RICHMOND, CA/PRINCETON, N.J. – October 16, 2003 – QRS Corporation, a leading provider of collaborative commerce solutions for the retail industry, and UCCnet, a not-for-profit organization that provides product registry and data synchronization services, announced today that QRS, a preferred UCCnet Alliance partner, has completed communication certification of its QRS Catalogue™.

The UCCnet Alliance Partner program enables alliance partners to provide integrated collaborative commerce solutions to the expanding UCCnet community. The program certifies partners to provide best-in-class knowledge, resources and tools that enable UCCnet subscribers to implement product registry and data synchronization quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively.

"QRS has a long history of providing electronic services to the global retail trading community, and has consistently supported and led global standards initiatives," said Renee d'Ouville, Vice President, Product Strategy for QRS. "The manufacturers we serve sell to a broad range of retailers with diverse requirements – the end game is for QRS customers to use the UCCnet GLOBALregistry® services as an additional QRS service. We are committed to ensuring that our customers' product information is accessible to the global community."

QRS is certified for the UCCnet Communication Solution using the EDIINT AS2 protocol meaning QRS is able to exchange messages via an AS2 connection. This capability is the first step to becoming fully certified with UCCnet.

To alleviate costly errors, QRS enables product information synchronization between trading partners and UCCnet services enable registration and synchronization of product information, such as weight and dimensions, with a repository for standardized item, location and trading partner data. Suppliers load item, location and trading partner information into the UCCnet GLOBALregistry services. UCCnet services check the data for compliance to industry standards and synchronize it with demand-side partners ensuring that all trading partners are using identical, updated, standards-compliant data.

"This is an important milestone as QRS works to achieve additional certification that will provide a complete item catalogue accessible through the UCCnet GLOBALregistry services," continued QRS' d'Ouville. "We are very pleased to partner with UCCnet in its mission to provide a product registry for the industry."

About QRS Catalogue™

With more than 90 million unique items, QRS Catalogue allows 3,500 retailers and vendors within the QRS trading community to synchronize data on over 450 product attributes, including price, style, color, size and images. By automating business processes such as item setup and maintenance, promotional price management and product marketing content management, QRS Catalogue helps customers achieve increased revenue and greater productivity. QRS Catalogue offers a complete solution for item setup and synchronization based on global standards and initiatives. QRS is committed to implementing current and future EAN.UCC standards to achieve the goal of global interoperability across standards-compliant data pools.

About QRS

QRS (Nasdaq: QRSI) is a leading provider of collaborative commerce solutions for the global retail trading community. We enable companies to communicate electronically with their global trading partners; conduct cross-company transactions; synchronize and manage product data; collaboratively source, merchandise and import goods; and automatically detect and resolve supply chain issues. More than 8,000* retailers, brand marketers, manufacturers, suppliers, wholesalers and distributors from a variety of retail segments – including Federated Department Stores Inc., Groupe Clarins USA, Jones Apparel Group Inc., The Kroger Company, Sears, Roebuck and Co., and Selfridges plc – use QRS solutions to significantly improve their overall business performance. Learn more about QRS at www.qrs.com.

*Based on total, unique QRS corporate customers that purchased or licensed QRS products and services between January and December 2002.

About UCCnet

UCCnet enables the registration and publication of product information (such as weight and dimensions) by providing a global repository for standardized item, location and trading partner data. Suppliers provide item, location and trading partner information to the GLOBALregistry® services. UCCnet then checks the data for compliance to EAN.UCC System standards and validates the data with demand side partners, ensuring that all trading partners are using identical, updated, EAN.UCC System standards-compliant data. UCCnet is a not-for-profit subsidiary of the Uniform Code Council, Inc. Visit www.uccnet.org for more information.