Bottomline Launches New Tools for Legal Spend Management Reporting and Analysis

Legal eXchange® Reporting Suite Delivers Greater Visibility and Analytics

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – March 09, 2010 –

Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ: EPAY), a leading provider of collaborative payment, invoice and document automation solutions, today announced the availability of powerful new reporting tools: Analyzer and SmartReports. These integrated solutions allow Legal eXchange users to strategically analyze their legal spend and law firm performance.

Legal eXchange Analyzer and Legal eXchange SmartReports provide users with powerful tools for lowering the total cost of case outcomes. They allow users to quickly identify case cost drivers, review information at a granular level, and leverage their data into better strategic decisions. These new tools, coupled with the unique auditing functionality available through Legal eXchange Explorer create a comprehensive reporting suite for the entire lifecycle of a matter.

“We listened to our clients requests for analytical tools and developed a new approach that couples simple, intuitive reports in SmartReports, with Analyzer’s ad-hoc reporting capabilities. Together, they give our clients the key to unlocking the information within their legal spend data,” said Tom Gaillard, senior vice president and general manager of Bottomline Technologies. “With Legal eXchange, our clients gain immediate efficiency gains through automating legal invoice receipt and workflow and can leverage historical data to secure the most desirable case outcomes.”

By using Legal eXchange Analyzer and Legal eXchange SmartReports, organizations can now pursue a best practice approach to legal spend management:

· Better manage matters, budgets and law firm performance with a core library of standard reports;

· Benchmark internal and external performance through customizable transactional and analytical reports;

· Create configurable reports that incorporate custom fields to reflect unique business requirements; and

· Improve strategic decision making by analyzing an aggregated view of key matter metrics.

Legal eXchange is the legal spend management platform of choice for 60,000 users and a growing network of more than 6,000 law firms. Corporate legal and insurance claims departments trust Legal eXchange to increase process efficiencies, strengthen collaboration with outside counsel, and improve case handling strategies.

About Bottomline Technologies
Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ: EPAY) provides collaborative payment, invoice and document automation solutions to corporations, financial institutions and banks around the world. The company’s solutions are used to streamline, automate and manage processes involving payments, invoicing, global cash management, supply chain finance and transactional documents. Organizations trust these solutions to meet their needs for cost reduction, competitive differentiation and optimization of working capital. Headquartered in the United States, Bottomline also maintains offices in Europe and Asia-Pacific. For more information, visit www.bottomline.com.

Bottomline Technologies, Legal eXchange and the BT logo are trademarks of Bottomline Technologies (de), Inc. which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other brand/product names are trademarks of their respective holders.

Cautionary Language

This press release may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are competition, market demand, technological change, strategic relationships, recent acquisitions, international operations and general economic conditions. For additional discussion of factors that could impact Bottomline Technologies' financial results, refer to the Company's Form 10-K filed February 2010 and any recently filed Form 8-Ks. Any forward-looking statements represent our views only as of today and should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any subsequent date. We do not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

Company Contact:
Alana Burns
Bottomline Technologies
603-501-6601
aburns@bottomline.com