What Payment Methods Are Supported?
Premium purchases for your IT or security certification exam are settled through a single online payment gateway that accepts a Credit Card, a Debit Card, or PayPal. It is one secure checkout rather than a menu of separate processors — you pick the instrument you want to pay with, and the gateway handles the transaction from there.
You will need to be signed in to your EduSum account to reach the checkout, since a Premium exam is tied to the account that buys it. Beyond choosing your instrument, there is one setting on a card worth checking before you pay.
Enabling International Payments for Your IT Exam
A Credit Card or Debit Card used at the checkout has to be cleared for an international transaction. This trips people up more than the payment itself: many issuers block cross-border or unusually located charges by default as a fraud control — the same pattern a security professional reads as an anomalous-location signal rather than proof of compromise. A perfectly legitimate purchase can be declined simply because the card has never been used abroad. If a card is refused, the quickest fix is usually to enable international payments with your bank, or to pay with PayPal instead. How the amount is worked out when your card is not billed in US dollars is covered in How Do I Pay If My Card Is Not in US Dollars?
In short, one gateway takes a Credit Card, a Debit Card, or PayPal for your IT certification Premium purchase. A card just needs to be enabled for international transactions, and PayPal is there as the alternative if it is not.
