Card authorization requirements

iMIS ships with the card authorization and Service Central modules. To use card authorization in iMIS, you need the CCAUTH license key. You also need a high-speed Internet connection to handle a high volume of transactions.

To use card authorization, you must:

1. Set up a merchant account at your bank or another financial institution.
2. Set up a payment processing account. Your payment processor must be supported by your payment gateway service. If you are doing business outside of the United States, use a payment processor that handles international currencies.
3. Register with a payment gateway service and install additional gateway software as required. iMIS natively supports Payflow Pro (see Implementing Payflow Pro as an authorization gateway), offered by PayPal, (previously Verisign), and SafePay (see Implementing SafePay as an authorization gateway), offered by TNS), which handles international sales, and Moneris, offered by Moneris Solutions, based in Canada and focused on Canadian sales.

Note: European debit card transactions in iMIS cannot be processed with either gateway. Instead, your AiSP must implement a custom gateway interface.

Before you take any of these steps, you should understand what card authorization is and how it works.