he initial roll out is for Sage business partners, but the application involved does not have to be an accounting program. It can be any business application such as e-commerce or e-invoicing in which integrated payments would be a benefit to customers. The system utilizes Sage Exchange.com, a portal that sits on top of the Sage Exchange platform and which enables customers to establish and make payments. Sage says it is designed so software vendors “can be in the PCI Free Zone, which removes the solution from the scope of PCI PA-DSS, once they integrate to Sage Exchange.”