<PAGE>


          	      As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
			                             on June 26, 1997

                                          						  Registration No. 333-_____
								  

              		       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
			                        Washington, D. C. 20549

                            				   FORM S-8

                     			 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
			                       THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                    			    BOSTON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
         	      (Exact name of issuer as specified in its charter)

	   Delaware                                                  04-3073385
(State or other jurisdiction of                            (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)                           Identification Number)


100 Quannapowitt Parkway, Wakefield, Massachusetts               01880   
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)                      (Zip Code)

 
                			  1995 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
			                     (Full title of the Plan)

             			       David A. Westenberg, Esq.
				                       c/o Hale and Dorr
				                        60 State Street
			                    Boston, Massachusetts 02109
		                (Name and address of agent for service)

                    				    (617) 526-6000
	     (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)


             		       CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE                   
 
	                     		    Proposed   Proposed
Title of                    maximum    maximum
securities     Amount       offering   aggregate       Amount of
to be          to be        price      offering        registration
registered     registered   per share  price           fee           

Common Stock,   200,000     $30.25(1)  $6,050,000(1)    $2,086.21
$.001 par       shares    
value
__________________________________________________________________
(1)  Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee, and 
based upon the average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock on the 
New York Stock Exchange on June 20, 1997 in accordance with Rules 457(c) and 
457(h) of the Securities Act of 1933.
								   

<PAGE>
<PAGE>

PART I.  INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

		The information required by Part I is included in documents 
sent or given to participants in the Registrant's 1995 Employee Stock Purchase 
Plan pursuant to Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended 
(the "Securities Act").


PART II.  INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

	Item 3.  Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference

		The following documents, which are filed with the Securities 
and Exchange Commission (the "Commission"), are incorporated in this 
Registration Statement by reference:

	(1)  The Registrant's latest annual report filed pursuant to Sections 
13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange
Act"), or the latest prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the 
Securities Act that contains audited financial statements for the registrant's 
latest fiscal year for which such statements have been filed.

	(2)  All other reports filed pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the 
Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the annual report or 
the prospectus referred to in (1) above.

	(3)  The description of the common stock of the Registrant, $.001 par 
value per share (the "Common Stock"), contained in a Registration Statement 
filed under the Exchange Act, including any amendment or report filed for the 
purpose of updating such description.

		All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to 
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing 
of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all shares of Common Stock 
offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all shares of Common Stock 
then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein 
and to be part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents.


	Item 4.  Description of Securities

		Not applicable.


	Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel

		Not Applicable.
<PAGE>
<PAGE>
	Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers

		Article XI of the Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation 
provides for indemnification of directors and officers to the full extent 
permitted under Delaware law.  As permitted by Section 145 of the General 
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, Article XI provides that the 
Registrant shall indemnify any director or officer, any person who has agreed 
to serve as a director or officer, or any person who was serving or has agreed 
to serve at the request of the Registrant as a director or officer of another 
entity, against amounts paid and expenses incurred (including attorney's fees) 
in connection with an action or proceeding to which he is a party or is 
threatened to be made a party by reason of such position, if such person shall 
have acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or 
not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, in any criminal 
proceeding, if such person had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was 
unlawful, provided that, in the case of actions brought by or in the right of 
the corporation, no indemnification shall be made with respect to any matter as 
to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation 
unless and only to the extent that the adjudicating court determines that such 
indemnification is proper under the circumstances.

		Article XI provides that indemnification shall be paid by the 
Registrant if ordered by a court or unless a determination is made (i) by a 
disinterested majority of the Board of Directors or (ii) if such disinterested 
majority so directs, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or 
(iii) by the stockholders, that indemnification is not proper in the 
circumstances because the director or officer did not meet the applicable 
standard of conduct. Article XI also provides that, notwithstanding any other 
provision of such article, to the extent a director or officer has been 
successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any such action, suit or 
proceeding, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he shall be 
indemnified against all costs, charges and expenses reasonably incurred by 
him in connection therewith.  

		Article XI permits the payment by the Registrant of costs, 
charges and expenses incurred in defending a civil or criminal action in advance
of its final disposition, subject, in the case of costs, charges and expenses 
incurred by a director or officer in his capacity as such, to receipt of an 
undertaking by the indemnified person to repay such payment if it is ultimately 
determined that such person is not entitled to indemnification under 
Article XI.
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<PAGE>
		Article VII of the Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation 
provides that no director shall be liable to the Registrant or its stockholders 
for monetary damages for breach of his fiduciary duty as a director, except for 
liabilities (i) for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the 
Registrant or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or 
which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) for 
acts in violation of Section 174 of the General Corporation Law of the State 
of Delaware, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an 
improper personal benefit.

