Swiftpage, the maker of Act!, and a leading provider of software and services that help small businesses grow, announced today the newly formed partnership with ePages at HostingCon Europe in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, ePages is the No. 1 international online shop software provider specializing in the SMB market. ePages offers high-performance e-commerce solutions to online merchants that allow them to create professional looking online shops with all of the technical updates and security handled for them.

ePages will be featuring Act! Essentials in five languages (German, English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese) on their App & Theme Store, allowing its more than 140,000 active merchants in more than 70 countries to extend ePages online stores with the best of contact management and e-marketing functionality to optimize SMB processes.

Act! Essentials is a simple, cost-effective solution that helps users consolidate and manage contacts, activities, notes and history, and allows them to connect with prospects and customers in one organized place, accessible from anywhere to grow their businesses.

“Partnering with ePages enables us to expand our geographic footprint and connect with an entirely new market of customers,” said Bob Ogdon, founder and chairman at Swiftpage. “We’re thrilled to be able to offer their customers a solution that suits their business’s needs, is cost-effective, and accessible from desktops, laptops, tablets and many mobile devices – ideal for online merchants.”

“As a global provider of online shop software for SMBs in more than 70 countries, we are excited about this relationship with Swiftpage. It allows us to offer our merchants a contact management solution that will help them keep their customers and prospects organized, allow them to send targeted outreach, and track the results,” said Wilfried Beeck, CEO at ePages.