Bottomline Technologies' Create!form Named to KMWorld Magazine's "Trend-Setting Products of 2005"

PORTSMOUTH, NH – August 30, 2005 – Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ: EPAY - News), a leading provider of payments and invoice automation software and services, today announced the company's Create!form product suite has been named to the list of KMWorld Magazine's "Trend-Setting Products of 2005."

"We believe that this list best exemplifies the spirit of innovation that has come to define knowledge management," said Hugh McKellar, Editor-in-Chief of KMWorld. "Bottomline Technologies' Create!form family of products is enabling businesses to move beyond simple document output management and into broader, end-to-end financial process automation."

More than 200 vendors, whose offerings combined represented 1,200 products, were considered for the list this year. Input was gathered from multiple sources including the publication's editorial staff, the IT analyst community and end users who evaluated each product for flexibility, usability, adoption rate and total cost of ownership.

Bottomline's Create!form product suite works in conjunction with major ERP and accounting systems to provide advanced electronic document output, distribution, archive and transaction capabilities.

"The day-to-day nuances of conducting business electronically are forcing many organizations to address the limitations of existing back-office systems for executing document-based financial transactions and complex payments," said Chip Martin, Vice President of Product Management, Bottomline Technologies. "We are pleased to receive this recognition and remain committed to developing innovative solutions capable of extending those back-office systems and enabling organizations to create more efficient financial processes."

About KMWorld Magazine
The leading information provider serving the Knowledge Management systems market, KMWorld (with a focus on Content, Document and Knowledge Management) informs more than 51,000 subscribers about the components and processes - and subsequent success stories – that together offer solutions for improving business performance.

About Bottomline Technologies
Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ: EPAY) provides cloud-based payment, invoice and banking solutions to corporations, financial institutions and banks around the world. The company’s solutions are used to streamline, automate and manage processes involving payments, invoicing, global cash management, supply chain finance and transactional documents. Organizations trust these solutions to meet their needs for cost reduction, competitive differentiation and optimization of working capital. Headquartered in the United States, Bottomline also maintains offices in Europe and Asia-Pacific. For more information, visit www.bottomline.com.