Enabling Online Sales with Secure Payments for Irish State Education Agency

Business Challenge 

With thousands of students, learners, and educators using Agency’s services to achieve their educational goals, our client needed to develop a solution which would allow its customers to pay for the verification of their education awards and certificates, certificate replacement, etc.: 

• Provide an efficient, accurate, and quick money transfer process with a modern end-to-end solution  
• Ensure the top levels of stability and performance of the system  
• Implement the best possible levels of privacy and reliability of the platform in coherence with the latest EU-wide regulations  

Solution  

We developed a user-friendly solution based on the cutting-edge Microsoft cloud technologies to ensure unparalleled levels of scalability, performance, and security, which would allow the Agency’s customers to pay for the previously mentioned services: 

• Developed an efficient solution based on the Microsoft Azure platform 
• Automated common manual tasks for business users and agency’s customers 
• Complex serverless architecture for quick automated payments processing 
• Integration of Secure Hosted Payment Page (HPP) gateway plugin by Global Payments, an international provider of online payment solutions, for additional privacy of end-users and a customized look and feel of payment form in accordance with the agency’s branding 
• Implemented the best security practices, such as the 3-D Secure protocol and PSD2 
• Full security compliance with European standards and regulations, including ISO and GDPR 
• Integration with an internal processing system to handle requests in accordance with the Agency’s business processes.  

Technologies & Tools 

• Azure and related services 
• Microservices 
• .NET Core 
• Angular 
• ASP.NET Core 
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM 
• Realex Payments API Server 
• Azure Web App 
• Azure Web Jobs 
• Azure Service Bus 
• AppInsight 
• Azure Blob 
• Azure Table 
• DevOps 

Business Value 

The solution fully addresses the needs of thousands of the Agency’s customers who can easily pay for the services with instant and accurate online payments available on the go. The solution presents multifold benefits:  

• Improved operational efficiency with accelerated workflow for business-users  
• Full customization suited to the business model of the client  
• Optimized and available for all operational systems and handheld devices  
• A quick deployment process without downtimes  
• The secure and transparent service for end-users  
• Reduced maintenance load and costs