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 0.02    Sun Mar  6 15:54:24 PST 2011
         - test fixes, documentation updates, otherwise functionally unchanged
 
-0.01    unreleased
+0.01    Fri Nov 24 2006
         - Initial version 
 

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+Copyright (c) 2011 Freeside Internet Services, Inc.
+All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it
+and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
+
+This is Business::OnlinePayment::USAePay, a Business::OnlinePayment backend
+module for USAePay.  It is only useful if you have a merchant account with
+USAePay: http://www.usaepay.com
+
+Business::OnlinePayment is a generic interface for processing payments through
+online credit card processors, online check acceptance houses, etc.  (If you
+like buzzwords, call it an "multiplatform ecommerce-enabling middleware
+solution").