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Travis Announces "TravisHosting" Service for TravisFlex Internet Access Module

Houston, TX - October 18, 2005 -- Travis Software Corp., a market leader providing Advanced Employee Benefits Software, announces "TravisHosting" Service for TravisFlex Internet Access Module.

At Travis, we're excited about the recent changes to the systems which allow our TravisFlex users to offer the ability for their clients and employees to have access to account status information, enroll online and even enter claims online, via the Internet. We would like to tell you about those changes, and about new reduced pricing on the Internet module that is part of the TravisFlex product family.

We're also now offering a new "TravisHosting" Service, through which Travis Software takes over the responsibility of implementing and operating the Internet system for you. Travis Hosting is a web-hosting service designed specifically for the TravisCobra Internet Access Module and the TravisFlex Internet Access Module and can be customized and branded by your webmaster to match your current website.

Here is a summary of the offers and changes:

TravisFlex Internet Access Module
First, we've changed the name of the system formerly known as "TravisFlex/Web," which has been available since 2001, to the "TravisFlex Internet Access Module" or TFIAM. By using TFIAM, you are able to:

  1. Offer your employer/clients the ability to check the status of any of their employees' flexible benefit accounts via the Internet,
  2. Offer your clients' employees the ability to view the status of any of their accounts at any time, saving you the need to answer those inquiries over the telephone.
  3. Allow employees to enroll and even enter claims via the Web The Web claim entry feature is particularly well received by employees.

Also, we are making some important additions and improvements to TFIAM this year, giving the system a new look and adding functionality, including:

  1. The ability for Employers to login and add employees, view employee, upload forms and documents and more!
  2. Employees able to change personal information, elect direct deposit, and decide if they want emailed EOBs
  3. The use of CSS to modify the look of the website

TFIAM is supported by the TravisSupport team, just like TravisFlex, so through your subscription to the TFIAM Support and Update Plan whenever your staff has questions about how to best use the Web system you call or email TravisSupport just as you do now. And each time a new version of TravisFlex is released, we also release a new version of TFIAM, adding new features to that system as well. So TFIAM's set of features continues to expand, just as with TravisFlex itself.

TravisHosting
TFIAM installs as part of your organization's website. It becomes a "sub-page" of your site. Not everyone knows that the actual system doesn't need to be installed at the same place where your website is installed. For example, your website can be installed (hosted) on computers in your office, but a sub-page (such as a copy of TFIAM) can be installed on another Internet server, connected to your homepage by a simple "link." Or, your website might be hosted on a local Internet Service Provider (ISP) in your home town and the sub-page could be located on an Internet server at another ISP or hosting service in another state or another country!

Finding an ISP to host your copy of TFIAM can sometimes be difficult -not all ISPs will agree to host a system that includes a database. Also, some ISPs adjust the settings on their Internet servers frequently, which can cause the Internet module to not be available temporarily or dependably.

As a result, Travis now offers, effective November 1, 2005, TravisHosting, a service that provides you a secure, dependable environment for your copy of TFIAM, managed by the company that developed the software.

As a TravisHosting customer

  1. We implement your copy of TFIAM on our Internet servers
  2. We link your copy of TFIAM to your website, and maintain the link so that the system is consistently "up" for access by your clients and Employees
  3. You pay a small monthly fee for hosting your copy of TFIAM
  4. You have the option of paying for support and updates on your copy of TFIAM monthly rather than annually, as you're paying for the hosting. For example, TravisHosting typically costs $75/month. When support for TFIAM is also paid monthly, the total fee is $195 per month for hosting, support and updates of your copy of TFIAM.

New Lower Pricing on TFIAM
If you're going to use TravisHosting, you first need to license your copy of TFIAM. And to help you do that, we have reduced the price of TFIAM through the end of 2005 for those who also sign up for TravisHosting at the same time the system is licensed. The new pricing is $1,995 (a reduction of 50%) if the system is licensed by November 30, 2005, and $2,500 (a 33% reduction) if the system is licensed during December!

What Should You Do?
If you don't use TFIAM or TravisFlex/Web now and would like to explore what the system can do for you, please call TravisMarketing so we can demonstrate the "live" TFIAM system to you and answer any questions you have about how having a Web capability working with your copy of TravisFlex could help you, your customers and their employees, and make you more competitive in the marketplace as you compete for new Flexibl