Your agency can accept online payments in the form of credit cards and in the form of checks in Accela Automation and Accela Citizen Access by connecting with an outside payment provider such as PayPal Payflow Pro. To connect with a payment provider, you must configure an Accela-provided Electronic Payments Adapter or an agency-provided EPayments Adapter.
For example, Accela provides an adapter to connect Accela Automation to the PayPal Payflow EPayments Gateway.
The Accela Automation adapter supports the following providers:
■ Custom Redirect
■ Govolution
■ Official Payments CoBrand+
■ Official Payments STP
■ PayPal Payflow Pro 4.3
■ Virtual Merchant
Accela recommends that agencies use the Accela-provided PayPal Payflow Pro4.3 EPayments Adapter using a merchant account for a bank that PayPal supports.
For instructions on configuring an EPayments Adapter, see the Accela Automation EPayments Configuration Guide and Scripts. This file contains the Accela Electronic Payments Configuration Guide and a set of related scripts.
After you complete the Epayment configuration for online payments, extend online payment functionality on the user interface with payment configurations for Accela Citizen Access, see Setting up Payment Functionality Online.