Payments

What are Payments?

Payments describes the services that manage government payments. It includes incoming and outgoing payments to individuals, businesses and authorised representatives.

Objectives

To centralise all payments management processes into a single, digital platform to increase efficiency and reduce complexity for government service delivery.

Policy Elements

Policy:

POL9

Payments policy (Position) Mandate:

Unendorsed

Status:

Consulting

Avoid investments in new or standalone payments solutions

Reuse existing investment in payments

Domains

This capability is part of the following domain.

DOM3

Government Service Delivery

Policies

The following policies have requirements that impact this capability.

Payments policy (Position)

POL9

Mandate: Unendorsed

Status: Consulting

Designs

The following designs include examples of how digital solutions in this capability can be delivered.

Government EasyPay

DES86

Government EasyPay is a telephone and Internet collection service available to Australian Government agencies

The Revenue Receipting Platform is an inbound payments platform designed to receive payments and temporary payments on a large scale, with repayment refunds, pay later billing, POS, EFTPOS, direct debit and the reversal capabilities. The Revenue Receipting Platform is intended for reuse by other…

Single Touch Payroll

DES62

Single Touch Payroll (STP), is an Australian Government initiative to reduce employers' reporting burdens to government agencies With STP, you report employees' payroll information to us each time you pay them through STP-enabled software. Payroll information includes: salaries and wages; pay as…

National COVID-19 Vaccine Program Integration

DES56

Program to integrate COVID-specific IT systems with Health IT systems.

Payment Utility

DES45

The Payment Utility is a payments platform designed to deliver payment services at a large scale, with receivables and deductions management capabilities

Payments In

DES100

Payments In enables people to pay government agencies using their preferred payment method. Agencies will be able to receive paid invoices and reports without having to manage differing and multiple payment types. System has been retired by the DTA and is no longer available for Reuse.