ACH Payment Gateway Providers

You can use the ACH Payment Gateway Providers tab on the Electronic Processors page to configure URLs for the payment gateway provider. You can add or edit:

  • Test URLsClosed Testing option indicates that you are sending dummy data using a test account. When in Test mode: • Adding a credit card or making a direct credit card payment, you will be redirected to a test hosted page to add a credit card or to make a direct credit card payment. • Making a single credit card payment, the appropriate test URL will be used to post the test payments to the provider’s server for processing.

  • Live URLsClosed Live options indicates that you are sending real data. When in Live mode: • Adding a credit card or making a direct credit card payment, you will be redirected to a live hosted page to add a credit card or to make a direct credit card payment. • Making a single credit card payment, the appropriate live URL will be used to post the payments to the provider’s server for processing.

Prerequisites

You must have the following authorizations to perform the tasks:

Task Required Authorization
Review ACH Processors associated with a campus Student Accounts - Configuration - ACH Processors - View authorization
Add a new ACH Processor for a campus Student Accounts - Configuration - ACH Processors - New authorization
Edit an ACH Processor for a campus Student Accounts - Configuration - ACH Processors - Edit authorization

To use the ACH payment gateway provider, your institution must have selected Yes for Enable Additional Payment Gateway Provider for electronic processing?Closed Select Yes to enable an additional payment gateway provider (other than PayPal or ACI) for credit card processing. When you select this option, it permanently disables the following configuration and processes related to credit card and ACH processing in the legacy interface: • Admissions & Housing Deposits • Process Online Applicants under Admissions • Credit Card Processor configuration for single credit card payments on the Electronic Processing tab under Campus Locations • Payment Information for students – Credit Card related areas • Payment Information for Agency • Post FA disbursements (where you can post batch an agency payment using the credit card payment method) • Post Payments – through Ledger Card and Daily menu • Process Electronic Drafts • Refunds – through Ledger Card and Daily menu

Access Method

Select the Configuration tile > expand Student Accounts > select Electronic Processors.

Procedure to Configure ACH Payment Gateway Providers

  1. Select the ACH Payment Gateway Providers tab.

  2. Select the Gateway Provider. The options are ACI and TouchNet.

  3. For ACI, the following values are auto-populated. You can edit the URLs if needed.

    Funding PageClosed Indicates the link to the ACI funding page. The ACI funding page is used to add a student bank account.

    PostClosed Indicates the URL to the post ACH transactions to the ACI server.

  4. For TouchNet (T-Link for TouchNet Ready Partners), specify the following values to add or edit the URLs.

    T-Link PostClosed Indicates the URL to post ACH transactions to TouchNet server.

    uPay PageClosed Indicates the URL to the TouchNet uPay page. TouchNet gateway provider URLs are not populated initially. You need to populate the URLs for TouchNet manually since the URLs are unique for each client's account.

  1. Select Save to save the changes.