Information Team Croydon
Digital Services
Assistant Chief Executive Directorate
Bernard Wetherill House
7th Floor, Zone B
Croydon
CR0 1EA

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DEAR William Lawrence

Freedom of information request - FOI/7762

Subject: Online payment systems

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Information Management Team

Croydon Digital Services

Assistant Chief Executive Directorate

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Bernard Weatherill House

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Croydon CR0 1EA

Information Team Croydon
Digital Services
Assistant Chief Executive Directorate
Bernard Wetherill House
7th Floor, Zone B
Croydon
CR0 1EA

Contact: Information Team
[Croydon Borough Council request email]

Dear William Lawrence

Request FOI/7762

Further to your request received on 23/06/2023, I confirm that the Council
has now considered your request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000. For ease of reference, I will now address each of your questions in
turn.

I am conducting research on the technology used by councils to take
payments from users of their online services.

Please could you advice me of:

1. What system do you use to take online payments from service users, and
who supplies it?

AIM – axis income management system/pay.net – supplied by pay 360 Ltd.

2. When did you start using this system?

2006/07

3. When does the contract end for this system?

2029

4. What is the annual cost of the system?

£55074

5. Where is the system hosted? Please specify if it is hosted by the
council in its own data centre, hosted by the council in its own cloud
environment (such as AWS or Azure), hosted by the supplier as a discrete
instance, or hosted by the supplier as a true software as a service.

Dedicated instance hosted by the supplier – the dedicated instance is a
SaaS offering which we subscribe to.

6. How does the system integrate with the other elements of your online
service delivery platform?

The supplier has a specification which is used by internal and third-party
applications as the basis for the integration. This API is two-way.
Details of the transaction are passed securely from the source system to
Pay360. Success or Failure handshaking is returned from Pay360 to be
handled appropriately in the source system.

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Writing:     Information Team

London Borough of Croydon

Bernard Weatherill House

Floor 7 - Zone B

8 Mint Walk

Croydon, CR0 1EA

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Yours sincerely,

Information Team

Croydon Digital Services

Assistant Chief Executive Directorate

Bernard Wetherill House,

Mint Walk,

Croydon,

CR0 1EA

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