We know your time is valuable and when you need answers, you shouldn’t have to wait. That’s why we’ve introduced our brand-new AI-powered chat bot, your always-on support companion, ready to help you anytime, anywhere.
Delivering the best possible customer support is one of our key priorities. We are continually looking at ways to make our product easier to use. Our new chatbot makes light work of searching across all our resources to find the answers you need, speedily and exactly when you need them.
Whether it’s the middle of the workday or late at night, our AI chat bot is always available to guide you.
Simply click the chat icon to the right of your screen, ask your question and let the bot instantly search across our knowledge base for the best answer, all in seconds.
Our intelligent search uses advanced
AI to understand your questions and deliver the most accurate, relevant results from all London & Zurich resources — including help articles, FAQs, and product documentation.
If your query needs a personal touch, the bot will automatically create a ticket for one of our expert team members to pick up. That means you’ll never get stuck — your request will be passed seamlessly to a human who
can take it from there.
Working outside normal office hours? No problem. Even when our support team is offline, the AI bot’s got your back — providing helpful answers
to common questions and keeping your projects moving, no matter
what time it is.
Absolutely not! Our Bacs experts are our most valuable assets. In fact, the bot is already making our support team even more efficient, providing accurate, clear responses to the most common queries frees up more time for our human experts to resolve more complex issues faster.
The bot searches across a wide range of resources to provide rich, clear responses, including the knowledge base help articles, our website content, product user guide, how to tips and videos.
A support ticket is created for a member of the team to promptly pick up your query. It will also alert the team that relevant content is required, the team are continually creating content to make the bot better and faster.
Continual content creation based on queries submitted.
Please help us improve her by providing feedback on any issues you experienced, such as unsatisfactory answers, not enough detail, responses taking too long to load, or anything else.
Your feedback will help us create more content aligned to your searches. You can also provide feedback directly from the pAIGe chat bot.
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Security policy manager * Includes: password complexity manager, inactive timeout, time restrictions, IP address restrictions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
AWS ISO27001 hosted * Primary fail over and back up UK data centres | ✓ | ✓ | |
SFTP file uploads/downloads *Secure way to move files across the internet, customers can use their own certificates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gemalto security tokens MFA | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Email MFA | ✓ | ||
| SMS MFA | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
APP MFA * Works with common auth apps such as Google Authenticator, Authy. Works on Android or iOS. | ✓ | ||
| PG Platform ISO27001 | ✓ | ||
Fraud tool *Currently support Blacklists and Whitelists. In a blacklist you add various sortcodes / account numbers and the system will prevent any payment to those accounts. In a whitelist you add sortcodes and account numbers and the system will ONLY allow payments to accounts on the whitelist. We include various tools to help build and maintain the lists. | ✓ | ||
GDPR subject access request * Search tools to help perform a GDRP lookup. Then can optionally ‘sanitise’ personal data from the system. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
GDPR Data cleansing *Remove historical data by bulk or individual. | ✓ | ||
Browser compatbility * We maintain support for Chrome, Edge and Firefox. | ✓ | ||
Built for performance * Version 3 runs on super modern, high-end infrastructure | ✓ | ||
Single Platform * Customers have a single user account that they can use across all services (Enterprise, Online, Validate, etc). | ✓ | ||
Agent rebuilt key management system * Very secure way to get files to and from the Paygate cloud. Supports ways to automate files being sent into the paygate cloud and retrieving reports from the cloud. Key management was rebuilt for V3 to further increase security. | ✓ | ||
HTTPS uploads/downloads * paygate v3 supports both SFTP and HTTPS. | ✓ | ||
In browser File and Folder handling * Allows customers to securely organise their files and folders that are stored on paygate | ✓ |
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| Logging tickets by email | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Logging tickets by portal | ✓ | ||
| Logging tickets by phone | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dedicated account management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Ongoing development | ✓ | ||
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Auto File Import *Automatically imports a payment file and validates it. Users no longer need to manually browse for and import a file, paygate will do this in the background and present the validation results to the user. |
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Designer in browser * In V2 Workflows use an older style desktop app. In V3 workflows are built and managed in the Paygate Browser app. It’s much easier to deploy and manage. |
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Improved logging * A feature mainly for PS/CS to help them diagnose problems with workflows. Problems can be diagnosed and fixed faster. |
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New scheduler triggers * A new trigger type that allows the user to set up a workflow like you set up a meeting in Outlook. For some, this is more flexible and easier to understand than using CRON. |
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Triggers for multiple workflows * You can use a single trigger to start multiple workflows. It’s a simple feature that will make things easier to manage if you have a lot of workflows. |
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Workflow validation * Troubleshoots new workflows, validation |
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Workflow chaining * Allows a workflow to call another workflow. Using this you can simplify large complicated workflows in smaller separate ones. Easier to manage and diagnose issues. |
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New nodes * Various new nodes that help to build new types of workflows or help manage existing workflows. |
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Full documentation V3 will be fully documented with help guides and tutorials.
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Multiple filename variables * Supporting multiple filename variables should make designing complex workflows a bit easier. |
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Future developments * Pure Excel Importer – XLSX; BACS Calendar Widget; Workflow Timeline; Workflow / Mobile App notification / management; S3 Connector |
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Download and distribute A Reports * When you have workflow and HSM you can automate the entire BACS report download process. They can automatically be converted to other formats for integration into finance apps. They can be emailed to customers as html, pdf or zips. They can be made available for collection via SFTP. Or, if you use Agent, they can be security delivered to the customer’s private network. |
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| Partial submission | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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Lightsout submission * No signing |
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| Standard nodes for initiation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Batched bureau submissions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manual & Automated submission builder | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Customer import | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bacs reporting tools | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Recall Bureau Customers by ID | ✓ | ||
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Submission Re-entry * Complete your submissions over any amount of time
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Familiar workflow throughout *It will be familiar to V2 customer but they will notice improvements. |
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| Revamped manual submission mode *This is completely new in V3 Bureau.
Those customers wanting a more manual way of building their submission (Rather than using Jobs) will find a new, efficient way of working.
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Drag and drop files from anywhere *Like in other areas of V3. User can just drag and drop file in Bureau for processing. They can also use the Restricted File Browser and Server file browser – that add more security – if they wish. |
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Support for multiple file formats per submission * No longer limited to single Standard 18 submission for example
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Better default filename support *Makes working with files easier. |
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Usage Reporting over data range *Small but useful improvement to reporting. User can set a date range on the usage report. |
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Validate *Validate is integrated in V3 and so customers that have both products can access them from the same client with the same account. |
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API Access *Validate API and the Payment API.
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Save Submissions *Save an ‘in-progress’ submission and return to it later. Build up a submission during the day |
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| Improved payment and submission searching | ✓ | ||
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Customisable dashboard *Many useful, module specific, dashboard widgets, e.g. Payments, collections, workflow, etc. |
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| Enhanced reporting including real-time usage | ✓ |
