FAQs: Payments to MIT

It is against Institute policy for an organization to open a bank account with an independent bank using MIT’s name or tax ID number. For any banking issues or concerns, contact VPF Accounts Receivable for assistance.

Please email chargemit@mit.edu and be sure to include your merchant name and your user name.

Click on the “I forgot my password” link on TrustKeeper’s home page.

Please contact the POS Help Desk. Their number is located on the side of your POS machine.

Process the transaction and immediately delete the message from your email and from your Deleted Items folder. Discourage customers from submitting credit card information via non-secure methods.

No, you must submit all requests through the chargemit-help@mit.edu and follow the MIT Policies and Procedures.

1. Verify that the customer is indeed due a credit.
2. Fill out a Request for Payment.

Send an email to chargemit-help@mit.edu with the person’s name, email address, and the appropriate action you want, for example, add a new employee, delete an employee’s record, or add an employee’s new role. Include the reason the person needs that role.

Note: The Manager/No Entry Manager role has the ability to process credits on credit cards; the Order Entry/No Entry Clerical role does not.

If you have complex requirements involving multiple products (e.g., discounting), MIT has approved Monster Commerce as the shopping cart solution. There is a monthly fee for this service.

If you only have a few products, your developer can summarize the total costs and pass this total amount to Cybersource using Secure Acceptance.

If your merchant account has been setup to require CVV/CNV, then no, you cannot accept the older card.

A credit is a refund. You are giving money back to the customer and a credit will appear on the monthly statement.

A void is an internal mistake that is corrected on the same day before it has settled at the bank. The customer will not see a charge or a credit on his or her credit card statement.

On web orders utilizing the Secure Acceptance you can receive an email notifying you that someone placed an order.

Note: Virtual terminal transactions do not automatically send an email to the merchant.

If you want to do your own secure shredding, you need a ‘cross-cut’ shredder (also called ‘confetti cut’ or ‘diamond cut’) . Such shredders generate small pieces of paper, vs. strips. Strips of paper can, in theory, be reassembled and reveal their secrets. The cross cut shredded paper is sufficiently secure that it can be put in MIT's paper recycling bins.

Fellowes makes a number of shredders ranging from ‘personal’ (which can also work well in offices with low volume shredding requirements) up through large volume shredders. Fellowes personal shredders can be found under $100, and are generally reliable and should last at least 2 years, many times longer. Fellowes has small office shredders under $200. There have been several reports of significant reliability problems with the Office Depot brand shredder (Ativa). The Office Depot web site has a nice ability to compare shredders (or other products.)

If you'd rather have someone else do the shredding, consider going with a National Association for Information Destruction (NAID) certified vendor such as Shred-It. Iron Mountain is another alternative — they use the NAID standards, and have very attractive pricing for higher education.

In either case, they will provide the shredding bins. They charge when they take the bin away (and give you an empty one). You will receive a certificate that they have taken the materials and a certificate of destruction when they have physically destroyed the materials. Both have trucks that can shred on-site — this service costs more and, given their security standards, is not materially more secure than the offsite shredding.

Shred It contact info:

Tarryl Knight
1 Wall Street
Hudson, NH 03051
617-917-7013
Tarryl.Knight@STERICYCLE.com

shreditcare@stericycle.com
www.shredit.com

Iron Mountain contact info:

Jordan Laflamme
Business Development Executive
Iron Mountain, Records & Information Management
96 High Street
Billerica, MA 01862
Phone: (978)-430-1358
Jordan.Laflamme@IronMountain.com
www.ironmountain.com

Send an email to chargemit-help@mit.edu with the merchant’s name, merchant’s account number, and the financial account you want the revenue to be deposited to.

The credit card authorization puts a hold on the cardholders funds until you process the settlement. The authorization will expire automatically with the card issuer typically within 7-10 days depending on the issuer's policy. Cardholders do not see a "charge" on their account; they are likely looking at an online banking statement and they see the amount has been moved from their available balance and that the transactions is pending, but the funds themselves are not removed from the customer's account.

To reverse an authorization before it expires:
* The cardholder should contact the card-issuing bank by phone. If you provide the card-issuer the authorization code, the card-issuer may be able to release it.
* You would need to work with your Merchant Bank Representative or the customer to gain the card-issuing bank's contact information. The 800 number on the back of the card should suffice. Please note that the customer will first need to give his/her bank approval to speak with you.
* Not all card issuers will pre-release the authorizations. Each card-issuer has its own policy on authorization reversals. This is why authorization reversals are not an automated process and we cannot guarantee the success of the authorization reversal.

If that card is a Rewards or Corporate card (e.g., L.L. Bean, Delta), the merchant will pay an extra fee to accept it. Read more about the costs.

Email wire-transfers@mit.edu with the name of the company, the amount you are expecting, and the cost object and GL you’d like this deposited into.

Medicare and Medex do not cover this charge. The patient/retiree is responsible for this co-pay for eye care services rendered.

Please pay online or send payment to:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Accounts Receivable NE49-3000
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

Yes, email accounts-receivable@mit.edu and let us know if you are paid semimonthly or weekly and the amount you’d like deducted each pay period, or simply complete the top portion of your invoice and mail it back to:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Accounts Receivable NE49-3100
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

It depends. Some items are tax-exempt in Massachusetts. However, these same items may be taxable in another state. If your DLC is considering selling goods contact Naziat Adnan or Rebecca Menin at VPF Tax and Global Operations for information on how to collect and remit sales tax.