		The Registrant has directors and officers liability insurance 
for the benefit of its directors and officers.                 

		Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the 
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons 
of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the 
Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such 
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and 
is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification 
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses 
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant 
in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by 
such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities 
being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel 
the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of 
appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is 
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed 
by the final adjudication of such issue.

	Item 7.  Exemption from Registration Claimed

		Not applicable.

	Item 8.  Exhibits

		The Exhibit Index immediately preceding the exhibits is 
incorporated herein by reference.
<PAGE>
<PAGE>
	Item 9.  Undertakings

		1.   The Registrant hereby undertakes:

	(1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being 
made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:

	(i)  To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the 
Securities Act;

	(ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after 
the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent 
post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, 
represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the 
Registration Statement; and

	(iii)  To include any material information with respect to the plan of 
distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any 
material change to such information in the Registration Statement; provided, 
however, that paragraphs (i) and (ii) do not apply if the Registration 
Statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8, and the information required to be 
included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in 
periodic reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d)
of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the Registration 
Statement.

	(2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the 
Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new 
Registration Statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the 
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona 
fide offering thereof.

	(3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment 
any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of
the offering.

		2.  The Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of 
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the 
Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the 
Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's 
annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is 
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be 
a new Registration Statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be in the initial 
bona fide offering thereof.

		3.  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the 
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons 
of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the 
Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such 
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and 
is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification 
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses 
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant 
in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by 
such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities 
being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the 
matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of 
appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is 
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed 
by the final adjudication of such issue.
<PAGE>
<PAGE>

SIGNATURES

	Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the registrant 
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the 
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration 
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly 
authorized, in the Town of Wakefield, Massachusetts on the 26th day of 
June, 1997.

	
					       BOSTON TECHNOLOGY, INC.

					       
					       By:/s/Francis E. Girard                                     
					       -----------------------
					       Francis E. Girard
					       President and Chief
					       Executive Officer




                      			    POWER OF ATTORNEY

	We, the undersigned officers and directors of Boston Technology, Inc. 
hereby severally constitute Francis E. Girard, Carol B. Langer, A.K. Wnorowski 
and David A. Westenberg, and each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys 
with full power to them, and each of them singly, to sign for us and in our 
names in the capacities indicated below, the Registration Statement on Form S-8 
filed herewith and any and all subsequent amendments to said Registration 
Statement, and generally to do all such things in our names and behalf in our 
capacities as officers and directors to enable Boston Technology, Inc. to 
comply with all requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby 
ratifying and confirming our signatures as they may be signed by said 
attorneys, or any of them, to said Registration Statement and any and all 
amendments thereto.
<PAGE>
<PAGE>
	Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration 
Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and 
on the date indicated.  
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
	Signature                  Title                               Date

<S>                                <S>                                <S>
/s/Francis E. Girard               Director, President and            ) 
Francis E. Girard                  Chief Executive Officer            )
                            				   (principal executive officer)      )
								                                                              )
								                                                              )    
								                                                              )    
								                                                              )    
/s/Carol B. Langer                 Senior Vice President of Finance,  )
Carol B. Langer                    Chief Financial Officer,           )
			                            	   Treasurer, and Secretary           )
				                               (principal financial officer)      )    
								                                                              )
								                                                              )
								                                                              )
/s/David J. Beauregard             Assistant Vice President and       )     
David J. Beauregard                Corporate Controller               )
				                               (principal accounting officer      )     
								                                                              )
								                                                              )
/s/Greg C. Carr                    Director                           ) June 26, 1997
Greg C. Carr                                                          )
								                                                              )
								                                                              )
/s/Richard J. Connaughton          Director                           )
Richard J. Connaughton                                                )            
								                                                              )    
								                                                              )    
/s/Herman B. Leonard               Director                           ) 
Herman B. Leonard                                                     )            
								                                                              )    
								                                                              )    
/s/Joseph E. Norberg               Director                           ) 
Joseph E. Norberg                                                     )    
								                                                              )    
								                                                              )    
/s/Robert J. Slezak                Director, Executive Vice           ) 
Robert J. Slezak                   President, Technology and          )            
				                               Marketing                          )                      
								                                                              )
/s/Richard K. Snelling             Director                           )
Richard K. Snelling                                                   )
</TABLE>
<PAGE>
<PAGE>
                     			       Exhibit Index



Exhibit                                                 
Sequential
Number           Description                                      
Page No. 

