asknet Augments Global eCommerce Platform with Payment Option “MULTIBANCO” for Sales in Portugal

Karlsruhe, San Francisco – August 24, 2011 - asknet, a leading provider of global eCommerce solutions that increase sales and expand markets for software and digital media companies, announced today that it has added MULTIBANCO as a payment option to support its customers’ sales in Portugal. With 30 percent market share of the country’s online sales, MULTIBANCO is a must-have for businesses expanding their eCommerce presence in this market.  

MULTIBANCO, operated by Sociedade Interbancaria de Serviços S.A.(SIBS) offers diverse payment functionalities: If a customer wants to pay his online order via MULTIBANCO, he receives a payment reference identifying the specific transaction. The customer then processes the payment at any ATM supporting MULTIBANCO and the product is automatically delivered after the transaction was successful. Therefore the online shop provider is widely protected against fraud.

MULTIBANCO plays a major role in the Portuguese market because of its widespread acceptance and convenience of more than 10,000 ATMs. Furthermore, the MULTIBANCO card can be used in more than 95% of shops and restaurants, payphones, road tolls etc, and covers the entire country and its banks.

Think global – act local
asknet’s global eCommerce platform enables businesses to develop localized e-shops using different combinations of shop languages, billing currencies, payment options and customer service languages.  
Best practices show that adapting eCommerce shopping carts and payment processes to regional habits increase sales. With the flexible and scalable asknet eCommerce platform, global eCommerce can be deployed within a short timeframe, to generate sales from virtually all countries in the world.

About asknet:
asknet offers its clients customized outsourcing solutions for global software sales via the Internet. Founded in 1995 as a spin-off of the Karlsruhe Institute
of Technology (KIT, formerly the University of Karlsruhe), the company has become a leading independent global provider for electronic software distribution. In addition to its fully integrated shop solutions for software publishers, the company develops and maintains portals for software distribution such as softwarehouse.de, one of Europe's largest platform for downloads of standard software. In 2010, asknet posted sales of approximately EUR 72.7 million. asknet´s clients include numerous providers of specialty software such as F-Secure, IS3, Nero, NetObjects, Norman, and Panda Security. The company also supplies software products to around eighty percent of German universities.

 

Press Contact
asknet AG      
Martina Oerther
Phone: +49/721/96458-6369
eMail: martina.oerther@asknet.de

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