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New PerksXpress enables users of Salesforce CRM to instantly purchase and provide Amazon.com Gift Cards to individuals in any denomination

LOS ANGELES, May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Perks.com, an authorized Amazon.com gift card reseller and the developer of on-demand sales incentive and employee recognition solutions, today announced the introduction of PerksXpress, a real-time electronic gift card distribution application, featuring Amazon.com Gift Cards, available for customers of salesforce.com's CRM application.

PerksXpress allows Salesforce CRM users to purchase Amazon.com Gift Cards directly from PerksXpress for people on their user group list. The gift cards are created individually in virtually any denomination and the claim code is instantly issued through branded e-mails with customized messages. The service offers a quick and secure way to deliver gift cards to targeted recipients, allowing the recipient to start shopping immediately on Amazon.com.

Salesforce users can start using this service today by searching for PerksXpress at http://www.appexchange.com. After accessing the free application users are able to:

• Securely enter a payment method to purchase the gift cards from PerksXpress
• Create a customized email campaign
• Upload single or multiple email addresses
• Select the Amazon.com Gift Card amount
• Begin sending Amazon.com Gift Cards in customized branded emails

"This is a great solution for companies who seek simple, immediate ways to recognize and reward customer loyalty, employee initiative and sales force performance," said Steve Timmerman, vice president of business development with Perks.com. "The service is a simple real-time ordering system that interfaces directly with Salesforce CRM as well as Amazon.com's Gift Codes On Demand service. Driving enhanced adoption of Salesforce CRM is one side benefit of this service as users find new productive ways to use their contact lists."

"The thousands of apps deployed by customers on the Force.com AppExchange clearly demonstrate its incredible momentum as the world's leading cloud computing marketplace," said Kendall Collins, Chief Marketing Officer, salesforce.com. "Now, Salesforce CRM users can quickly and easily deploy PerksXpress to purchase gift cards to use in their sales contests, customer loyalty and employee incentive programs to increase the impact of these initiatives."

"We are pleased that Perks.com has decided to leverage our Amazon Gift Codes On Demand services in this exciting way," said Marcell King, senior manager of corporate gift cards with ACI Gift Cards, Inc. "We designed Amazon Gift Codes On Demand specifically with services like PerksXpress in mind - so that they can easily offer a fast, convenient and secure gift card option to customers."

About Perks.com

Founded in 1998, Los Angeles-based Perks.com provides comprehensive on-demand incentive, recognition and loyalty solutions to drive business performance to the next level. The firm offers a broad range of technology solutions for the large corporation (Perks Enterprise) to the small and medium-sized business (PerksPlus(R)), including sales contests, reward and recognition programs, service awards, referral programs and reward fulfillment services. Perks' solutions allow companies to easily administer their own custom promotions using our proprietary technology. Set-up, communicate, modify, motivate, achieve, reward and fulfill, all through one simple interface. Clients who use Perks.com solutions include industry leaders such as Microsoft, Seagate, ADP and salesforce.com. For more information visit our website at www.perks.com.

About ACI Gift Cards

Amazon.com Gift Cards are issued by ACI Gift Cards, Inc., a Washington company. ACI Gift Cards, Inc. operates the Amazon Corporate Gift Card program which allows companies to purchase Amazon Gift Cards and Gift Codes in bulk for a variety of business uses including incentives, rewards, gifting, promotions and cash alternative disbursements. For more information on the Amazon Corporate Gift Card program, visit www.amazon.com/corporate-gc.

About the Force.com Platform and AppExchange

Force.com is the only proven enterprise platform for building and running business applications in the cloud. The Force.com platform powers the Salesforce CRM applications, more than 800 ISV partner applications like those from CODA and Fujitsu, and more than 100,000 custom applications used by salesforce.com's 55,400 customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE and Sprint Nextel.

Applications built on the Force.com platform can be easily distributed to the entire cloud computing community through the Force.com AppExchange marketplace at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.

SOURCE Perks.com