- Alliance
Credit Card Authorization Server
- (Alliance
AuthExpress) System Specifications
Architecture
- Independent
transaction routing
- Message
matching for authorization responses
- Load
balancing for multiple interfaces
- Multiple
simultaneous network support
- Simultaneous
authorization and settlement (network dependent)
- Diagnostic
logging
- Authorization
transaction logging
- Optional
statistics capture
- credit,
debit, check, private card support
- Subsystem
management for performance
- Error
notification on transaction failure
- Native
AS/400 applications (no Java)
- Cross-platform
integration
Authorization
Networks
- Visa
Access Point (VAP)
- Visa
Direct Exchange
- First
Data (FDMS)
- Alliance
Data Systems
- First
Data
- ValueLink
- Fifth
Third Bank
- Southern
DataComm Protobase
-
- (Call
for current list)
Application
Interfaces
- TCP
Sockets
- TCP
SSL Sockets for data encryption
- WebSphere
MQ (MQSeries)
- FTP
- SSL
FTP for data encryption
- AS/400
data queue
- HTTP
web
- HTTPS
secure web
- Flat
file
Error
handling
- Auto
recovery for communications
- SMTP
email error notification
- SNMP
network management Trap messages
- Operator
queue notification
- Diagnostic
logging
Settlement
- TCP
sockets transaction settlement
- FTP,
SSL FTP for file transfer
- Dial
2780/3780 BSC connections
- PGP
encryption for data security
- Triple
DES encryption for data security
Hardware
and software requirements
- IBM
iSeries (AS/400) RISC system, any model
- OS/400
V5R1 or later.
- Authorization
network connection.
Services
Townsend
will provide consulting services to insure
authorization network certification as needed. For
application integration Townsend will provide
consultants for user-specified platforms. For custom
communications or integration requirements Townsend
will provide direct communications consulting
services.
Support
The
standard support for Alliance Credit Card
Authorization Server varies depending on the edition
licensed:
Alliance
AuthExpress Entry Edition: Standard business hour
support by telephone, email, web and Fax.
Alliance
AuthExpress SMB Edition: Extended business hour
support by telephone, email, web and Fax. Remote dial
services.
Alliance
AuthExpress
Enterprise Edition: 24/7 pager, telephone, email, web
and Fax support. Remote dial services.
