Tax Assessor-Collector, Credit Card Processing Services

The Vendor is required to provide for Electronic Payment Processing.
- Provide the county tax assessor-collector’s office with a comprehensive program of payment processing services that serve the tax assessor collector’s current and anticipated needs.
- The County intends to coordinate with the selected vendor to provide payment processes to support collection of these payments.
- Services to be provided include, but are not limited to, the following:
• The systems (or programs) proposed must be able to authenticate the cardholder and use the current compliance standards to authorize and capture the transaction and be compatible with any future technology required by the credit card industry.
• The system proposed must be able to utilize electronic check conversion for internet payments.
• Must provide payment, settlement, and refunding services.
• Must be cardholder information security program (CISP), payment card industry (PCI), and data security standard (DSS) compliant.
• It is required that the vendor be in compliance with legal mandates for processing debit, credit card and e-check payments. Please verify your company meets this requirement, list and describe any certifications which your company has been granted and advise how the certifications relate to legal requirements.
• Must comply with all payment card industry data security standards (PCI DSS), in handling, storage, processing, and/or transmission of cardholder data, and be able to demonstrate compliance to county upon request.
• Must be able to post payments to multiple merchant ID’S.
• Must be able to provide a backup web solution to take payments if the primary access is down.
• Must deposit gross payments in the county’s bank account daily.
• Must provide online daily transaction and account reconciliation reports with multiple sorting options.
• Must provide a software or internet-based point-of-sale. The system should allow the county to run transaction reports during the business day without interrupting the ability of the point-of-sale system to process transactions.