CHICAGO, JANUARY 23, 2007 – Moneris Solutions, one of North America’s largest electronic transaction processors, announced a new partnership with Recreation Sports Management Inc., the creators of www.esportsdeskpro.com, to offer Web-based payments and other services to the company’s athletic leagues, organizations and team clients. The deal continues Moneris’ strategy of building its brand and client base via partnerships with companies seeking a more innovative means to interact with their customers.
esportsdeskpro.com serves amateur sports leagues, teams and associations by hosting and designing their official websites, which includes a sports content management system. With this partnership, esportsdeskpro.com will enable organizations to collect online payments for team and player registrations, fees, fundraising, event ticketing and team merchandise sales.
“esportsdeskpro.com’s mission is to help sports organizations streamline their administration and communicate with teammates and their fans. We are constantly upgrading our sports content management system to ensure that the features of our amateur clients’ websites are at a professional level,” said Harvey Smith, esportsdeskpro.com’s Principal. “Our partnership with Moneris to provide online payments and registration functionality is a tremendous addition to our offering, and our members will be excited to take advantage of this new level of service.”
The partnership with esportsdeskpro.com represents another step in Moneris’ goal of partnering with organizations requiring a more sophisticated level of online payment processing, competitive pricing, and flexibility of processing solutions. A substantial number of the 350,000 merchant locations using Moneris’ payment services are small to mid-sized retailers, which complements esportsdeskpro.com and its legion of teams, athletic associations and tournament event organizers.
“Moneris is very pleased to partner with esportsdeskpro.com to give its members the ability to offer flexible Web payment and registration options and to manage their sports associations online,” said Greg Cohen, president of Moneris Solutions U.S. Group. “We are committed to building the Moneris brand through partnerships with dynamic companies like esportsdeskpro.com, and we look forward to demonstrating that this is a win-win-win situation – a win for Moneris, a win for esportsdeskpro.com and a win for the thousands of community sports teams, associations, leagues and tournament event organizers across the country.”
About Moneris Solutions
Moneris Solutions, Inc. ( www.monerisusa.com) has a 30-year history as one of North America’s largest electronic transaction processors, delivering advanced payment card processing capabilities through point-of-sale hardware, payment processing software, e-commerce solutions and a gift and loyalty program. Moneris provides transaction-processing services nationwide through numerous agent banks and serves the small to medium-sized business market through direct sales and strategic partnerships. A joint investment of the Royal Bank of Canada and the Bank of Montreal, which have assets in excess of $700 billion, Moneris Solutions serves more than 350,000 North American merchant locations and has a staff of over 1,100 employees. Moneris’ U.S. headquarters are located in Buffalo Grove, outside Chicago, IL.
About Recreation Sports Management Inc./esportsdeskpro.com
Recreation Sports Management Inc. (RSM), the founders of www.esportsdesk.com, was formed in 1997 by athletes and for athletes. Through their own experiences playing and administering recreational softball and hockey leagues, RSM’s founders realized the need for an improved method by which team managers, league and association administrators could convey important information quickly and easily. It is on this basic principle that esportsdesk.com was launched more than ten years ago. RSM Inc. is dedicated to creating new developments to facilitate the online management of sport organizations throughout the world and promise to keep our free services at esportsdesk.com in tact as they have been since the company’s inception in 1997.
| Erich Shea 202-296-2002, x115 eshea@environics-usa.com |