TrustCommerce Announces Enhanced TC Trustee® Merchant Host Payment Solution

Irvine, California, July 15, 2010.  TrustCommerce is pleased to announce TC Trustee Merchant Host which extends the functionality of the TC Trustee TC SMART Product^®. This solution is ideal for merchants looking for a secure, reliable, and seamless online payment processing directly integrated into their environment.

A perfect companion to the TC Trustee hosted payment page solution, TC Trustee Merchant Host is a transparent web application pass through that allows merchants to process payments directly from their web site without ever handling sensitive card holder data. TC Trustee Merchant Host seamlessly integrates into the checkout process of a merchant’s shopping cart, payment page, or other online payment system. Customers enter their credit card data on a form on the merchant’s website, submit the payment form, and the data is seamlessly redirected to the TrustCommerce payment gateway. TrustCommerce stores and transmits the sensitive cardholder data.  This solution gives the merchant full branding and customization capabilities.

Set up couldn’t be simpler. TC Trustee Merchant Host is easy to integrate and supports any language that handles web processing, such as ASP.NET, PHP, and Python. In most cases, installation requires fewer than 30 lines of code.

By completely removing credit card data from the merchant’s environment, TC Trustee Merchant Host empowers merchants to proactively address the ongoing burden of compliance and security. In many cases, the direct cost associated with credit card risk in people, resources and hardware and the cost of a data breach can be insurmountable. Forrester calculates the average security breach can cost a company between $90 and $305 per lost record. TC Trustee Merchant Host delivers comprehensive risk management because it:

•    Dramatically reduces the cost of ongoing compliance/certification
•    Defers the risk of data compromise
•    Defers the risk of payment anomalies
•    Greatly minimizes the threat to brand and business continuity due to lost credibility, damaged brand, lost customer base, and more.

A powerful solution with tremendous flexibility, TC Trustee Merchant Host supports all credit cards, signature debit cards, and ACH payment types. It leverages the dependability, security and performance of the TrustCommerce payment processing platform and is integrated into the TC Vault™ reporting. 

Proven security features include: 2048-bit Encryption, Incoming Data Validation, Merchant Authentication and Credentialing, Fraud Protection Tools for Customer Payments, and PCI/DSS Certified Solution.

TC Trustee Merchant Host is part of the TC Smart Product™ family, which is designed to completely mitigate compliance requirements and the associated risk. These solutions remove, secure, and protect processing data for merchants offering a simple and easy way to address the complicated and expensive PCI requirements.

TC SMART Products include: 
•    TC Trustee Host – a secure hosted payment page.
•    TC Citadel_^® – a secure billing application for recurring, installment, subscription, deferred, and continuity payments.
•    TC POS Vault™ – allows safe processing of face-to-face merchant transactions from the customer swipe.
•    TC Payment Portal ™- lets merchants extend payment acceptance options directly to cardholders through a secure website.

There is no better way to eliminate the cost, threat, and risk associated with accepting electronic payments.

About TrustCommerce
Headquartered in Irvine, California, TrustCommerce provides the payment solution for companies of all sizes--from start ups processing 100 transactions a month, mid-size companies processing 25,000 transactions a month, to Fortune 500 businesses processing millions of transactions per month from multiple locations. We safeguard the merchant-customer relationship by providing speed, security, reliability and a commitment to earn and keep your valued trust.