Tuesday 6 January 2009
The Big Oxford Computer Co. Ltd.
Oxford City Council (OCC) is a district council that provides a wide range of services for approximately 149,000 residents, 83,000 people who work in Oxford, and 7.5 million people who visit the city every year.
http://www.oxford.gov.uk/oxonoline/
To integrate the 3-D Secure standard for the existing OCC online payment facilities (also previously developed by BOCC) via their website.
3-D Secure is the new technical standard (that came in to force on 30th June 2007) developed by Visa and MasterCard to help improve online transaction security. MasterCard have implemented their version of 3-D Secure, called 'MasterCard SecureCode', while Visa have called their brand 'Verified by Visa'.
BOCC has recently undertaken the integration of 3-D Secure for a number of our clients who provide online payment facilities via their websites. BOCC has updated several of our local authority client websites, including Oxford City Council, London Borough of Camden, and Stratford-on-Avon District Council; as well as membership organisations such as Trade Unions Congress (TUC) and Oil and Gas UK to comply with this new requirement.
BOCC has integrated the new 3-D Secure requirement for existing payment authenticators, including DataCash and BarclayCard.
For example, instead of installing and integrating new software with the existing online payments system for Oxford City Council, BOCC was able to use an extension to the DataCash Payment Gateway using their updated API.
The system utilises: