Electronic Receivables Services

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Today, at most financial institutions, online bill payment is a standard element of the customer account-opening process. Increasingly, the service is positioned as a key component of the overall product and services offering, leading to more consumers paying bills online. As a result, a greater volume of payments is being transmitted to you and your corporate customers through the online channel.

Consumers paying their bills online expect fast, accurate electronic processing and posting. Billers want payments to post accurately and quickly to meet their customers’ expectations. Electronic payments transmitted via the MasterCard RPPS network offer the best method for satisfying the needs of consumers and accomplishing your business goals.

Online bill payment allows consumers to initiate payments to virtually any biller from their financial institution’s home banking Web site. In addition, credit counseling agencies, walk-in payment providers, and kiosk-based payment centers can send electronic bill payments to billers on a consumer’s behalf.

Multiple Connections: An Expensive Tangle

To receive payments electronically, billers must have an electronic connection to home banking sites and other payment origination points. Otherwise, their payments are issued via paper checks—exception items that create operational and customer service inefficiencies.

Billers sometimes choose to create a direct electronic feed to each originator. However, multiple connections are expensive to establish and maintain, can create customer service issues, and disintermediate the lockbox provider. With the growing number of consumer origination endpoints, this arrangement can only continue to grow more chaotic, unless a solution is found.

An efficient, cost-effective solution does exist: the MasterCard RPPS network. An alternative to the complicated tangle of multiple direct connections, the MasterCard RPPS network allows you and your billers to receive electronic payments through a single reliable connection.

While some online payment services can deliver bill payments electronically from consumers directly to billers, MasterCard RPPS, an industry leader since 1987, serves as a central hub, processing tens of millions of electronic payments every month. The secure MasterCard RPPS network:

Provides you with a single payment receivables connection to virtually every originator of online bill payments
Enables you to communicate biller changes and updates to all originators, using the MasterCard RPPS Online Biller Directory
Distributes secure payments to the largest number of electronic payments receivers and treasury service providers in the industry, representing thousands of billers

As a growing number of originating financial institutions aggressively market their online bill payment services, the MasterCard RPPS network provides seamless management of all consumer endpoints through the same dependable channel.

In addition, MasterCard RPPS offers several benefits to billers:

Billers receive data and funds faster. With multiple daily processing cycles, MasterCard RPPS routes posting data and settles funds typically within 24 hours.
The speed and accuracy of automated payment processing through MasterCard RPPS increases back-office efficiencies, eliminates the need to manage multiple payment originator relationships, and reduces customer inquiries and the associated operational costs.
With consumer online bill payments now constituting an increasing percentage of the typical biller’s lockbox volume, electronic payment acceptance can offer an immediate and significant cost reduction and productivity boost.

Businesses of all sizes—from mortgage lenders, cable TV providers, and utilities companies to charities and local small business owners—can benefit from the reach and efficiency of online bill payments delivered via your partnership with MasterCard RPPS.

An electronic receivables solution can offer significant advantages for any organization that:

Invoices consumers
Manages exception items—paper checks and check-and-lists—from various online payment providers
Receives direct electronic feeds from multiple payment providers and wishes to cut costs and increase efficiencies with a single connection

MasterCard RPPS can significantly reduce exception items and streamline the receivables operation for any such billing organization.

Why Thousands of Billers Prefer MasterCard RPPS

The MasterCard RPPS network offers a unique set of features designed to maximize payment processing performance for billers and their service providers:

Sophisticated data edit process, ensuring the most accurate payment posting possible and minimizing returns
Powerful online biller directory service, providing daily additions, deletions, and other changes to biller account and payment information—and available 24/7 to all originators
Good funds model for payments from all originators
Proven MasterCard risk management policies and procedures
Specialized customer service staff
Turnkey consumer awareness and marketing programs available
Easy-to-use online service tools, including payment research
Targeted bill payment services, designed to address specific industries and payment types, such as business to business, credit counseling, prepaid card, and more

To learn more, click here for a printable version of the MasterCard RPPS Electronic Receivables Services Fact Sheet.

MasterCard RPPS adds value across the entire electronic payments landscape. Learn more today!

MasterCard RPPS delivers the most advanced electronic payment services available, setting the standard for the industry. We understand and fully support your needs—and we’re ready to manage your online bill payment tasks so you can concentrate on building your business in this expanding environment.

Our dedicated customer-service staff offers expert, timely assistance. When you contact MasterCard RPPS Customer Service and Operations, you’ll reach a trained product analyst who can resolve any issue or problem.
Public advocacy, consumer awareness programs, marketing initiatives, sales support, and proactive account management are designed to improve your bottom line.

To learn more about all of our payment services, please contact MasterCard RPPS Sales and New Business Development at 1-800-535-2130.

E-mail: rpps_sales@mastercard.com

Web site: www.mastercardintl.com/rpps