The Scottish Government Digital Directorate has reported that a milestone has been passed in the ScotPayments service for the country’s public sector.
It said the beta partner of the digital service, Independent Living Fund (ILF) Scotland, has now fully onboarded all of its outbound payments to the platform – for goods, services, salaries, expenses and grants.
In addition ,the service, which was launched in beta form last year as the Scottish Government Payments Service, has now processed over 6,000 payments to the value of £13.5 million. The figure is expected to increase as use of the platform is scaled up.
Writing in a blogpost, Megan Abbott, lead business relationship manager of ScotPayments, said the team is now looking for further beta partners as the next phase of the project.
Development continues
“Technical development of the platform and service will continue throughout 2024 as the programme continues to build functions and features in line with the technical and product roadmap,” she added.
“These include the scaling of the platform to ensure the service can handle the growth of payment volumes and values as new organisations join along with one off, faster, international and alternative payments being scoped for discovery.”
She outlined four mean functions within the platform: onboarding for using the service; processing payments; providing help through a knowledge portal; and an option to offboard with a feedback process to improve the service.
