Please Note
It's strongly recommend you do not store credit cards on your system unless you feel it is absolutely necessary.
No system is 100% safe and you will be held responsible for any breach in the security of your server.
CISP compliant payment gateways are the only recommend repository for customer payment information.
While we provide this feature as a service to our customers, we strongly advise against using it.
Since
no encryption method is completely secure, we cannot be held
responsible for any issues surrounding the storage of your customers
payment data.
Entering in the information below will create a certificate which is the first set of steps to activate this feature. You would get to this area by clicking on 'Cart Settings' -> 'Global Cart Settings' -> 'CSS Settings'.
1. Make sure you enter in a password where prompted as shown below. <The password you enter will be used to view payment data on the order page.>.
2. Fill in your Location and company information in the remaining fields.
3. Once completed the information below to generate a certificate for encrypting payment information.
PLEASE READ
PLEASE NOTE - Any payment data encrypted with this certificate can only be accessed by the password you enter.
While
you can generate a new certificate at anytime, you will not be able to
access payment information encrypted with an older certificate.
Therefore, it is very important you do not lose this password. If lost, the only solution is to generate a new certificate.
4 Make sure you have setup your certificate in the CCS settings before enabling this gateway as shown above.
5. Once done with that you will need to go enable this has a payment gateway. To do this you would go to 'Cart Settings' -> 'Payment Methods'. From there select 'Credit Card Storage' from the pull down menu and follow the steps below.
6. Once there Enable the CCS by selecting 'Yes' as shown below.
7. Click save settings and log-out.
