Accounts Payable Utility Bill Payment Services

St. Paul, Minn.- July 9, 2009 - API Outsourcing, Inc. (API - www.apifao.com), a leading provider of finance and accounting outsourcing services (FAO), and NorthWrite, Inc., a leading provider of energy management services, have announced a strategic alliance to deliver an integrated utility bill payment service to its respective customers. This will be an important addition to API’s innovative and flexible Accounts Payable Services. Customers will now be able to monitor energy usage across multiple locations and compare against a previous period, an EnergyStar benchmark building, or against their energy spend budget. Not only can the API and NorthWrite solution address monthly usage comparisons, customers can elect to do 15 minute interval usage monitoring for near real-time insights.

“API is excited to introduce NorthWrite as a partner to assist our customers in improving efficiencies as it relates to energy or utility bills. Our customers will now have the option to generate utility usage reports to identify abnormal usage and proactively reduce energy usage,” stated Gary Halleen, President and CEO of API Outsourcing.

“We see this as combining two best-of-breed solutions, energy management and bill payment services,” said Terrence McManus, Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of NorthWrite, Inc., “which means customers are getting an excellent, world-class solution to address their critical energy spend challenge.”