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GOV.UK Pay

GOV.UK Pay is the new simple, secure way to pay for government services online. It will make it easier and more efficient for government to process payments, saving time and effort for service teams across government.

What we're working on in Government as a Platform

The government as a platform team stand up and discuss team matters in front of a sign that reads 'government as a platform'

As more and more services begin to adopt our Government as a Platform components, we’ve decided to post regular updates on our progress building them. This is a list of what we’ve done so far in 2017. We’ll iterate the format of these updates to make them as useful as we can.

GOV.UK Pay gets Payment Card Industry (PCI) accreditation

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GOV.UK Pay is now compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. This means GOV.UK Pay can process credit and debit card payments on behalf of government and wider public sector organisations. Till Wirth and Rory Smith talk about the team's approach to security in the context of agile software development and continuous delivery.