AC Lens Introduces Partner-Branded Online Contact Lens Platform and Vision Benefit Assignment

    /24-7PressRelease.com/ - Columbus, OH - March 11, 2005 - AC Lens, a leading online contact lens retailer, has announced a new service whereby retailers and vision benefit providers can offer a custom-branded service for patients seeking to order contact lenses online. Partner organizations are given a customized web-site using the AC Lens e-commerce platform, together with branded customer-service and fulfillment. The AC Lens program also allows eligible members to apply available vision benefits to their online purchases. This advance in online contact lens order processing is new to the Internet, and AC Lens (http://www.aclens.com/) is leading the way.

AC Lens has already established itself as a leading online contact lens retailer focusing on the customer experience and low prices. AC Lens has been selling contact lenses online since 1996. AC Lens has developed technology in-house that gives them the exclusive ability to work directly with healthcare providers and practices wishing to practices wishing to provide the additional benefit of online contact lens purchases to their members with assignment of available benefits. The program is already being successfully utilized by a major retailer and several vision insurers. This innovation benefits the consumer, the insurance provider, and AC Lens.

AC Lens now has the ability to build branded websites for healthcare providers, and include a shopping cart that will deduct the total benefit amount for the member, from the total, and then either prompt for further payment, or finish the order. The back-end functionality allows customer service representatives to authorize the benefits, and finalize and ship the order.

AC Lens is an online contact lens and contact lens accessory retailer and sells brand name contacts, reading glasses, and vitamins and eyedrops, directly to consumers via its website at http://www.aclens.com/. Operating from a custom-designed call-center and warehouse facility in Hilliard, Ohio, the company has been selling contact lenses online since 1996 and has established a reputation as an on-line leader in service, convenience, and discount prices for consumers. Visit AC Lens on the web at http://www.aclens.com/.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Brian Frank
Marketing Coordinator
AC Lens
phone: 614-921-2558
fax: 614-921-9866
http://www.aclens.com/

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