Credit Card Support

iChapter Network supports professional web-based credit card services as an option to the on-line reservation process. These credit card services would replace any off-line (terminal based) credit card swipe process you might use today. All web-based credit card merchants provide a manual process for processing credit cards call a Virtual Terminal. Web-based credit card transactions have a few specific requirements and are required to procesds credit cards in a secure and protected manner.

1. Must be transacted from a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) folder on your server
2. Must have a dedicated or shared SSL Certificate
3. In some cases, must have the proper software installed on the server for credit card transaction processing (this is both iChapter Network software and the credit card gateway software).

On-line credit card processing requires features that are supported at no additional cost by some hosting services or can carry additional monthly fees. It all depends on your hosting service agreement.

Over the years, iChapter has worked with many chapters and has in-turn developed software to support a number of credit card gateways. As long as the currently supported gateways are used, there is no additional cost for setting up credit card from an iChapter costs perspective (there are setup costs charged by the credit card merchants though).

The following gateways currently supported by iChapter Network are:

• SecurePay (used by most APICS chapters using iChapter) Visit WMS Merchant Services for more information.
• Verisign
• Sage Payment Solutions

Note: Credit card information such as card number and expiration date are not stored and cannot be stored by iChapter Network. We only store the transaction number (generated by iChapter), card type and approval number of the transaction provided by the gateway.