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D365 ERP F&O credit card processing

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Need a credit card processing solution for D365? What you used in Microsoft Dynamics AX is probably not what you want for Microsoft D365 F&O. That’s because most payment gateways are horribly outdated with current payment processing requirements. Aside from PCI compliance, equally critical is compliance with the card network rules.

Three things you need to ask before selecting a payment gateway for D365:

  • Does the payment gateway support Unscheduled Credential On File?
  • How will you identify expired authorizations and update them?
  • If the initial authorization and final settlement are different, how does the payment gateway manage the authorization so that you can meet requirements for level 3 processing?

D365, ERP, and ecommerce consultants are generally not great resources for the last mile- getting paid, because it’s not their core expertise. If anyone tells you here are two or three options, you choose whichever you want, RUN! Each payment gateway has unique attributes. You need a consultant that not only knows payment processing, but also knows differences between payment gateways and how each will help or hurt your goals.

How can you find a good D365 payment gateway consultant?

While there is not a specific certification that is critical, it helps to have some type of certification vs just experience. The PCI Council offers a few different options, all of which are expensive which is why most people won’t bother getting them. However, because level 4 merchants are required to use only PCI QIR certified individuals, the PCI Council has lowered the cost (as well as the complexity, but that’s another story) to increase the number certified.

Since you’re reading this article, you’re looking for expert help. You’ve found it. I’ve been blogging about payment processing for years. I have used, sold and implemented solutions for authorize.net, PayPal, Payflow Pro, CenPOS, First Data, Chase Paymentech and many, many others. I’ve analyzed merchant statements, ecommerce shopping carts, ERP’s, merchant processors / acquirers, and a host of solutions that interact to impact merchant security, fraud risk, processing fees, and efficiency. Because I’ve seen what happens after the sale, including non-qualified transactions, chargebacks, risky security practices that often go against company policy but employees do it anyway, and more, I’m in a better position than most to give you the best advice for business to business, business to government, large transactions, card not present sales and specialty retail. If I don’t know it, I research everything and ask lots of questions that consultants and merchants don’t know to ask.

The Christine Speedy difference. PCI compliance is important to mitigate data breach risk, but equally important is compliance with complicated card network rules. Have you read any of the 1,000+ pages of Visa Rules? Or 300+ Mastercard transaction processing rules? Have any of the people you rely on? I’ve spent countless hours educating myself on them and learning about the nuances that impact your profit and risk. Technology directly impacts compliance. It doesn’t matter how big or how old a company is; the reality is most players in the payments industry fall behind with every new rule that comes out, even though these rules are usually announced years in advance so that they can prepare. Call 954-942-0483, 9-5 ET for expert advice about all things payments.

Event sales credit card authorization form template 2019

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Accepting credit card deposits for events requires compliance with both card not present and stored card rules. Not PCI Compliance rules for data security, but rather authorization rules set by Visa, MasterCard etc. Comply with the rules and get rewarded with more authorization approvals, qualify for lower rates and mitigate risk of chargebacks.

Professionalism starts on the phone and continues throughout the buying experience. By replacing traditional credit card authorization forms with technology that puts buyers in control of their cardholder data, merchants create a better buying experience. Traditional credit card authorization forms were created to establish a record to use in the event of a future dispute. They’re useless today.

Merchants must replace credit card authorization forms with technology compliant with new rules for storing and using stored cards.

  • The initial authorization authenticates the cardholder.
  • The initial authorization informs that the cardholder has agreed to merchant storing card.
  • The transaction type will indicate it’s an estimate.
  • Future authorizations will reference any required above items and be submitted as Incremental or Final.

Compliance with the above is not possible with desktop terminals and even most virtual terminals and payment gateways. Merchants need a virtual terminal and or payment gateway that supports Unscheduled Credential On File, Incremental and Final Authorization rules. This is new terminology and new fields in the transaction process.

“Don’t be surprised if vendors don’t know about or support these rules. Just like EMV chip rollout, it’s a huge change and few providers are keeping up. We’re an exception. I had solutions for my clients prior to the EMV shift in October 2015 and again for the 2017 stored card mandate.”

Christine Speedy

Our solutions reduce buyer friction to pay and enables event sales and back office staff to collect deposits and capture cardholder data via text or email. These include push out payment requests via text or email, capture cardholder data for later use, and upload an invoice to collect payment.

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Benefits of compliant solution:

  • Reduced merchant fees even with the same merchant account.
  • Increased approvals with cardholder authentication.
  • Mitigate chargeback risk including fraud liability shifting to issuer.
  • More convenient for buyers- 24/7 payments on their schedule, not yours.
  • Buyers are in control of choosing to store payment methods

Call Christine Speedy, PCI Council QIR certified, for simple solutions to card not present payment transaction problems, 954-942-0483, 9-5 ET. The cloud technology you need today to accept all payment types, with optional merchant, check processing and other services. 

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Level 3 Credit Card Processing Solutions

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Level 3 processing requires payment solutions that can both send level data and dynamically optimize transactions to qualify for level 3 rates. Learn the secrets to higher profits right now. Were you told your last solution would fix your problems so you’d qualify properly? Have you been told with more training you could fix the problems to hit level 3? Hogwash! It’s not your fault, you just didn’t have an insider perspective until now.

Many payment gateways can send level 3 data, but the requirements to qualify for level III interchange rates are much more complicated than that. Do you perform preauthorizations? You know what happens when the preauth expires? Or when the final settlement is not the same as the preauthorization? These are just two of many reason merchants fail to qualify for level 3.

New rules for storing cards and using stored cards can also impact profits. Hint: If you haven’t made big changes to how you do this since October 2017, you’ve got a problem. Failure to comply with any rules negates rate qualification. If issuers are not sophisticated enough to catch all the rule breakers now, it’s only a matter of time. In the future, cardholders will be able to login to their bank and view all the companies that are storing their cards. So if you haven’t made the changes needed per new stored card requirements, including the new Unscheduled Credential On File (UCOF) transaction indicator, that creates a problem for the long term goals in financial industry. Compliance enforcement can include penalties and assessments.

I’ve seen demo’s, heard sales pitches, and read the documentation on many payment gateways and virtual terminals. It’s not what’s there, but what’s not there that is most revealing. Before choosing a level 3 processing solution, get a demo. If you’ll be using a virtual terminal, use that for the demo. If you’ll be using an integrated solution, view the integrated solution demo.

The demo:

  • Store a regular card and business card. What methods are used to capture the initial card data? Then charge each card. Note the steps for each.
  • How does the solution manage reversals on preauthorizations?
  • What’s the process to identify and renew an expired authorization?
  • How can buyer complete a transaction with 3-D Secure?
  • Pull report to retrieve transaction.
  • Pull report with level 3 data.
  • Ask if the gateway supports Recurring, Installment, or UCOF depending on your needs; virtually all support Recurring, but not the others.

Note how much of the process is automated, how much relies on people making decisions, and if any items are not available. Take screenshots. On a Mac it’s command + shift+ 4.

Want a payments expert as a silent observer? Ask me to sit in on the call for unbiased feedback.

Call Christine Speedy, PCI Council QIR certified, for simple solutions to complex payment transaction problems, 954-942-0483, 9-5 ET. CenPOS authorized reseller based out of South Florida and NY. CenPOS is an integrated commerce technology platform driving innovative, omnichannel solutions tailored to meet a merchant’s market needs. Providing a single point of integration, the CenPOS platform combines payment, commerce and value-added functionality enabling merchants to transform their commerce experience, eliminate the need to manage complex integrations, reduce the burden of accepting payments and create deeper customer relationships.

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