1. Rapid Connect® Getting Started
What to expect with your Rapid Connect Certification
March 2016

2. Agenda Getting Started Contacts and Engagement
Registering in the RC Website – Approval process
Contacts and Engagement
GPM Integrated Partner Manager
Rapid Connect Certification Analyst
Rapid Connect Life Cycle
5 stages of a project
Projects
Creating a Project
Example SDK and what materials will be generated and how to use them
Sandbox introduction and use
Certification complete – Now what?

3. Rapid Connect® Getting Started is Easy
Right click here to view video to see how Rapid Connect can make a positive impact to your business

4. Signing up for Rapid Connect is Easy!
How do I get access to Rapid Connect?
Signing up for Rapid Connect is Easy!
Go to
Click on the ‘Sign Up’ button
Enter contact Info and select ‘Application Developer’
Once activated by the Rapid Connect administrator (next slide), your user name and temporary password will be ed to you
The first time you login, you’ll be asked to reset your password and set up Security questions
You are ready to go!

5. Contacts and Engagement
Resources during your Rapid Connect Project
Integrated Partner Management Team
When a user from a new company registers in Rapid Connect, the
Rapid Connect Administrator contacts the user to set up the company profile.
An Integrated Partner Management resource is assigned to each Rapid Connect
project.
This resource will be the liaison with First Data for your certification and will
review and activate your project once created.
Certification Analyst
Once your project is activated, a Rapid Connect Certification analyst will be assigned.
Your Rapid Connect Certification analyst will be your resource for technical questions
about you project, SDK and Sandbox testing
For Merchant Developers
The name of your RM or IM will be needed prior to activation your Relationship
and/or Implementation Manager will assist you with your full implementation.

6. Creating a Project
Make sure to update the title line in the footer. To do this, simply:
Click on View
Click Side Master
Edit the title line in the footer. Note: you will need to make the edit on each slide in the “master”. This should take less than 5 minutes.

7. Click on the Create New Project Link to begin your certification to First Data through Rapid Connect

8. Web Portal – Enables project creation and customization

9. Select relevant parameters

10. Click Submit and the project gets sent for approval

11. Open projects are then added to the client dashboard

12. After the project has been moved to Development, you will be able to download your SDK
Read the Start Here document to for additional details on the Project Lifecycle and SDK contents.
The Certification scripts will be the transactions you will run based on the parameters selected when creating your project.
The SDK also contains your customized Rapid Connect spec (“UMF”) and Quick Reference Guides.

13. Sandbox Real Time Testing

14. Navigate to the Sandbox to view transactions that were run against your Certification scripts

15. Project Lifecycle

16. Rapid Connect Project Lifecycle
Certification
Pending
Development
Review
Accepted
Complete
Initial Phase when you initially create your project
Once we have verified that your project is valid, it will be activated.
Download SDK
Do Development & Testing
All transactions are PASS status
TOR Testing
Auto-Cert window is 72 hours
Run all required test script transactions
Click on ‘View validation Report’ link to view result
If all pass, automatically promoted to review phase
If not, you’ll need to make any corrections & run the entire test script again.
Work with your RC Cert Analyst on any manual review items such as receipts (as required)
Any other specialized verification
Your PCI or PA-DSS Validation will be verified
Any other outstanding business requirements are met
Your project is queued for production
In production within 2 hours 1 2 3 4 5 6

17. Your project is Complete… now what?
Merchants can be boarded by the merchant's acquirer to one of First Data’s Rapid Connect supported platforms (Nashville, Cardnet, Buypass).
Merchants that have been boarded can start processing 2 hours after your project is moved to Complete.
Reporting and settlement is performed by the First Data front-end/back-end platforms so merchants reporting and settlement doesn’t change. (* if using the same FE/BE platform)

18. Thank you.