySAFE has built significant momentum in the e-commerce arena in recent months. In addition to the CRE Loaded partnership, buySAFE recently announced a strategic partnership with Scan Alert/HACKER SAFE, the Internet's most widely used data security trustmark, to bundle the services of each company. buySAFE also recently announced the addition of several new customers, including leading home improvement etailer Home Décor Products, and DVD Planet, part of Infinity Resources, the third-largest DVD retailer online. Shopping cart providers MIVA Small Business Solutions, Zoovy, and Cart32 recently integrated the buySAFE trust solution into their products, and 3dCart has also announced plans to do so shortly.

   

About buySAFE
buySAFE, Inc. is an expert at ensuring safe, reliable and virtually risk-free online shopping. buySAFE and its surety partners — Liberty Mutual, Travelers, and ACE USA — certify online merchants to ensure they are trustworthy and reliable, monitor them continuously, and stand behind the certification by guaranteeing a shopper's purchase with a bond, up to $25,000. buySAFE is the only company in the world that provides online merchants with an explicit third-party endorsement of their reliability and trustworthiness, backed by a bond guarantee.

   

buySAFE has been proven to increase buyer confidence by providing certified merchants with the buySAFE Seal for display on their Website and by enabling shoppers to guarantee their purchase with a bond. In so doing, buySAFE also benefits merchants because shoppers are more likely to buy when they have trust and confidence that the merchant will perform as promised. With increased buyer confidence, buySAFE Merchants typically enjoy higher Website conversion, more repeat buyers and a better ROI on all their marketing dollars. buySAFE has guaranteed more than 12 million online purchases with a surety bond. buySAFE is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. More information can be found at www.buysafe.com.

   

About Chain Reaction Ecommerce and CRE Loaded
Founded in 2001 in response to hosting customer demands, Chain Reaction Ecommerce began development of CRE Loaded; an advanced open source ecommerce shopping cart and web store application. Created with the direct feedback of thousand's of customers and community users, the features and capabilities are grounded in real value and tested in the real world. Chain Reaction Ecommerce has the commitment and resources to support its customers directly and via an active and growing international online support community. With more than 100,000 units in distribution, an aggressive release schedule and numerous industry partnerships Chain Reaction Ecommerce and CRE Loaded will remain at forefront of the online shopping marketplace well into the future. www.creloaded.com media contact: press@creloaded.com

buySAFE and ScanAlert Forge Partnership to Provide Complete Solution for e-Commerce Trust and Safety

buySAFE and ScanAlert Forge Partnership to Provide Complete Solution for e-Commerce Trust and Safety

   

Industry Leaders Combine Forces to Offer Risk-Free Approach to Online Shopping

       

ARLINGTON, VA  (May 29, 2007) – buySAFE, Inc. (www.buysafe.com),  the leading trust and safety company for e-commerce transactions, and ScanAlert (www.scanalert.com), whose HACKER SAFE® service is the Internet's most widely used data security trustmark, today announced a strategic partnership to bundle their respective services. The buySAFE/HACKER SAFE combination enables online merchants to address the two most prominent concerns among online shoppers — merchant non-performance and data security assurance.

   

Under the terms of the partnership, all HACKER SAFE merchants can apply for free use of the buySAFE Certified Merchant program directly from their HACKER SAFE administrative console. Approved merchants can display the buySAFE Seal, which certifies the merchant is trustworthy and reliable, is continually monitored, and that their customers can have their purchases fully guaranteed with a bond from buySAFE and its surety partners Liberty Mutual, Travelers, and ACE USA. The buySAFE Certified Merchant program will also be offered to new HACKER SAFE customers as part of ScanAlert's account activation process. Additionally, Scan Alert's Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) validation services will be offered free, as a bundled feature, to all current and future buySAFE customers.

   

"The HACKER SAFE/buySAFE bundle gives online merchants a very powerful solution to address online trust concerns that continue to slow the growth of e-commerce," said Ken Leonard, CEO, ScanAlert. "While HACKER SAFE increases online sales by certifying merchants to a widely used data security standard, buySAFE increases trust for consumers that merchants will follow-through on the delivery of the product, its authenticity, and terms of sale. The net result is great for both shoppers and sellers."

   

"buySAFE is thrilled to partner with ScanAlert," said Jeff Grass, buySAFE CEO. "Just as Scan Alert is by far the biggest brand in site security certification, buySAFE has affirmed its place as the industry leader in ensuring safe, reliable, and virtually risk-free online transactions. Together, buySAFE and HACKER SAFE give merchants a competitive advantage, creating more confident shoppers and leading to higher conversion rates and sales."

   

To qualify for buySAFE, online merchants must pass the buySAFE certification process, which ensures that they are financially sound, reliable, and committed to delivering on their terms of sale. Merchants that use buySAFE experience higher conversion rates, higher sales, and more frequent repeat shoppers, and also earn additional revenue from any buySAFE bond guarantees their customers purchase. buySAFE is completely free for merchants to use on their Websites. Merchants who would like to apply should visit www.buysafe.com.

   

In recent months, buySAFE has built significant momentum in the e-commerce arena, announcing several new partners and customers, such as leading home improvement etailer Home Décor Products, and DVD Planet, part of Infinity Resources, the third-largest DVD retailer online. buySAFE also recently announced that shopping cart provider Cart32 has integrated the buySAFE trust solution into its suite of e-commerce products, and that cart provider 3dCart will also soon be integrating the buySAFE solution. MIVA Small Business Solutions and Zoovy have also announced that their merchants now have the ability to integrate the buySAFE Seal and bonding services directly via their product platforms.

