Integrated Payment Providers

An Integrated Payment Provider (IPP) is a company that provides services to merchants that outsource a significant portion of their IIAS processes, including eligible product identification, payment integration and receipt management for online merchant clients. For an IPP that wants to provide this service to e-commerce merchants they need to become a SIGIS member and implement the IIAS standard. Requires minimum Tier 3 membership.

Membership in SIGIS offers an IPP access to the following programs:

SIGIS IIAS Transaction and Data Retention Specification

The SIGIS Specification outlines the requirements needed for merchants, acquirers, processors, card issuers and plan administrators to support an IIAS.

IPP IIAS Certification

The key requirement for a company to qualify as an IPP is that the IPP provides and operates all of the following services/systems on behalf of its merchant clients:

  • Item Product Inventory Lookup
  • BIN Lookup
  • Payment card processing

To become IIAS certified, an IPP completes an IPP Self-Assessment Certification Form, technical testing certification by the IPP's acquirer, use of the SIGIS Eligible Product List, and arrangements to support transaction data retention/retrieval. An IPP will not be permitted to claim that it supports IIAS transactions using the SIGIS standard until it has been certified to the IIAS standards developed and approved by SIGIS. Merchants using an IPP will not able to process IIAS transactions until both the IPP and the merchant have completed the certification requirements.

SIGIS provides additional support through our Help Desk that is available to answer any questions regarding the programs listed above.

Related FAQs

SIGIS requires any Integrated Payment Provider (IPP) that uses and supports the SIGIS Technical Specification to pass IIAS transactions to become certified.

Below are the steps to obtain, complete and submit an IPP Certification.

  1. Click the Login and enter login information.
  2. Click the Access IIAS Forms link on the right-hand side of the page.
  3. A new window will open, select the IPP Certification tab.
  4. Complete the form and submit.