EDGE GoCardless enables Councils using the following EDGE modules to collect payments from their customers using their banking app or banking website:

• AdvantEDGE Allotments & Rentals
• AdvantEDGE Facilities for bookings
• AdvantEDGE Finance
• AdvantEDGE Markets & Events
• Epitaph for cemeteries & crematoria

EDGE GoCardless is powered by GoCardless which provides instant bank to bank payments that have the following benefits when compared to card payments:

• Lower cost
• More reliable than card payments which have a 7.2% failure rate
• Not prone to duplicate payments like card payments are
• Automated integration with corporate finance and AdvantEDGE Finance for the daily amount deposited into the Council’s bank account

GoCardless uses the UK Open Banking regulated framework.

Pay Now

AdvantEDGE and Epitaph provide three payment methods as follows:

• Pay Now link on invoice PDF emailed to customer
• Pay Now button on Client Portal that the customer or council officer can click
• Pay Now link on text message or email sent to customer from AdvantEDGE, Epitaph or the Client Portal

e.g. By a market officer using a tablet to collect payments in person from a market stall trader or by
a crematorium officer using a computer to collect payment from a member of the public purchasing a memorial.

Single, Daily Deposit into Council’s Bank Account

Each day GoCardless pays out (deposits) all payments for previous day as a single amount into the Council’s bank account. The full amount is deposited, and each month the Council is invoiced by GoCardless for their fees.

Automated Integration with Finance

GoCardless advises EDGE when each payment has been (1) paid and (2) deposited (the next working day) into the Council’s bank account.

• For AdvantEDGE Finance clients, the finance integration is seamless with the relevant AdvantEDGE module and Epitaph.
• For Enterprise clients, EDGE produces an end of day (EOD) file that exactly matches what has been deposited each day into the Council’s bank account. The Council can automatically download each daily EOD file via EDGE’s secure FTP server and import them into their corporate finance. EDGE can customise the EOD to meet the requirements of each Council by adding extra columns of information.