   

About HACKER SAFE
HACKER SAFE is the world's most recognized assurance of Internet security. Using its patent pending technology, ScanAlert conducts daily security audits to certify clients to the HACKER SAFE standard. Websites meeting the standard can then promote their certified security to site visitors by placing the HACKER SAFE certification trustmark on their sites. As long as the standard is met, ScanAlert continues to serve a date-stamped image from its network to the site.

   

About ScanAlert, Inc.
ScanAlert secures organizations of all sizes against threats to their network infrastructure and then certifies them to the HACKER SAFE standard — the world's Internet security benchmark. Offered as a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, HACKER SAFE certification protects more than 80,000 websites, including well over half of the Internet Retailer Top 500 list of the largest online retailers in the U.S. ScanAlert also operates HACKER SAFE Labs, the industry's only research group focused on e-commerce application security. More information is available at www.scanalert.com.

   

About buySAFE
buySAFE, Inc. is an expert at ensuring safe, reliable and virtually risk-free online shopping. buySAFE and its surety partners — Liberty Mutual, Travelers, and ACE USA — certify online merchants to ensure they are trustworthy and reliable, monitor them continuously, and stand behind the certification by guaranteeing a shopper's purchase with a bond, up to $25,000. buySAFE is the only company in the world that provides online merchants with an explicit, third-party endorsement of their reliability and trustworthiness, backed by a bond guarantee.

   

buySAFE has been proven to increase buyer confidence by providing certified merchants with the buySAFE Seal for display on their Website and by enabling shoppers to guarantee their purchases with a bond. In so doing, buySAFE also benefits merchants because shoppers are more likely to buy when they have trust and confidence that the merchant will perform as promised. With increased buyer confidence, buySAFE Merchants typically enjoy higher website conversion, more repeat buyers and a better ROI on all their marketing dollars. buySAFE has guaranteed more than 12 million online purchases with a surety bond. buySAFE is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. More information can be found at www.buysafe.com.

buySAFE Bonds Its 12 Millionth Online Transaction

buySAFE Bonds Its 12 Millionth Online Transaction

   

From One-Cent Elvis CDs to $700,000 Gems, buySAFE Continues Its Mission to Make Every Transaction Safe, Trustworthy, and Virtually Risk-Free

       

ARLINGTON, VA (May 16, 2007) – buySAFE, Inc. (www.buysafe.com), the leading trust and safety company for e-commerce transactions, today announced that it has reached a major milestone by bonding its 12 millionth online transaction. buySAFE is the only company in the world that provides online merchants with an explicit third-party endorsement of their reliability and trustworthiness, backed by a bond guarantee from leading surety providers Liberty Mutual, Travelers and ACE USA.

   

Customers in a buySAFE bonded transaction receive a surety bond that guarantees that all terms of sale will be met. In the unlikely event that a buySAFE Merchant does not honor its terms of sale, buySAFE will reimburse the customer for the full price of the item purchased, up to $25,000. Merchants that use the buySAFE service and display the buySAFE Seal on their website or listing experience an average conversion lift of 6.8%.

   

"Reaching the 12 million bonded transactions mark is a major milestone, and reaffirms the vital role that buySAFE plays in making online transactions trusted, reliable, and virtually risk free," said Jeff Grass, CEO, buySAFE. "By bonding online transactions, buySAFE makes shopping safer and more enjoyable for consumers and more profitable for online merchants, which creates greater overall efficiency for all of e-commerce."

   

To put this milestone in perspective, the 12 million transactions that buySAFE has bonded are equivalent to the entire population of the state of Ohio. Among these 12 million transactions, buySAFE has bonded transactions as small as one penny (an Elvis compact disc), and as large as $688,000 (a 66 carat Sri Lankan sapphire). The 12 millionth bond issued was for an FM transmitter for an iPod Nano. buySAFE currently bonds a new transaction every seven seconds.

   

buySAFE is available to merchants that sell through their e-commerce Websites, as well as merchants that sell on marketplaces including eBay and Overstock.com. buySAFE has demonstrated significant momentum in the e-commerce arena in recent months with the announcement of several new partners and customers, including leading home improvement etailer Home Decor Products, and DVD Planet — part of Infinity Resources — the third-largest DVD retailer online. buySAFE also recently announced that shopping cart provider 3dCart will soon be integrating the buySAFE solution as well. MIVA Small Business Solutions, Cart32 and Zoovy have also announced that their merchants now have the ability to integrate the buySAFE Seal and bonding services directly via their product platforms. In May 2007, buySAFE introduced the buySAFE Widget, which makes buySAFE available to all e-commerce Websites, regardless of the shopping cart used to process transactions.

   

About buySAFE
buySAFE, Inc. is an expert at ensuring safe, reliable and virtually risk-free online shopping. buySAFE and its surety partners — Liberty Mutual®, Travelers®, and ACE® USA — certify online merchants to ensure they are trustworthy and reliable, monitor them continuously, and stand behind the certification by guaranteeing a shopper's purchase with a bond, up to $25,000. buySAFE is the only company in the world that provides online merchants with an explicit third-party endorsement of their reliability and trustworthiness, backed by a bond guarantee.

   

buySAFE has been proven to increase buyer confidence by providing certified merchants with the buySAFE Seal for display on their Website and by enabling shoppers to guarantee their purchase with a bond. In so doing, buySAFE also benefits merchants because shoppers are more likely to buy when they have trust and confidence that the merchant will perform as promised. With increased buyer confidence, buySAFE Merchants typically enjoy higher Website conversion, more repeat buyers and a better ROI on all their marketing dollars. buySAFE has guaranteed more than 12 million online purchases with a surety bond. buySAFE is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. More information can be found at www.buysafe.com.