Financial Systems

The UAA Financial Systems Office serves the University of Alaska Anchorage by implementing Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards at UAA. Additionally, Financial Systems assists in opening and guiding individual TouchNet stores for departments and campus organizations, giving wide range of options and opportunity for UAA to accept payment for products and or services. Financial Systems also assists UAA staff with navigating and understanding Vista Plus and QMenu, an online report management tool. 

Training can be completed by the Financial Services Team by request. Please visit our employee intranet for resources and to complete our training request form. Our group trainings can consist of the following: Banner Finance Querying, Completing a Banner Requisition, Vista Plus/QMenu and Toad. 

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The University of Alaska Anchorage uses OnBase Enterprise Content Management (ECM) as the primary digital storage location for records and official University documents. The creation, maintenance as well as the deletion of these documents must comply by University Policy & Regulations set by the Board of Regents. All documents that are stored in OnBase have to be assigned to a specific doctype. The specific doctype determines access permissions and workflow of those documents. Documents can be scanned and uploaded for the purpose of reducing physical documentation held at the University. Staff members can use OnBase to find scanned versions of incoming checks and or journal vouchers.

UAA Staff members can access the OnBase system through the following ways: 

    1. OnBase Web Client - The web client can be used primarily for searching for documents. Staff members should use their UA username and password to access the OnBase Web Client interface. 
    2. OnBase Unity Client - The Unity Client can be downloaded from the OnBase Landing Page. Follow the download instructions in order to access the application on your local computer.

For more information about the OnBase system and or training and install instructions, visit the Records and Information Management site. 

  Access OnBase Landing Page

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) is a security standard council with the goal of managing the ongoing evolution of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. The council consists of Visa, Master card, American Express, JCB International and Discover. For organizations accepting or processing payments, these standards set the operational and technical requirements. The University of Alaska Anchorage is committed to complying by PCI standards in order to maximize data security and ensure payment card transactions are processed in compliance with the latest PCI Data Security Standard. UAA is also required to follow Administrative Policy created by the University of Alaska regarding Payment Card Industry. 

Departments are not permitted to transmit, process, or store payment card (either credit or debit card) information on University Computers, Servers, Workstations, or on other electronic media (Email, Internet, Fax Machines, CD/DVD media, or flash drives). When cardholders visit university online sites they must be redirected to a PCI compliant (University approved) third party site to transmit, process, or store the payment card information, or be processed with applications adopted and supported by the University of Alaska.

More information can be found on the University of Alaska Compliance Page.

All University employees accepting card payments or accessing systems such as Touchnet that accept credit card payments must complete the PCI Training on PageUp. Employees can find the required training by going to PageUp > My community > Learning library > search "PCI" and complete the Protecting Payment Card Information training.

  Access UA Compliance Page

The University of Alaska Anchorage uses TouchNet as a third party framework for enterprise-wide eCommerce sites. It is used by campus departments and organizations to create, manage and operate online stores with integrated payment options. TouchNet Marketplace is a user-friendly way to create shopping carts, and custom storefronts for on-campus merchants. TouchNet has hundreds of partners that work directly with their system, that departments and organizations can further look at for their own specification. TouchNet uses procure-to-pay software, which integrates purchasing and accounts payable systems to create greater efficiencies. 

If an UAA department or organization would like to use TouchNet services, they will need to send an inquiry to the Director of Financial Services, Brian deZeeuw btdezeeuw@alaska.edu. Further conferences will consist of understanding the system, compliance and policy, along with client expectations.

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Location

Eugene F. Short Hall, Suites 102 & 204
2601 Providence Drive
Anchorage, AK 99508
 

Mailing Address

UAA Financial Services
PO Box 141609
Anchorage, AK 99514-1609