Organization

Acquiris Organization

Acquiris is a dedicated organization built around the following principles:

Member based organization (acquirers, processors, vendors, stakeholders)
Membership gives access to specification licenses
No license charges
Cost sharing
Open governance
Central management of essential data

Objectives

To centralize the ownership and licensing of the Intellectual Property Rights linked to the C-TAP terminal specifications in order to allow a controlled evolution in line with open governance principles.

Governance

The General Assembly groups principal and associate members and is the main decision body for the Organization and is empowered to take all decisions.

Membership

Members

This lists the current members of Acquiris, their roles and membership type. Possible roles are Sender of C-TAP transactions (terminal vendor (TV)), Receiver of C-TAP transactions (Acquirer Host/Processor (AH), and other Stakeholders (OS)). Their membership type is defined by their type of activity, Principal Members have implemented the C-TAP specifications (either on terminals or on acquiring hosts), Associate Members have not implemented C-TAP, but are stakeholders in the C-TAP community, and Observers are interested parties active in the payment industry (but having no voting rights in Acquiris).