Digital River Enhances Its Element 5 Global E-Commerce Solution

Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), a leading provider of global e-commerce solutions, announced it has enhanced its element 5^® e-commerce solution. In addition to offering online merchants more in-depth reporting and comprehensive, new subscription management capabilities, the e-commerce solution now includes a more advanced control panel for even easier management and marketing of their global online businesses.

"Our latest enhancements to element 5 are designed to provide our clients an even better user experience, giving them greater flexibility and more advanced tools for increasing their productivity and ultimately online revenue,” said Joel Ronning, Digital River’s CEO. "element 5 provides clients hands-on control over growing their online businesses while we host the site and help manage the risks related to compliance, fraud prevention, global payments and tax, and other complex e-commerce operations.”

Digital River’s recently enhanced element 5 solution features:

• Extensive, new subscription management capabilities, including trial acquisition, subscription extensions, reporting, and automated, adjustable pricing, to help merchants generate revenue from their product lines in new ways;
• A comprehensive, flexible reporting toolkit so companies can quickly and accurately make real-time decisions about their online businesses, schedule recurring reporting requests, interact with their data, and access new reports for subscription tracking; and
• A more advanced control panel that includes convenient access to the reporting toolkit and subscription capabilities.

To support online merchants in their efforts to expand into global markets and accelerate e-sales, element 5 also supports a wide range of international languages, currencies and payment methods. In addition, it provides access to an extensive range of e-marketing services and a powerful, multi-tier reseller and affiliate channel. Digital River’s element 5 solution is Sarbanes Oxley compliant and has built-in global tax, denied parties and fraud screening tools.

About Digital River, Inc.

Digital River, Inc., a leading provider of global e-commerce solutions, builds and manages online businesses for software and game publishers, consumer electronics manufacturers, distributors, online retailers and affiliates. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The company’s comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud management, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services.

Founded in 1994, Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices across the U.S. as well as Brazil, China, England, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg and Taiwan. For more details about Digital River, visit the corporate Web site at www.digitalriver.com or call 952-253-1234.

Digital River and element 5 are registered trademarks of Digital River, Inc. or its affiliates. All other company and product names are trademarks, registrations or copyrights of their respective owners.