Online Payment Virtual Merchant

With Virtual Merchant, credit card payments can be accepted from the Alumni, Application, Graduate Application, and Student portals. You will need to select Virtual Merchant as the Online Payment Vendor and enter the tuition TransDoc and the four Online Payment Parameters as shown below.

To Setup Virtual Merchant Online Payment:

  1. From the CAMS Enterprise Home page, click CAMS Manager >CAMS Portal >Portal Configuration >Payment Configuration. The Payment Configuration window opens with the Student tab selected.
  2. Select Authorize After Payment if students should be authorized and moved to Official Registration after any payment is made.
  3. The Username and Password fields are not used with this provider.
  4. Select Virtual Merchant from the Online Payment Vendor drop-down.
  5. In the upper grid right-click to add the TransDocs that will be used for tuition and various other payments.

Note: Institutions that use Virtual Merchant must enter the Tuition TransDoc in the upper data grid rather than adding it to the campus reference table.

  1. In the lower grid right-click to create the ssl_merchant_id, ssl_pin, ssl_transaction_type, and ssl_user_id that are provided by Virtual Merchant.
  2. Once online payments have been made using Virtual Merchant, the payments will be available for transfer to billing from CAMS Manager >CAMS Portal >Transfer >Credit Cards.

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