   3.1 (1)      Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, of the Registrant

   3.2 (1)      By-Laws, as amended, of the Registrant

   5.1          Opinion of Hale and Dorr        

  23.1          Consent of Hale and Dorr (included in Exhibit 5.1)

  23.2          Consent of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.

  24.1          Power of Attorney (included on the signature page of this 
              		Registration Statement)


----------------------------
(1)     Incorporated herein by reference from the Registrant's 
	Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 33-32134)
 

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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
			                             on June 26, 1997

                                          						  Registration No. 333-_____
								  

              		       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
			                        Washington, D. C. 20549

                            				   FORM S-8

                     			 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
			                       THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                    			    BOSTON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
         	      (Exact name of issuer as specified in its charter)

	   Delaware                                                  04-3073385
(State or other jurisdiction of                            (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)                           Identification Number)

100 Quannapowitt Parkway, Wakefield, Massachusetts               01880   
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)                      (Zip Code)

 
                			  1995 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
			                     (Full title of the Plan)

             			       David A. Westenberg, Esq.
				                       c/o Hale and Dorr
				                        60 State Street
			                    Boston, Massachusetts 02109
		                (Name and address of agent for service)

                    				    (617) 526-6000
	     (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

             		       CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE                   
 
	                     		    Proposed   Proposed
Title of                    maximum    maximum
securities     Amount       offering   aggregate       Amount of
to be          to be        price      offering        registration
registered     registered   per share  price           fee           

Common Stock,   200,000     $30.25(1)  $6,050,000(1)    $2,086.21
$.001 par       shares    
value
__________________________________________________________________
(1)  Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee, and 
based upon the average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock on the 
New York Stock Exchange on June 20, 1997 in accordance with Rules 457(c) and 
457(h) of the Securities Act of 1933.
PART I.  INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

		The information required by Part I is included in documents 
sent or given to participants in the Registrant's 1995 Employee Stock Purchase 
Plan pursuant to Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended 
(the "Securities Act").

PART II.  INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

	Item 3.  Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference

		The following documents, which are filed with the Securities 
and Exchange Commission (the "Commission"), are incorporated in this 
Registration Statement by reference:

	(1)  The Registrant's latest annual report filed pursuant to Sections 
13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange
Act"), or the latest prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the 
Securities Act that contains audited financial statements for the registrant's 
latest fiscal year for which such statements have been filed.

	(2)  All other reports filed pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the 
Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the annual report or 
the prospectus referred to in (1) above.

	(3)  The description of the common stock of the Registrant, $.001 par 
value per share (the "Common Stock"), contained in a Registration Statement 
filed under the Exchange Act, including any amendment or report filed for the 
purpose of updating such description.

		All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to 
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing 
of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all shares of Common Stock 
offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all shares of Common Stock 
then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein 
and to be part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents.

	Item 4.  Description of Securities

		Not applicable.

	Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel

		Not Applicable.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers

		Article XI of the Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation 
provides for indemnification of directors and officers to the full extent 
permitted under Delaware law.  As permitted by Section 145 of the General 
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, Article XI provides that the 
Registrant shall indemnify any director or officer, any person who has agreed 
to serve as a director or officer, or any person who was serving or has agreed 
to serve at the request of the Registrant as a director or officer of another 
entity, against amounts paid and expenses incurred (including attorney's fees) 
in connection with an action or proceeding to which he is a party or is 
threatened to be made a party by reason of such position, if such person shall 
have acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or 
not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, in any criminal 
proceeding, if such person had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was 
unlawful, provided that, in the case of actions brought by or in the right of 
the corporation, no indemnification shall be made with respect to any matter as 
to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation 
unless and only to the extent that the adjudicating court determines that such 
indemnification is proper under the circumstances.

		Article XI provides that indemnification shall be paid by the 
Registrant if ordered by a court or unless a determination is made (i) by a 
disinterested majority of the Board of Directors or (ii) if such disinterested 
majority so directs, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or 
(iii) by the stockholders, that indemnification is not proper in the 
circumstances because the director or officer did not meet the applicable 
standard of conduct. Article XI also provides that, notwithstanding any other 
provision of such article, to the extent a director or officer has been 
successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any such action, suit or 
proceeding, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he shall be 
indemnified against all costs, charges and expenses reasonably incurred by 
him in connection therewith.  

		Article XI permits the payment by the Registrant of costs, 
charges and expenses incurred in defending a civil or criminal action in advance
of its final disposition, subject, in the case of costs, charges and expenses 
incurred by a director or officer in his capacity as such, to receipt of an 
undertaking by the indemnified person to repay such payment if it is ultimately 
determined that such person is not entitled to indemnification under 
Article XI.
Article VII of the Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation 
provides that no director shall be liable to the Registrant or its stockholders 
for monetary damages for breach of his fiduciary duty as a director, except for 
liabilities (i) for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the 
Registrant or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or 
which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) for 
acts in violation of Section 174 of the General Corporation Law of the State 
of Delaware, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an 
improper personal benefit.

