Many online systems reach the point in their development where there arises a desire to trade with the user; or at least to take money in return for goods or services. Clearly it is possible to ask users to post payment or a cheque but the traditional on-line method of addressing this requirement is to arrange to take credit and debit cards and to be assured of funds almost immediately.

In a shop or other face to face environment there are a variety of mature services available for Chip and PIN transactions where a customer inserts their card into a reader, enters their PIN and a remote computer either confirms or refuses the payment. Both the retailer and the customer instantly know the status of the transaction and can follow through or retry as appropriate. The card readers, payment software and merchant services are all rented from a payment supplier [more...].

The Transaction Tracking System [TTS]

The Transaction Tracking system consolidates all of the university’s online payment into a single payment processing solution and provides a number of features:- [more ...]

Payment System

IT Services has created a payment solution to sit between your application and the Transaction Tracking System and simplify any custom development [more ...].