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Configuring Vantiv for Batch Processing

Vantiv Online utilizes secure FTP in order to send batch transactions from the client’s servers to the gateway.

You must have access to the following tools:

Note: Make sure you are downloading these tools onto the machine that has a whitelisted IP address to Vantiv or they will not work.

Configuring Vantiv for Batch Processing

To configure Vantiv for batch processing, complete the following steps:

1. Open a command prompt in Admin mode and generate a RSA key for the pre live environment.

   ssh-keygen –t rsa –C “[username]@payments.vantivprelive.com”

2. You will be prompted to specify the storage location for the key and to specify the password to associate with the key. Enter the storage and password information for the key.
3. Connect to Vantiv FTP using FileZilla using the following information:
   Host: payments.vantivprelive.com
   Username and password: provided to you by Vantiv
   Port: 22.
4. Move the public key you created above (*.pub file) to the .ssh directory.
5. Use the following information to connect to Vantiv FTP:

   

6. Return to the cmd console and create a known hosts file to be used with your merchant account settings.ssh-keyscan –t rsa payments.vantivprelive.com>c:\Vantiv\knownHosts

Note: Make sure the value entered for knownHostsFile is the same path to the known hosts file you just created above.

7. When adding the merchant account settings for the merchant accounts using the Vantiv payment gateway, you must enter the pathname to the knowHostsFile you created above in the value field of the Add (or Edit) - Merchant Account Settings pop-up window found in netFORUM. Please take time to consider where these files should live on your production environment.

View the Adding Merchant Account Settings help topic for information on adding merchant account settings. View the Adding the Vantiv Merchant Account Settings help topic for information specific to Vantiv.

8. You must complete these steps for both the prelive and live environments in Vantiv.

Once this has been configured for all of your Vantiv merchant accounts, you will be able to send and receive files from Vantiv via sFTP.