one university payment gateway for university of waikato

A presentation given at Tertiary ICT conference in 2014 for the Microsoft Tertiary ICT Excellence Awards - technology delivery. University of Waikato implemented a pan-university payment gateway in November 2013. The aim of the project was to develop a generic online payment system which can be used by any operational area of the university. The benefits of this project were: 1. Progressing the University on the path toward a cashless campus. 2. Providing students with an alternative payment method other than credit cards. 3. Reconciliation – introducing a central point from which payment information is sent to Oracle Financials for auto-reconciliation. 4. Providing a central payment gateway for all University services. Technically the solution utilises the Oracle SOA technology stack, exposing a web service which can be called to open the online payment system for the credit card and bank transfer service providers. Web components were developed with WebLogic BPEL. Mid-2014 the benefits are starting to be realised, with 8674 transactions this year and more than ten different developments using our gateway from different areas of the University and external parties on behalf of University parties, all using vastly different technologies. This presentation will outline this project; the drivers, the lessons learnt, the successes, the failures and what our future plans are for our online payment gateway.