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Common Payment Service

The Common Payment Service (CPS) is a gateway service provided by the OSC through the Office of Information Technology Services (ITS), available to a participant of one or both of the two Master Services Agreements (MSAs) that OSC offers to support electronic payments. The two statewide MSAs provide services for “EFT/ACH processing” and “Merchant Card processing.” The CPS gateway provides transmissions of transactions to either Wachovia Bank (ACH transactions), or to SunTrust Merchant Services (merchant card transactions). Following is information about CPS and enrollment instructions.