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Electronic payments
Koby Levy
VP International Operations, Netwise Applications
Creating an electronic
payment foundation
Koby Levy explains why public sector organisations need a central government e-payments solution
In a world motivated by the
information revolution, where the
World Wide Web and mobile phones
have been turned into a platform for
electronic commerce, government
and public organisations are
required to enable citizens to make
their payments online or by mobile
phones, safely, quickly and easily.
The challenge
The requirements of a government
e-payments system, designed to
facilitate the online payment of various
government taxes and fees, are quite
different than those of traditional
e-payments systems.
Government e-payments systems
should:
• Easily integrate with various
back-end systems (different local
governments, departments and
public organisations) in order to
obtain payment details and report
back the payments made
• Serve various end users (citizens,
corporations, businesses or
business representatives)
• Support all payment types
(voucher payments, service fees,
product catalogue or referrals –
i.e. business registration renewal
fees, council taxes, building
tax payments and land registry
information)
• Enable different payment methods
(debit/credit card, direct online
bank transfer and PayPal)
• Provide a holistic view of all
government payments.
Enterprise or other banking
e-payments solutions are ill suited to
government needs. These solutions
are concerned mainly with the
management of product catalogues
and inventories that are of little
interest to governments. They do
not support ad-hoc generation of
personalised payment items or
provide tight integration with a large
variety of back-end systems, which are
some of the unique requirements of a
government e-payments foundation
solution. In order to overcome this
challenge, a central solution capable
of matching these requirements needs
to be implemented.
Introducing GPay
Netwise has been developing its
government specific e-payments
platform product for many years. It
has been put to the test in real life and
ever since has been carefully enhanced
and upgraded to what it is today. The
GPay product is a complete solution
for government e-payments.
Gpay generates personalised
payment items through different
“The requirements of a
government e-payments
system, designed to facilitate
the online payment of
various government taxes
and fees, are quite different
than those of traditional
e-payments systems”
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