AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS - ChronoPay B.V., the leading European Internet Payment Service Provider, announced today that it has entered into a Strategic Partnership with Smilehouse, a premier e-commerce solution provider in Finland. ChronoPay will add Smilehouse software applications to its already impressive variety of payment processing solutions, making them available to their European merchants.

Smilehouse has developed a variety of applications including Smilehouse "Workspace Enterprise", which is their easy-to-use packaged software for integrated e-commerce solutions. Workspace Enterprise includes all the features required to build and run professional business-to-consumer and business-to-business Webshops. The software boasts out-of-the-box functionality, easy integrations to back end systems and platform independence, enabling rapid and cost-effective deployment of e-commerce solutions. Workspace Enterprise is meant to be used as a platform, to support Web operations whose customers are in different target areas and which are offered different order and delivery processes.

"Workspace Standard" is easy to implement, offers system reliability and extensive features, as well as the ability to be integrated with the company's existing information systems. Standard, which can easily expand to Workspace Enterprise, is particularly well suited for ChronoPay's small merchants, as well as its Webshops which operate internationally.

"Workspace Small Business Edition" offers versatile features and is economically priced, making it an excellent choice for new e-commerce operations. It is reliable out-of-the-box software that has been designed to replace home-made solutions and PHP scripts. It uses the same technology as other Workspace products, so as the Webshop matures, the application can be easily expanded.

"Our development efforts are focussed on adding new relevant e-commerce features. Because of that, the strategic partnership with the top-class Payment Service Provider ChronoPay helps us to enhance our solutions as being offered to our clients." said Tapio Talvisalo, who is responsible for marketing and strategic partnerships at Smilehouse.

"With its line of Workspace applications Smilehouse offers complete e-commerce solutions for not only e-business start-ups and the SME sector, but also for larger corporations who would like to expand their current offline activities onto the Internet", said Ido Schiferli, marketing manager EU at ChronoPay. "When combined with our secure, multi-currency processing solutions Smilehouse's e-commerce software is perfectly suited for any of our European merchants."