BioPay Announces Age Verification Feature Now Available with Payments

Unique Biometric Service Improves Ability to Screen Sales of Liquor and Tobacco

Herndon, VA — May 17, 2005

BioPay, the nation's leader in biometric transaction processing, announces the availability of an age verification feature as a part of its retail payments solution. The first such offering in the biometric solution landscape, this feature allows convenience stores, grocers, and liquor stores to verify a customer's birth date at enrollment and then automatically approve legal age customers during all future transactions.

"Retailers need to feel more confident that a purchaser's age is being verified consistently and accurately throughout their store or chain," said Tim Robinson, President, BioPay. "With BioPay, a one-time registration of the consumer allows legal-age purchasers to be automatically verified for future age-restricted purchases." By "automating" the age verification process at the register, BioPay's service also saves time for consumers and retailers by speeding up the check out process.

The one-time BioPay enrollment is simple and takes just 2 minutes. When enrolling for BioPay payments, the customer enrolls their finger in the program by presenting: a valid ID and a blank check. The person's finger is scanned and saved securely as 40 unique data points. The customer then selects their personal BioPay number in order to authorize debits from their checking account as well as to verify their age. Once enrolled the customer can "pay with their finger" at any retail location accepting BioPay.

About BioPay

With 1.8 million registered consumers, BioPay's customer adoption proves that the time for biometrics is now. Over 1,000 merchants are using one or more of BioPay's smart, secure methods for processing financial and other transactions requiring identification such as payroll check cashing, loyalty programs, age verification or stored value programs. BioPay's payment service offers merchants a low-cost form of payment and gives consumers a convenient, secure and quick way to pay for purchases. BioPay's patent-pending systems for grocers, convenience stores, gas stations, liquor stores and other retailers have been implemented across the nation. For more information on BioPay and its market-leading products please visit www.biopay.com.