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 USCTR procures and manages a number of statewide contracts that enable departments to accept electronic payments and address associated data security requirements. To get started, contact [email protected] for details.
This contract with Worldpay enables acceptance of Visa, Mastercard, Discover and debit payments, as well as associated point of sale hardware (i.e., credit card terminals).
This contract with American Express enables acceptance of American Express payments.
This contract with Catalis (previously known as nCourt), Grant Street Group, PayIT, and Tyler enables a variety of payment solutions. Departments may leverage this contract to engage the 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, wallet, and ACH transactions may be facilitated through the services of these payment solutions vendors. The electronic payment solutions can be configured to integrate with the Commonwealth’s primary financial system (MMARS) and other business or financial software systems as specified. Commonwealth entities may choose to implement some or all available payment channels and methods according to their respective business requirements.
This contract with Compass IT Compliance and RSI Systems provides 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 departments improve the safekeeping of cardholder information by tightening overall security standards and information management to:
With 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.
The statewide contracts for eRev reservices are authorized as follows:
Please note, the information provided in the above Frequently Asked Questions is for research purposes only and is not legal advice from the Office of the Comptroller nor is it a substitute for individualized legal advice. Further, the Office of the Comptroller disclaims any responsibility or liability which may arise or result from the use or reliance on any portion of the information provided in these Frequently Asked Questions.
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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