Kintera Connect Partner Creates E-Commerce Integration

Solid Cactus Integration Now Available to Kintera Clients

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kintera® Inc. (NASDAQ:KNTA - News) today announced that Kintera Connect partner Solid Cactus®, an award-winning Web design company and total solutions e-commerce provider, has created an integration between Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Stores and Kintera’s donor management solution. The integration enables nonprofits using both applications to get a more comprehensive view of donors and their e-commerce purchases.

The integration, which was created using Kintera Connect, the company’s open application integration platform, records purchases made in Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Stores and pushes the data into Kintera’s donor management solution. Nonprofit organizations using Kintera’s donor management will now be able to record Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Store purchases as an activity enabling nonprofits to store more donor data in a single place.

“Because many organizations have a separate system for e-commerce and donor management they can miss important donor information,” said Scott Sanfilippo, President Solid Cactus. “This integration makes it possible for organizations to discover supporters that have purchased through the Yahoo! Merchant Solution Stores e-commerce system. More importantly though, it transfers purchase data to Kintera’s powerful donor management solution, where nonprofits can learn how constituents are interacting with the organization and potentially discover new donors.”

Kintera Connect is the company’s open application integration platform and enables clients and partners to integrate third party solutions with Kintera technology. Kintera’s platform of software solutions includes donor management, donor engagement, advocacy, wealth screening, and accounting solutions. The company is the only software as a service provider in the nonprofit industry to offer this comprehensive suite of solutions.

Additionally, Kintera’s multi-tenant architecture enables all clients and applications to share one centrally maintained common infrastructure and code base. The multi-tenant architecture creates a distinct boundary between Kintera’s open platform and the applications that run on it. Because Kintera also provides consistent application programming interfaces (APIs), partners can develop an integrated application once and offer it repeatedly to other clients.

“The availability of the Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Stores integration demonstrates the usability of our Kintera Connect platform and APIs,” said Steve Johnson, vice president of channels for Kintera. “Because we are partnering with application providers in both the nonprofit and enterprise sectors, we will continue to see more and more integrations become available. The development community and particularly those in the Kintera Connect partner program are able to quickly build applications to provide a catalog of best of breed solutions.”

For more information on Kintera and a list of Kintera Connect partners, please visit www.kintera.com/kinteraconnect. For more information on Solid Cactus, please visit www.solidcactus.com.

About Kintera, Inc.

Kintera®, Inc. (NASDAQ:KNTA - News) provides software as a service to help organizations quickly and easily reach more people, raise more money and run more efficiently. The Kintera Sphere® technology platform empowers The Giving Experience™, and features a social constituent relationship management (CRM) system, enabling donor management, e-mail and communications, Web sites, events, advocacy programs, wealth screening and accounting. In addition, the Kintera Connect™ open platform enables clients and partners to integrate directly with Kintera technology, resulting in the availability of best of breed solutions through the Kintera Connect partner program.

For more information about Kintera’s software and services, visit www.kintera.com.

Kintera, Kintera Sphere, Kintera Connect, and The Giving Experience, are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Kintera, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

About Solid Cactus, Inc.

Solid Cactus, Inc., headquartered in Wilkes-Barre, PA, has designed or redesigned more than 3,000 e-commerce sites. Solid Cactus is an Inc. 500 company and was named one of the “Best Places to Work in Pennsylvania” in 2006 and 2007. The company serves a growing base of medium to large size clients with a full array of web design and e-commerce solutions including: Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Management, Affiliate Program Management, Call Center Services, Back-End Order Management, Print Design and consulting. For Solid Cactus information visit http://www.solidcactus.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

In addition to historical information, this press release contains forward-looking statements (including, without limitation, express or implied statements regarding the adoption of software solutions by nonprofit organizations) that involve risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements represent our estimates and assumptions only as of the date hereof. These statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are based on assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation: our limited operating history; our history of losses; our dependence on increased acceptance by nonprofit organizations of online fundraising; lengthy sales cycles for major customers; our need to manage growth; risks associated with accounting for and processing large amounts of donations; the rapidly changing technologies and market demands; and other risks identified in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.

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