E-Commerce

Options exist for Northwestern Law groups who would like to accept online credit card payments (conduct ecommerce). This program is overseen by the Northwestern's Bursar's office. Note that this system cannot be used to accept donations.

Getting an ecommerce site:

  1. The process, briefly, will consist of reviewing the Northwestern University Online Event Registration Packet (located at the bottom of the page under 'Resources'), completing the application form within it, and sending it to Law Administrative Services for approval. You should, while waiting for approval, create a draft of your registration form if it does not already exist.
    The Forms and Surveys page has a list of questions to help you begin to build your form.
  2. Upon approval, Law Information Technology will be notified and the web developers will work with you on finalizing and building your registration form.
  3. Once your form is live, your department will be given access to monitor incoming registrations and process refunds.

For further information, please see the Overview, below, or contact the law school web administrator at law-website@law.northwestern.edu.

Overview
(Excerpt from the Bursar's guide)

As a top university, Northwestern departments host hundreds of events every year. For larger events that would like to accept online credit card payments, Northwestern has established a relationship with Certain Software, maker of Certain Registration. This relationship allows the University to provide departments with greatly discounted access to the Certain online registration application, reduced merchant account setup costs, and minimized PCI requirements.

Who can participate?

Any Northwestern department that will be hosting an event featuring online registration and online credit card payments can participate in the program.

Benefits

Certain Registration is comprehensive online event registration service which allows event organizers great flexibility in every step of the event registration process. Certain Registration can be used to manage any size event. Simple events can get up and running very quickly while larger more involved events can create robust one stop registration sites using advanced features such as housing, travel, and program management.

Features:

  • Attendee badge creation
  • Dynamic attendee email lists
  • Flexible reporting
  • Program management, including session attendance limits, wait lists, and session pricing
  • Tiered pricing, early bird, standard, and late registration

A more complete listing of all Certain Registration features is available at Certain's website.