DCACLab is purchased through FastSpring, our authorized reseller and merchant of record. For purchases processed through FastSpring, your district's vendor and payee is FastSpring — a United States company with an address in Santa Barbara, California. FastSpring furnishes IRS Form W-9. Form W-8BEN-E, the certificate of foreign status, does not apply to a US payee.
For purchases processed through FastSpring, the party your district contracts with and pays is FastSpring, not DCACLab — FastSpring is the selling and invoicing entity named in the transaction documents, as our authorized reseller and merchant of record. A separately negotiated institutional agreement may name different contracting parties; your quote will state them. Enter the following on vendor-setup and tax paperwork:
| Payee name |
FS Intermediate Holdings, Inc.
dba Bright Market, LLC dba FastSpring |
|---|---|
| Address | 801 Garden Street, Suite 201, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 |
| Tax residency | United States. FastSpring's California STD 204 Payee Data Record identifies the entity as a California resident. |
| Relationship to DCACLab | Authorized reseller and merchant of record |
These details are published by FastSpring and reproduced here for convenience. DCACLab does not certify FastSpring's tax identity. FastSpring's EIN is on the signed W-9 itself — take it from fastspring.com/w9.pdf or from FastSpring's Trust Center rather than from this page, and verify the entity details there before submitting paperwork.
The same record, formatted for copying onto a vendor packet:
FS Intermediate Holdings, Inc. dba Bright Market, LLC dba FastSpring 801 Garden Street, Suite 201, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
A W-9. The W-8BEN-E does not apply to a US payee. The W-8BEN-E is a Certificate of Foreign Status, required when the payee is a foreign entity. The payee here is FastSpring, a United States company with an address in Santa Barbara, California. DCACLab is not the payee and does not invoice your district, so DCACLab's own location has no bearing on which tax form is required.
FastSpring's support team has confirmed this directly: a W-8 form applies where a US company is purchasing from a non-US provider, and because FastSpring is a US company, what your district needs is FastSpring's W-9.
FastSpring's signed IRS Form W-9 is published at fastspring.com/w9.pdf and can be downloaded directly, without going through DCACLab. Every FastSpring order invoice also carries a link to it, so once an order exists your district can take the form from the invoice itself.
This page reports who the payee is. Your district remains responsible for its own tax and procurement determinations.
All of the documents below are published by FastSpring and signed by FastSpring. Download them from FastSpring's public trust portal. FastSpring's support team notes the portal is not obvious at first: open the Documents box, choose the Public tab, then click View All Documents to list everything available publicly.
DCACLab links to these rather than hosting copies, so what Purchasing receives is always the current version, obtained from the source.
Often, yes. The W-9 and the California STD 204 are already signed and publicly available, so Purchasing may be able to begin vendor setup using the record above — subject to your district's own compliance review, insurance, and supplier-registration requirements.
Where a district's own vendor application form requires a supplier signature, that signature has to come from FastSpring. Send the completed form to [email protected] and we will route it to FastSpring's vendor team and return the signed copy. Turnaround on that signature is FastSpring's, so we do not promise a date.
If your district's system needs FastSpring registered as a supplier, FastSpring documents that process directly on their Set up FastSpring as a Supplier page, which carries their Onboarding Fact Sheet , or contact their B2B team at [email protected].
Districts that need a purchase order do not use the credit-card checkout. Request an itemized quote instead — by email at [email protected] or through the DCACLab quote request form.
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The quote is issued against the FastSpring entity above, so the vendor named on the quote matches the vendor on the W-9 and the purchase order.
Send the issued purchase order to [email protected] and we forward it to FastSpring for fulfilment.
DCACLab publishes a full Data Privacy and Security Policy covering the handling of personally identifiable information, staff understanding of PII confidentiality, incident management and breach notification, data transition, secure destruction, and automated decision-making. It states alignment with FERPA and New York Ed Law §2-d, and maps DCACLab's practices to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
Read the DCACLab Data Privacy and Security Policy. It is written in the form district security assessments ask for. It is also candid about its limits: DCACLab is a small team, and the policy says so rather than claiming uniform maturity.
DCACLab is developed in Amman, Jordan, and has been since it launched in 2009. Purchases are transacted by FastSpring, our authorized reseller and merchant of record, a US company in Santa Barbara, California.
Both facts are accurate and neither changes the other. The vendor your district sets up, contracts with, and pays is the United States entity named above.
Email [email protected] with the specific form or document required and we will obtain it. If it is a document FastSpring holds, we will request it from their vendor team.