Alternatives to viewing full Credit Card number for repeat orders


PCI compliance is an important part of your online store, and requires that you and your vendors, such as UltraCart and your payment gateway, work together to make sure that each step in the payment process is performed with the appropriate controls and safeguards.  To this end, your merchant account provider/gateway may require you to submit proof of PCI Compliance.  

As part of our regular and ongoing compliance with the safeguards related to PCI regulations, the ultracart user interface has been changed to prohibit access to the complete credit card number. 

This change eliminates your liability related to unintended exposure of sensitive credit card details that could lead to misuse and abuse of your customers credit card information. 

In place of exposing the credit card details, UltraCart has introduce two new features that provide you, the merchant, the ability to generate additional payments to existing orders and also generate new orders, while adhering to the protections described in the previous paragraph.

VIRTUAL TERMINAL

The (virtual) terminal button located on the billing tab of the order editor allows you to apply additional payment transactions to an existing order. 

Access the Order Editor by clicking on the  "Customer information" button from the Order Review screen, Accounts Receivables department or Shipping departments.

Then click the "terminal" button to be presented the following screen:

 

2. BEOE Clone Order

Cloning orders via the BEOE (back end order entry) is a powerful tool that makes the creation of new orders quick and easy. There are two version of the clone tool: "beoe: clone order"  & "beoe: clone w/out items".  The first option clones the details of the original order including the same item contents, while the second option clones from the original order without including the original order items.

 

Below is the order above as it appears within the Back End Order Entry tool after clicking the "beoe: clone order" button.

With these tools, you'll no longer need to waste time gathering up CC details and then manually creating new orders from scratch. The virtual terminal and BEOE "clone order" feature allows you to accomplish your tasks much quicker and easier thus eliminating the inevitable typos and security risks that occur with gathering the CC data.

See also:

Credit Card Processing Transaction Gateway Integration list