GW Marketplace is the eCommerce online payment portal for card acceptance for the GW community. Powered by Touchnet, the GW Marketplace makes it easy for departments and campus organizations to manage and operate online storefronts, registration sites and secure payment portals with minimal training and seamless financial integration.

Another advantage offered by the GW eCommerce platform is its integration with the university's EAS accounting system.  This integration eliminates the requirement of journal entries to report the day's revenue and deposit activity.  All activity transacted via a GW eCommerce storefront is automatically posted to the account and organization chosen by the storefront owner (departments, campus organizations, and other campus merchants).

There are no administrative fees assessed to the storefront owners by the Finance Division to use this service.  GW accepts the card brands VISA, MasterCard, Discover and AMEX. These card brands, along with First Data – GW’s payment card processor, impose interchange fees for using their payment networks. For each customer card transaction processed, the merchant (GW) is charged a processing fee averaging 2.75 percent. These processing fees will be allocated to your School or Division organization code and any further allocation of those costs are at the discretion of the School or Division leadership.  

Marketplace sites are intended for use by the customer only. Due to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) GW staff are prohibited from entering customer cardholder data for the customer.

Please allow 3-4 weeks for creation of your site.  Your site will be configured first in our TEST environment and once approved by you and your team, will be re-created in our PRODUCTION environment.  Gathering requirements is an integral part of this process.  We make every effort to deliver your site in a timely fashion.  

Please fill out the form as completely as you can, this will save time emailing back and forth gathering the requirements.