XPEDITE LAUNCHES MANAGED INTERNET E-MAIL DIVISION
Market Leader in Fax Distribution Announces MessageREACH^SM and its new management team

EATONTOWN, N.J. (April 11, 2000) -- Xpedite, a global leader in information distribution and a subsidiary of PTEK Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTEK; www.ptek.com), today launched MessageREACH^SM, a new Internet-based enhanced e-mail division. MessageREACH will be led by Xpedite’s current President Max Slifer, who has more than two decades of electronic document distribution industry experience, and Matt McGill, who most recently was with Naviant (www.naviant.com), a precision e-marketing company that marries online data with offline statistics. Slifer and McGill will immediately begin to build a management team of Internet experts for MessageREACH, which can be found on the web at www.messagereach.com.

MessageREACH is an Internet-based e-mail service that provides control, tracking, security, personalization, automated administration and large capacity for high volume e-mail applications. The division was created in response to the increasing demand for e-mail outsourcing services. A recent study by GartnerGroup projects by 2001, the North American market for outsourcing messaging services will grow to $2.56 billion.

"As e-mail volume increases, companies need a partner like MessageREACH for our expertise in delivering e-mail and eMessaging through our robust and highly scalable hosted solutions," said Slifer, President, Xpedite. "Our MessageREACH services give companies a solution that will take the strain off of its IT resources to help them manage the large volumes of e-mail they currently send and receive. In fact, the online direct marketing e-mail business is projected to be more than $5.4 billion by 2003. These new outsourced managed e-mail applications in areas like eMessaging, eMarketing and eCustomer Care will allow our customers, which include 40% of Fortune 500 companies, to maintain control of their e-mail infrastructure while gaining cost savings and increased reliability, functionality and accountability. As the only company with an international infrastructure, we can quickly lead the market with our MessageREACH services to enable our customers to intelligently manage e-mail communications."

Forrester Research projects that by 2001 businesses will receive 25% of all customer contacts and inquiries via e-mail. It’s estimated that the total volume of outsourced e-mail messages will rise from 3 billion in 1998 to more than 250 billion this year. Total e-mail volume is projected to grow to over 25 billion messages a day by 2005.

Xpedite currently is the worldwide market leader for enhanced fax services. MessageREACH expects to leverage their experience and relationships to immediately dominate the enhanced e-mail market. "With more than a decade of experience and sales expertise, Xpedite will remain a leading player in the enhanced messaging marketplace," said Maury Kauffman, managing partner of the Kauffman Group, a fax technology and services analysis firm. "Xpedite’s existing customer base, global sales presence and technological excellence will guarantee them an advantage in the new enhanced e-mail market."

MessageREACH has been developed to initially provide three levels of e-mail distribution services:

• messageREACH delivers multiple attachments and provide extensive reporting.

• messageREACH+ broadcasts text messages containing MessageREACH URLs for each recipient,. linked to a document on the MessageREACH server. When an intended recipient retrieves the document, MessageREACH+ records that action and reports it to the customer.

• messageREACH+ ClickTo distributes messages with unique URLs for each broadcast recipient, but the URL goes to a web site, not a document. MessageREACH ClickTo then provides customers with reports detailing who clicked on the URL’s, offering the ability to track exactly who visits the customer’s web site, and when.