With the Bastion Acquiring Gateway (BAG) as the centerpiece of your financial institution’s acquiring system, you can rest easy knowing that your transactions are held in place via a PCI-complaint, secure, and reliable system.

Utilizing a state-of-the-art, modern, scalable architecture, BAG is designed to run 24 x 7, 365 days a year, without interruptions. Service upgrades are applied and integrated into the system on-the-fly, without the need to take the system down, so you can be confident that there will be zero data loss, even while transactions are going through the system.

Using a fully-integrated design, BAG interoperates with the rest of the Bastion Solution Suite, providing real time access to data streamed out from BAG.

Integration made easier with a fully open system
The BAG gateway interoperates with virtually all types of client and merchant systems. You can also choose from systems we provide – JAVA TM, PHP, and Microsoft TM Windows interfaces, and binary libraries, including the universally-accepted HTTPS interface for merchants to use, which greatly simplifies the integration process for them.

We recognize the ISO 8583 financial standards, XML, and other open standards and base our operations on these standards to further facilitate cross-system integration.

And, for your total ease, we provide a team dedicated to assist your system’s integration into the Bastion Acquiring Gateway.

Clearing and settlement security
All clearing and settlement operations performed by BAG are fully-automated. You are assured of layers of security because no human intervention touches the data, and critical data elements we process are encrypted further.

With our service levels, settlement is guaranteed for a 1:1 match for all transactions we process, because each transaction thatruns through our system is matched against the database using heuristically developed rules to determine the best possible record.

Reliability and fault tolerance
All critical elements in the system are redundant and will ensure failover in milliseconds, virtually eliminating any possibility of data loss during any given disaster.

Service and human element
Our Operations Center runs 24 x 7, 365 days a year to support our clients and ensure continuity of transactions, a service which has been proven in the face of several recent natural disasters.