Setting Up the Forte Gateway

This topic describes how to configure Fusebill for ACH payment processing via the Forte ACH gateway (formerly ACH Direct Payments).

Forte supports Address Verification .

For important considerations when choosing a payment gateway, see Choosing Your Payment Gateway.
To learn how ACH transactions are processed by Fusebill, see Considerations When using ACH/EFT Gateways.
For more information about Forte, visit their website.

To configure your payment gateway:

In Fusebill, navigate to Settings>Collections>Gateways and click Show Other Supported Gateways.
Under "ACH/EFT" click FORTE ACH. The Fusebill configuration pop-up appears.
For Merchant ID, enter the Merchant ID used to login to Forte.
For Transaction Password, , enter the FORTE Processing/Real Time Password that was received with your initial access approval.
If you want to capture address data with the bank account information, enable AvsEnabled .
If you are working in a Forte test environment, ensure Developer Mode is enabled.

Warning

Fusebill will still interpret all transactions as legitimate, so you will need to refund charges made in this mode in order to maintain proper ledger balances in Fusebill.
Click Save.

ACHAddress Verification