The Electronic Revenue (eRev) program enables Commonwealth of Massachusetts eligible entities to accept online payments like credit and debit cards (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and Amex), ACH, and mobile wallet. In addition, point-of-sale terminal hardware and kiosks are available.
These services are available through statewide contracts negotiated by the Office of the Comptroller.
eRev can help your organization prioritize customer convenience, experience, and compliance. These low-cost or no-cost options and solutions can reduce or eliminate agencies’ paper check handling.
Accounting, reconciliation, and reporting becomes easier with payments integrated into mission critical processes and systems. And many state finance processes can be automated, including Treasury sweep accounts, cash receipts, and revenue source allocation processing in MMARS.
Organizations seeking to participate should contact [email protected] to get started. The Office of the Comptroller will meet with your organization to learn about your needs and provide guidance.
EMAIL USWith statewide contracts, there is no need to bid separately for Electronic Revenue (eRev) program services. Statewide contracts are an easy way to obtain impactful benefits for your organization by leveraging the buying power, solicitation progress, contracting experience, and vendor management and oversight of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The statewide contracts provide your organization access to competitive rates.
Eligilbe entities may fund online or Interactive Voice Response (IVR) payment programs by direct bill or convenience fees passed onto customers. For point of sale/cashier implementations, eligible entities must absorb/pay vendor fees for these services. What is the applicable authority for eRev services?
The statewide contracts for eRev reservices are authorized as follows:
A full suite of compliance audits, quality assurance reviews, and testing for Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance, to protect personally identifiable information and other sensitive data. Data Security compliance helps merchant Eligible Entities improve the safekeeping of cardholder information by tightening overall security standards and information management to minimize system and protocol vulnerabilities and ensure the security of the Commonwealth’s e-commerce applications. This will reduce the chance of breaches, fraud, and financial loss.
Worldpay has been awarded the PRF81 statewide contract for Visa, MasterCard, Discover, debit, and ACH processing, as well as associated hardware.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts eligible entities may leverage this contract to engage the selected vendor that best meets their requirements for web payment page hosting, Integrated Voice Response (IVR) hosting, and other integrated payment channels and methods such as kiosk or mobile. Credit, debit, and ACH transactions may be facilitated through the services of these payment solutions vendors: Catalis, Grant Street Group, PayIT, and Tyler Technologies. The electronic payment solutions can be configured to integrate with the Commonwealth’s primary financial system (MMARS) and other business or financial systems as specified. Commonwealth entities may choose to implement some or all available payment channels and methods according to their respective business requirements.
The Office of the Comptroller has negotiated a statewide contract to make debt collection easy and cost-effective for Commonwealth of Massachusetts state, quasi-state, and local government organizations.
VISIT PAGEThe Commonwealth satisfies debts owed to the state by offsetting payments from the Massachusetts Management and Accounting Reporting System (MMARS) disbursement process, the Massachusetts Department of Revenue’s tax refund system, and the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission winning payouts over $600.
VISIT PAGEThe PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) is a global forum that brings together payments industry stakeholders to develop and drive adoption of data security standards and resources for safe payments worldwide.
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