Mercantec Teams with Authorize for Payment Gateway

Lightbridge, Inc. (www.lightbridge.com) announced a partnership with Mercantec, Inc.® to integrate Mercantec's PowerCommerce® 2005 to the Authorize.Net Payment Gateway.

As part of the agreement, Mercantec has been certified through Authorize.Net's Shopping Cart Certification Program, which provides that the company's solutions meet Authorize.Net's highest integration, performance and security standards.

"Mercantec is widely recognized as an e-commerce pioneer and leader," said Roy Banks, president, Lightbridge's Authorize.Net Business Unit.  "We are pleased to have them as an Authorize.Net certified shopping cart and look forward to providing their merchants with an industry leading Internet Protocol (IP) transaction processing solutions."

Authorize.Net provides secure, reliable, Internet Protocol (IP) based payment gateway solutions that enable merchants to authorize, settle and manage electronic transactions anytime, anywhere, via Web sites, retail, mail order/telephone order (MOTO) call centers and on wireless devices.

Authorize.Net is sold through an extensive network of reseller partners and leading financial institutions that offer its industry leading payment services to their merchant customers. Authorize.Net is a service of Lightbridge, Inc.

Lightbridge solutions leverage intelligent automated systems and human expertise, delivered primarily through the efficiencies and cost savings of an outsourced business model.