Accreditation


  • Fully Approved Payment Processor: Sage Payment Solutions is powered by Protx, a fully approved payment processor with all major UK acquiring banks.

  • Payment Card Industry Standards (PCI): Protx is level 1 compliant under this scheme. Please view our PCI certificate

  • Audits: Protx is audited by an independent company to ensure that we are up-to-date with the latest encryption and security standards and that we comply with the stringent standards set out by the card schemes.


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Security


Sage Payment Solutions is powered by Protx, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sage. As a Payment Service Provider, thousands of businesses outsource their transaction security to Protx. It is our top priority to ensure that transaction data is kept secure at all times.


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Transaction security


All transaction information passed between Sage 50 Accounts and Sage Payment Solutions is encrypted using 128-bit SSL certificates. No cardholder information is ever passed unencrypted and is signed using MD5 hashing to prevent tampering. You can be completely secure in the knowledge that nothing you pass to the Protx servers can be examined, used or modified by any third parties attempting to gain access to sensitive information.


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Encryption and Data Storage


Once on our systems, all sensitive data is secured using the same internationally recognised 256-bit encryption standards used by, among others, the US Government. The encryption keys are held on state-of-the-art, tamper proof systems in the same family as those used to secure VeriSign's Global Root certificate, making them all but impossible to extract. The data we hold is extremely secure and we are regularly audited by the banks and banking authorities to ensure it remains so.


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Links to banks


Sage Payment Solutions has multiple private links into the banking network that are completely separate from the Internet which do not cross any publicly accessible networks. Any cardholder information sent to the banks and any authorisation message coming back is secure and cannot be tampered with.


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Employee access


No individuals within Protx (trading as Sage Payment Solutions) are able to decrypt transaction information or cardholder data. Our systems only allow access to our most senior staff and only in extenuating circumstances (such as investigations of Card Fraud by the Police). Your transaction information and customer card information is secure even from our own employees because our systems never display the full card numbers, even on administration screens.