Shift4's Developer Alliance Program equips you with all the development tools and technical support needed to integrate real-time payment authorization, settlement, reporting and fraud control functionality into your applications.

With our free, simple-to-use API, you can leverage the full power of DOLLARS ON THE NET^® within your own solution, allowing you to deliver payment services to diverse multi-site, mixed-platform enterprises. Plus, when you join Shift4's Alliance Program, you free yourself from the chaotic world of merchant banks, third-party payment processors, merchant service providers and ever changing security regulations

What the Alliance Program Offers Developers

Enhanced Functionality
The program allows you to provide your customers with the best enterprise payment solution available with all the features they have been asking for just by creating one interface to DOLLARS ON THE NET. DOLLARS ON THE NET adds tremendous value to your system with:

Universal Transaction Gateway®
With DOLLARS ON THE NET working as your communication gateway you will never have to reprogram your application to accommodate customers who switch banks/processors or communication methods. Once an interface is in place, Shift4 develops any additional programming necessary to communicate with each and every processing network required. Shift4's Universal Transaction Gateway technology also allows you to seamlessly integrate with various serial devices - PIN pads, signature capture devices, etc. - that your customers require.

Regulatory Compliance
Dealing with the regulatory requirements of the different card associations can be a significant drain on your organization's resources. The new universal card associations' Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) are the most stringent security guidelines ever put in place for the credit card industry. Maintaining compliance with these guidelines, as well as Visa's Payment Application Best Practices (PABP) and the Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS), can cost your organization significant time and money and slow down your development cycle. With an interface to DOLLARS ON THE NET, however, you never have to worry about maintaining compliance when you follow our API requirements. Shift4 undergoes extensive annual independent security audits to ensure the complete compliance of DOLLARS ON THE NET and all the data that we, and therefore you, process.

World Class Customer Support
How much of your customer support time is spent making sure your customers' credit card dollars get to their banks? How much time is spent talking to processing companies to find out what they did with the transactions your software sent? Perhaps you don't spend much time at all; if not, your customers do. Shift4's 24/7 Support Center is dedicated to ensuring that your customers' dollars make it to their banks in a timely and accurate manner. When they need us, we'll be here.

Sales Facilitator
Thousands of diverse merchant enterprises are currently using DOLLARS ON THE NET. Once interfaced, your system can easily be introduced into these environments, with no interruption to the merchant. Your guarantee of a smooth transition gives you tremendous leverage when negotiating sales.

Money Maker
Shift4's partner programs allow you to earn real money for referring customers to Shift4's DOLLARS ON THE NET solution. A variety of programs are available, allowing you to choose the level of involvement and interaction you want in the sale process. Which ever you choose, bringing a client on to Shift4 can earn you a percent of every transaction they make!

Simple Integration
With our free API, application programmers can easily integrate all the payment processing power of DOLLARS ON THE NET right into their own applications. Backed by the complete support of our experienced interface project team, Shift4 makes API development fast and painless.

The DOLLARS ON THE NET API provides all the networking, all the communications, all the card company regulatory compliance, as well as a structured method of interfacing with your application. All you have to do is pass the information and retrieve it when it is returned.

Technically...

1. The information is passed from a buffer in your application and you trigger an interrupt (TCP/IP) or write it to an RS-232 asynchronous port.
2. A request is sent via network (TCP/IP) or cable (RS232) to the PC running DOLLARS ON THE NET.
3. DOLLARS ON THE NET's "approval/transaction processing" subsystem running in the background takes the transaction.
4. Approval is obtained by high-speed connection from the credit card company via a Credit Card Processing Center while DOLLARS ON THE NET runs in the foreground.
5. The transaction is saved for later settlement and passed to the foreground process.
6. Approval information is passed back to the network or port.
7. The network (TCP/IP) or cable (RS232) passes the information back to the originating PC.
8. Your application takes the information from the network and continues.

Available Development Components/Control/APIs Include:

• Cold Fusion/CFX
• Delphi VCL
• TCP/IP API
• IPX/SPX API (Novell NetWare)

Request your copy of Shift4's API document today.