{"id":13473,"date":"2019-03-08T08:43:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T13:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/?p=13473"},"modified":"2024-06-08T22:03:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T02:03:22","slug":"taking-payments-why-cu-ecommerce-is-the-service-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/2019\/taking-payments-why-cu-ecommerce-is-the-service-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Payments: Why CU Ecommerce is the service for you!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Taking Payments: Why CU Ecommerce is the service for you!\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Congratulations!<\/strong> Your chair, dean or director has asked you to organise an event for your department such as a conference, workshop or fundraising luncheon! All of a sudden, you will be exposed to the joys of booking room space, dealing with catering, and \u2013 best of all \u2013 organising the means to accept payment for registration! These are the opportunities of which you dreamed when you started work at Carleton!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best route if you need to accept payments is to make use of the CU Ecommerce <\/strong>service provided by ITS. We offer an easy and good value solution to allow you to accept payments for registrations (or for selling goods or services) while enabling you to collect all kinds of information about the purchaser, from their email address to their accessibility requirements and any dietary restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is great \u2013 but the question on everyone\u2019s lips is: does CU Ecommerce help the university meet its PCI DSS compliance obligations?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meet its what<\/em><\/strong> now? I hear you cry. Maybe a little background info would be helpful here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Powerful Beast that is PCI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

All payments using credit and debit cards are governed by the Payment Card Industry (PCI)<\/strong>. This organisation is a powerful beast, you will be shocked to hear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Card payments in Canada alone account for over 20 billion payments, transacting $9 trillion per annum. PCI is understandably keen on regulations and best practices when it comes to safe and secure use of payment cards, and it maintains these rules and practices in a protocol called the Data Security Standard (the DSS)<\/strong>.  If you are a merchant this means you have to abide by what it says you have to do in order to accept secure payments. If the university breaches the DSS rules it opens itself up to fines of over $100,000 per month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taming the Beast<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

ITS and the Business Office takes this very seriously, and therefore one of the big advantages of engaging the CU ecommerce service, is that we dedicate a lot of time to ensuring the service is PCI DSS compliant. How do we do that? Glad you asked! We:<\/p>\n\n\n\n