Imagine a self-service financial terminal with international ATM and wire-transfer capabilities that allows customers to purchase these services with cash. You're not imagining it. AmStar Systems, Inc. created the eca$hier CS/Multi-function Financial Center, an unattended financial terminal that combines the capability of a Pentium IV PC-based ATM, electronic vending machine and a smart financial kiosk into one unit.

AmStar Systems partnered with EFT DataLink, Inc., an AmStar affiliate, and Travelex Worldwide Money Ltd. (TWML), a wholly owned subsidiary of Travelex plc, to provide a better way to transfer money. EFT DataLink is the network-certified payment processor for the eca$hier, and TWML supplies its Internet-based money transfer and foreign-exchange calculation services. Customers can wire funds to more than 130 different foreign countries. The eca$hier accepts 32 foreign currencies and calculates conversion rates on transfers.

Providing a self-service alternative to current wire-transfer methods, the eca$hier captures bankcard, cash and stored-value products.

The eca$hier will accept cash to complete transactions such as ATM cash, money orders, wire funds transfers within the U.S. and from the U.S. to Mexico, payroll check cashing, gift certificates, prepaid debit cards, prepaid Internet and local telephone service, long-distance calling cards, postage stamps, movie and transit tickets, and utility bill payments.

What does this mean for ISOs? The enhanced functionality of the eca$hier provides additional revenue sources from a single location.

Another benefit: Soon customers no longer will have to wait in line or leave the airport to transfer money. The eca$hier is scheduled for release to airports in North and South America by September 2002.

AmStar Systems, Inc. 2015 Midway Road Suite 111 Carrollton, TX 75006 972-726-8800 www.amstarsystems.com