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CheckFree Health & Fitness Introduces CheckFree Schedule Manager at Club Industry 2004 -- CheckFree Schedule Manager, in Conjunction with RCM Solutions, Provides Comprehensive Reservation and Club Management Suite -- ATLANTA and CHICAGO, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Club Industry 2004 Booth #1255 -- CheckFree Health & Fitness, a business unit of CheckFree Corporation (NASDAQ:CKFR), today announced the introduction of CheckFree Schedule Manager, an Internet-based reservation system for health clubs of any size at Club Industry's 2004 annual conference in Chicago. CheckFree Schedule Manager integrates with RCM Solutions, CheckFree's complete club management system, enabling clubs to streamline the scheduling and managing of their resources and facilities. Health clubs using CheckFree Schedule Manager can allow members and non- members to schedule appointments online in real-time. Additionally, they can easily and securely pay for those appointments either online via credit card or at the club upon check in. As customers increasingly use the self- reservation system, phone calls to employees are greatly reduced, enabling them to better service health club members on-site. The system can be used by employees to make reservations on behalf of members and non-members as well as enable them to manage their availability, eliminating duplicate location or staff reservations. "Health clubs require scheduling solutions that enable staff to quickly and easily access a variety of member information. They need a unified service that facilitates all run-rate operations including scheduling, reservation check-in, billing and accounting," said Matt McKernan, vice president and general manager of CheckFree's Health & Fitness business unit. "The combination of CheckFree Schedule Manager and RCM Solutions gives clubs the most comprehensive product suite to meet their operational needs." CheckFree Schedule Manager is easy-to-use and can easily be customized for the unique business rules of individual clubs. Reservations can be tailored based on a particular location, specific staff member, or combination of the two. Administrators can also define any service they want to enable online from tennis courts and swimming lessons to massage and tanning sessions. CheckFree Schedule Manager provides the following benefits: - Tight Integration with Club Management Solution-CheckFree Schedule Manager is designed to work closely with RCM Solutions providing a complete management and reservation system. - Two-Way Communication-Advanced messaging technology enables two-way communication between Schedule Manager and RCM Solutions to ensure the most up-to-date information is available to the club and its members. - Scalability-CheckFree Schedule Manager is designed to work at the smallest clubs as well as large clubs with multiple site locations. - Hosted by CheckFree-CheckFree Schedule Manager is hosted by the same electronic center used to process online bill payments for more than 14 million customers since 1981. While RCM Solutions requires a simple software download and installation, clubs only need to set up an interface with CheckFree to operate CheckFree Schedule Manager. CheckFree Schedule Manager will be available in spring 2005. For more information on pricing and availability, call 800-242-9522, visit us at Booth #1255 at Club Industry 2004 (Oct. 14-16, 2004), or visit our Web site at http://www.rcmsolutions.com/ . About CheckFree Health & Fitness CheckFree Health & Fitness, a business unit of CheckFree Corporation, has delivered targeted applications designed to meet the operational, financial and membership needs of the health and fitness industry since 1981. The unit is the single source for improving cash flow, expediting financials, and managing membership contracts and reservations. CheckFree Health & Fitness' complete suite of solutions enables clubs to grow and retain membership while helping to minimize day-to-day costs. About CheckFree ( http://www.checkfreecorp.com/ ) Founded in 1981, CheckFree Corporation provides financial electronic commerce services and products to organizations around the world. CheckFree Electronic Commerce solutions enable thousands of financial services providers and billers to offer their customers the convenience of receiving and paying their household bills online or in person through retail outlets. CheckFree Investment Services provides a broad range of investment management solutions and outsourced services to thousands of financial services organizations, which manage more than $900 billion in assets. CheckFree Software develops, markets and supports software applications that are used by financial institutions to process more than two-thirds of the 10 billion Automated Clearing House transactions in the United States. The division also provides global trade processing, reconciliation, financial messaging, compliance and electronic billing and statement software to hundreds of organizations across the globe. Certain of CheckFree's statements in this press release are not purely historical, and as such are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These include statements regarding management's intentions, plans, beliefs, expectations or projections of the future. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including without limitation, the various risks inherent in CheckFree's business, and other risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in CheckFree's periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including CheckFree's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2004 (filed September 3, 2004). One or more of these factors have affected, and could in the future affect CheckFree's business and financial results in future periods, and could cause actual results to differ materially from plans and projections. There can be no assurance that the forward-looking statements made in this press release will prove to be accurate, and issuance of such forward-looking statements should not be regarded as a representation by CheckFree, or any other person, that the objectives and plans of CheckFree will be achieved. All forward-looking statements made in this press release are based on information presently available to management, and CheckFree assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. DATASOURCE: CheckFree Corporation CONTACT: Media, Judy DeRango Wicks, +1-678-375-1595, or , or Investors, Tina Moore, +1-678-375-1278, or , both of CheckFree Corporation Web site: http://www.checkfreecorp.com/ http://www.rcmsolutions.com/

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