Overview
As part of the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), new requirements for authenticating online payments were introduced. It includes the requirement known as Strong Customer Authentication (SCA). With SCA, there is an additional and mandatory step before authorisation and capture: authentication. This step helps protect customers by preventing fraud and making online and contactless offline payments more secure.
These are mandated to be enforced as part of the security changes and will be implemented in our payment service system on June 21, 2022.
We make use of a global leader in credit card processing in Stripe, which ensures we uphold the strictest of PCI-DSS standards globally. Visit this link for more information about the new updates: https://stripe.com/en-au/guides/strong-customer-authentication#introduction
The new payment system service covers the following:
New payment methods
Processing and Display of Charges and Refunds
There is a transition period of about three months, with the final date to be confirmed, for cards to naturally be transitioned from the existing service to the new payment service. Users that have not re-entered their credit card can still proceed to make bookings. There will be communication at around the end of July, start of August to those users who have not yet made a change to their credit card to take action in the coming weeks.
On the final transition date, any cards that have not been processed to the new method will have their card removed from their profile and the next time a booking is requested using the card payment method, a card will need to be entered.
All cards being added for existing or new profiles will be processed via the new service. Those that have not been through the new service will display a message in the operations portal in the user's profile as well as the booking request confirmation as shown below.
Hovering over the alert icon the message displays
During the booking process the message below will be displayed, it will not stop the booking from proceeding. After the booking has been created going back to update the user profile is the recommended process to follow.
What Should I do in the Operations Portal
Operations portal agents can take the action to explain they wish to update their credit card in the system with the latest security feature and as we don't store the credit card would need to confirm the details with the user and potentially explain in more detail why.
The user's profile should be updated with the appropriate credit card by adding a new record. Then existing card record should be removed. See the tutorial below for details of how to complete this.
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Here's an interactive tutorial
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Here's an interactive tutorial
** Best experienced in Full Screen (click the icon in the top right corner before you begin) **
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