2.5 Role-players in the system

2.5.1. Payment Broker

Secure website hosted in Vodacom secure domain that allows merchants to broker or facilitate a call to the Payment Gateway payment checkout page via secure URL.
The Broker will construct a URL that will act as though the merchant is integrating directly with the payment gateway.


2.5.2. Payment Gateway

Secure website hosted in Vodacom secure domain that allows customer to pay for the goods purchased from merchant.


2.5.3. Customer

Defined as a person requesting the payment for goods.


2.5.4. Merchant

Defined as a business or person that provides the goods to the customer, and the merchant will integrate to the VPG.
The merchant must meet the conditions listed in the following table.

Table 6. Merchant Prerequisites
# Condition
Type
Condition
Details
1. Bank Registration The merchant must have a valid merchant registration for eCommerce transactions with Nedbank (Vodacom Financial Services Acquiring Bank)
2. Hosted Pages Hosted pages belong to the Payment Gateway in this instance.
Branding can be applied to the merchant templates for the payment checkout page, and the outcome of the customer payment.
For more detail refer to Section 6: Merchant Templates of the Merchant Interface Payments Page v2.1 specification
3. Merchant Configuration Vodacom Payment Solutions Operations team must configure merchant details on TransSmart.
The following information is required:
  • Merchant Number
  • Terminal ID
  • MCC
  • Merchant Entity Name
  • Merchant Aliases
  • Merchant Bank Account Number
  • Merchant Business Address

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