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Transact Campus/CashNet Hosted Payment Setup

The Transact Campus and CashNet Hosted Payment integration allows institutions to securely process parking and violation transactions through their existing CashNet merchant account. The primary purpose of this configuration is to ensure successful communication and data transfer between the OPS-COM environment and the external CashNet payment gateway. This article is intended for OPS-COM administrators and IT staff responsible for configuring financial integrations.

Setup and Configuration

Setting up this integration requires a coordinated exchange of information between your organization and the PaymentOPS-COM Pagesupport team, followed by specific URL configurations within your CashNet portal.

Information to Provide to OPS-COM Support

To begin the setup process, you must supply specific configuration details from your CashNet system to the OPS-COM support team.

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      • Under Store Settings, you will need to configure the following settings based on the URLs supplied by OPSCOM:

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      • Go to the "HTTP Notifications" configuration with CashNet.
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      • If you would like HTTP notifications, enter the URL next to each category. If you leave the field blank you will not receive notifications for that category.
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      • Please contactContact CASHNet Client Support if you need to enable athe new connection.connection before attempting to process live transactions through OPS-COM.

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