QI Systems Introduces SmartStart Software Development Kit VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- QI Systems, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: QIIIF) (TSX Venture Exchange: QII.U), the industry leader in smart card solutions, is pleased to announce the introduction of a series of software development tools (SmartStart Development Kit) designed to facilitate customer development of applications to run on the QI SmartKit line of payment terminals. The SmartStart Development Kit is expected to broaden the company's international marketing opportunities for the SmartKit product line. The components that comprise the SmartStart Development Kit have been tested and used internally by QI Systems for over four years. The company has elected to make this product available at this time because of the growing number of requests for smartcard development assistance being received. QI will continue to offer complete turnkey integration of smartcard purse schemes with our products. However, for those customers having software development resources in house and preferring to develop full support for their purse schemes, QI will provide tools and support that will allow them to develop and expand Unattended Point of Sale (UPOS) applications for their card schemes. The SmartStart Development Kit will allow customers to add support for purse and loyalty schemes to the QI Systems' SmartKit terminals. SmartKit is an ideal platform for customer development of such applications because of the product's ability to concurrently support multiple card schemes, as well as allowing purse providers to concurrently support multiple loyalty platforms in conjunction with the purse. QI Systems Inc. (http://www.qisystems.ca/) designs hardware and software for the rapidly expanding smart card industry. The company is a world leader in supplying top-to-bottom solutions for smart card applications in a wide variety of industries. QI Systems, Inc. has a high level of expertise in delivering stored value solutions for specialized needs. The TSX Venture Exchange does not accept responsibility for the adequacy of this news release and has not investigated the validity of these claims. Approved on behalf of the Board Steven R. Garman President & CEO QI Systems Inc. CONTACT: Steven R. Garman, President & CEO TEL: 604-248-2301 FAX: 604-248-2306 INTERNET: http://www.qisystems.ca/ This release was issued through eReleases(TM). For more information, visit http://www.ereleases.com/. DATASOURCE: QI Systems Inc. CONTACT: Steven R. Garman, President & CEO of QI Systems, +1-604-248-2301, or fax, +1-604-248-2306 Web site: http://www.qisystems.ca/

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