GOV.UK Pay (Blue Badge only)

Central Government is becoming smarter. It has recognised that there are common functions provided in local government and it makes sense for these to be commoditised to enable reuse across departments and across local government. To that end they've built dedicated functions to:

• Take payments

• Issue notifications (email/SMS/letters)

• Confirm someone's identity.

These are the PAY, NOTIFY, VERIFY, services respectively. In this Blue Badge platform, IEG4 has already integrated to both PAY and NOTIFY and our intention is to leverage these wherever logical across other of our products.

So, we've built in the ability to fully integrate to GOV.UK PAY.

Setting GOV.UK PAY up

The only technical element to this process is to add your council's API reference key as provided by GOV.UK PAY. You access these within your GOV.UK PAY account. You can create an account here if your council has not already done so.

Important

The thing to also be aware of is that we need to set your payment preference to GOV.UK PAY. So if you wish to use this function please tell us at Integration time.

Therefore, for Blue Badge only, this system links directly to GOV.UK Pay (if it's available to you) but to have access to it we require an access Id. Once you have supplied this, we can then take payments using GOV.UK PAY through our self-serve portal and directly from the DfT if the Badge has been paid for at the application stage.

Payments can be made via GOV.UK Pay or inputted manually via the Payment stage within the associated workflow. The user can select a payment to view further information such as Refund, & Payment status. Payments can be refunded by selecting refund.

Important

Only payments made via GOV.UK Pay can be refunded.