		The Registrant has directors and officers liability insurance 
for the benefit of its directors and officers.                 

		Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the 
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons 
of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the 
Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such 
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and 
is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification 
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses 
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant 
in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by 
such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities 
being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel 
the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of 
appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is 
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed 
by the final adjudication of such issue.

	Item 7.  Exemption from Registration Claimed

		Not applicable.

	Item 8.  Exhibits

		The Exhibit Index immediately preceding the exhibits is 
incorporated herein by reference.
Item 9.  Undertakings

		1.   The Registrant hereby undertakes:

	(1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being 
made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:

	(i)  To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the 
Securities Act;

	(ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after 
the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent 
post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, 
represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the 
Registration Statement; and

	(iii)  To include any material information with respect to the plan of 
distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any 
material change to such information in the Registration Statement; provided, 
however, that paragraphs (i) and (ii) do not apply if the Registration 
Statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8, and the information required to be 
included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in 
periodic reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d)
of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the Registration 
Statement.

	(2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the 
Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new 
Registration Statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the 
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona 
fide offering thereof.

	(3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment 
any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of
the offering.

		2.  The Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of 
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the 
Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the 
Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's 
annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is 
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be 
a new Registration Statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be in the initial 
bona fide offering thereof.

		3.  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the 
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons 
of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the 
Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such 
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and 
is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification 
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses 
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant 
in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by 
such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities 
being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the 
matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of 
appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is 
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed 
by the final adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES

	Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the registrant 
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the 
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration 
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly 
authorized, in the Town of Wakefield, Massachusetts on the 26th day of 
June, 1997.

	
					       BOSTON TECHNOLOGY, INC.

					       
					       By:/s/Francis E. Girard                                     
					       -----------------------
					       Francis E. Girard
					       President and Chief
					       Executive Officer

                      			    POWER OF ATTORNEY

	We, the undersigned officers and directors of Boston Technology, Inc. 
hereby severally constitute Francis E. Girard, Carol B. Langer, A.K. Wnorowski 
and David A. Westenberg, and each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys 
with full power to them, and each of them singly, to sign for us and in our 
names in the capacities indicated below, the Registration Statement on Form S-8 
filed herewith and any and all subsequent amendments to said Registration 
Statement, and generally to do all such things in our names and behalf in our 
capacities as officers and directors to enable Boston Technology, Inc. to 
comply with all requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby 
ratifying and confirming our signatures as they may be signed by said 
attorneys, or any of them, to said Registration Statement and any and all 
amendments thereto.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration 
Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and 
on the date indicated.
Signature                  Title                               Date
/s/Francis E. Girard               Director, President and            ) 
Francis E. Girard                  Chief Executive Officer            )
                            				   (principal executive officer)      )
								                                                              )
								                                                              )    
								                                                              )    
								                                                              )    
/s/Carol B. Langer                 Senior Vice President of Finance,  )
Carol B. Langer                    Chief Financial Officer,           )
			                            	   Treasurer, and Secretary           )
				                               (principal financial officer)      )    
								                                                              )
								                                                              )
								                                                              )
/s/David J. Beauregard             Assistant Vice President and       )     
David J. Beauregard                Corporate Controller               )
				                               (principal accounting officer      )     
								                                                              )
								                                                              )
/s/Greg C. Carr                    Director                           ) June 26, 1997
Greg C. Carr                                                          )
								                                                              )
								                                                              )
/s/Richard J. Connaughton          Director                           )
Richard J. Connaughton                                                )            
								                                                              )    
								                                                              )    
/s/Herman B. Leonard               Director                           ) 
Herman B. Leonard                                                     )            
								                                                              )    
								                                                              )    
/s/Joseph E. Norberg               Director                           ) 
Joseph E. Norberg                                                     )    
								                                                              )    
								                                                              )    
/s/Robert J. Slezak                Director, Executive Vice           ) 
Robert J. Slezak                   President, Technology and          )            
				                               Marketing                          )                      
								                                                              )
/s/Richard K. Snelling             Director                           )
Richard K. Snelling                                                   )
Exhibit Index

Exhibit                                                 
Sequential
Number           Description                                      
Page No. 

   3.1 (1)      Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, of the Registrant

   3.2 (1)      By-Laws, as amended, of the Registrant

   5.1          Opinion of Hale and Dorr        

  23.1          Consent of Hale and Dorr (included in Exhibit 5.1)

  23.2          Consent of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.

  24.1          Power of Attorney (included on the signature page of this 
              		Registration Statement)

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(1)     Incorporated herein by reference from the Registrant's 
	Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 33-32134)