Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Provide a competitively based discount for the processing of the major credit cards: Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express. 2. The service shall allow the County to authenticate the cardholders and use the card’s magnetic stripe or chip to authenticate the cardholder and to authorize and capture the transaction. 3. Provide payment, settlement and refunding services. 4. One phone number or web address for multiple invoice types. 5. Provide the customer a transactional receipt with: a. All but the last 4 numbers of the credit card redacted b. No reference to the expiration date c. The processing fee listed separately on the receipt 6. Provide immediate and direct deposit of all payments made by a customer into a designated County bank account through a County-approved banking partner. At no time would the payments flow through a contractor’s bank account. 7. Fully integrate with the current and future versions of Tyler Cashiering and Munis products. 8. Integration either direct or via an acceptable import with Landmark (Recorder of Deeds software). 9. Provide, at no cost to the County, on-site or on-line technical service as required in the event of operational difficulties related to transmission of daily transactions or any equipment/software failure or malfunction. 10. Be a company or corporation regularly engaged in the acceptance and processing of debit/credit card and other forms of electronic payments, providing on-line reporting service with at least 5 (5) years of experience.
