Internship at Veritrans Bandung - Week 1
Hey, it's been a week past since the first day of my internship at Veritrans Bandung! Anyway, I'm having the internship here together with the Informatics students which are Michael Ingga Gunawan, Azalea Fisitania, Destra Bintang Perkasa, and Sonny Theo Manurung. So, I'd like to share about what I've had for the past weekdays.
Well, maybe many of you who read this thread would really ask the same question, what is Veritrans? Haven't actually heard about it, have you? Yeah, It's just the same as I was when I first applied for my internship at this company. Actually, I was so desperate at that time since I didn't get any confirmation from the company that I had applied the internship before (which were Accenture, Pertamina, Telkom, BRI, and GDP). It's 5 companies that I've been applied but none of them give any confirmation and it's almost a month left until the internship begins! Well, then I decided to apply whichever company I could apply at that time which is Veritrans.
Life at Veritrans - What will you get?
I could say that I was very lucky being approved here as an intern. Why? First, it's because the office was located in Ciumbuleuit, Bandung and it's very near to my house rent that I could even go there just by walking! Second, it gives us stipend around 200k/day (which means 4 million IDR per month only for an intern)! A big tip for an intern actually :p! Lastly, the working environment here is very nice! I remembered when I was being called for the interview at the office, some of the employees there are playing Counter Strike! Well, maybe It's not really a popular company since it was a new company in Indonesia which was established in 2012. But as people said, "don't judge the company (book) by it's popularity (cover)". Actually, Veritrans is a professional company from Japan and now the company is having a great profit in Indonesia! That's the reason they dared to pay us a lot, Isn't it?
So, what is Veritrans actually? What is the main business of the company? Well, Veritrans (which is the product of PT. Midtrans) is an online gate payment provider in Indonesia. In other words, you could say Veritrans as an IT company which provides a simple way for merchants to make online transactions. PT. Midtrans was a joint venture company among Midplaza Holdings, Japan Veritrans, and Netprice. Some of their clients are Blitzmegaplex, Rakuten Indonesia, Berrybenka, Biznet and many other e-Commerce company in Indonesia. Now, Veritrans has more than a hundred of merchants with almost 70 billion of online transactions in a month! Could you believe that?
2-3 June 2014 (Day of Introductions)
Well, like many other internship students at other companies, the first day of our internship was filled with introduction. Anyway, since Veritrans Bandung is a branch from Veritrans Indonesia at Jakarta, so, on every Monday, at 10 a.m, we'll be having a meeting with the employee at Jakarta through Skype to review our mission within the week. Actually it's their way since they uses Scrum Software Development Method. After that, we were given some mission to do within 2 days which were :
Learn from codeschool.com :"Try GIT" and "GIT Real"
Get to know about Veritrans's product in https://veritrans.co.id. Know the difference between VT-Direct, VT-Web and VT-Link
Read about Fraud from https://j.mp/paymentSecurity, at least chapter 1 and 2.
So, for the first and second days it's all about learning using github, getting to know more about the company especially the products, and reading an e-book about credit cards payment and fraud.
4-6 June 2014 (Another days of Introductions)
Well, this time we were given tasks to use the Payment API from Veritrans. So, we were pretending as merchants who want to use the products of Veritrans. As I had said before, Veritrans provides merchants a simple way to do online transactions. This simple way is given through the Veritrans' Payment API for any merchants to use. So, the merchants don't have to make the payment gateway from scratch -- Veritrans has done all the code for them! Amazing isn't it?
Veritrans has two products for online gate payment which are VT-Web and VT-Direct. What's the differences? The payment process in VT-Web will all be redirected to the website that Veritrans has already provided. Whileas, VT-Direct will be all be processed through the merchants website. Well you can see the details here : www.veritrans.co.id
So, why should merchants use Veritrans Payment API instead of making their own payment gateway for their transactions? Well, here are some reasons :
Each bank that provides online transaction uses a different method of web service, so we need to use different codes to connect into each method of payments. By using the Veritrans API, all method of payments from the banks were integrated into one. So, merchants would only set up once for all method of payments through the Veritrans Payment API.
Veritrans has Fraud Detection System (FDS) that could identify a fraud potential on the transaction. So it will keep all of your online transaction safely.
Veritrans provides a Merchant Application Portal (MAP) in which merchants could manage and control their transactions.
And actually there are many more features that Veritrans provides, which you can see from its own website.
So that's all about my first week of internship at Veritrans. Hope all of you enjoy your work during the internship! XD
