This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Local 2019 conference, which was held on 1st November 2019 at City Hall in London. More details on the conference can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/local/2019

1. Laura Payten
Engagement Manager
Government Digital Service

2. What is Government
as a Platform?

3. Government as a Platform provides
shared components that make
services easier to create and
cheaper to run
GDS

4. Messages
Messages Information Payments
Registers Verification Hosting

5. GOV.UKGOV.U
K Notify
GOV.UK Notify GOV.UK GOV.UK Pay
Registers GOV.UK Verify GOV.UK

6. GOV.UK Pay
The payments platform
for the UK public sector

7. What is it?

8. GOV.UK Pay is a simple
way for service teams
to take and manage
payments online

11. GDS

12. Why did we
build it?

13. GDS
But paying government is often too difficult
for the user, and hard to manage for the
service.

14. GDS
Make it easier for users to pay for
government services
Make it easier and cheaper for service
teams to take and manage payments

15. Make it easier
for users

16. GDS
Fully accessible and user tested services

17. Manage your
payments easily

18. GDS
Take payments, issue refunds and run
reports on your payments

19. Security is built in

20. GDS
GOV.UK Pay is robust, secure and fully
Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant

21. Used across the
public sector

22. GDS

23. Start taking
payments in a day

24. GDS
Receive payments and issue
refunds, simply, quickly and
securely using payment links.

25. www.gov.uk/payments/royal-wedding-
photographers/royal-wedding-photography-
accreditation
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26. Automate your
service

29. Cost

30. There is no charge to use GOV.UK
Pay.
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31. You continue to pay the transaction
rates of the Payment Service
provider.
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32. Reporting

34. Branding

35. Use GOV.UK Pay or your own logo
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37. "GDS sharing GOV.UK Pay to the
rest of the public sector has meant
that we do not need to build the
same thing over and over again,
ultimately saving public money."
Operations Manger, Dorset Council
GDS

38. www.gov.uk/pay

39. GOV.UK Notify
The messaging platform
for the UK public sector

40. What is it?

41. GOV.UK Notify is a simple way for
service team to provide information to
user, keeping them informed of their
application and key information

43. Why did we
build it?

44. GDS
1 in 4 calls to government
are someone asking for an
update

45. Make it easier
for users

46. GDSGDS
Notify is custom built to meet the
needs of government services
It’s easier, more resilient and cheaper

47. Control message
content in real-time
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48. Personalise it or
keep it as it is
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49. Automate your
service

51. See how
messages
perform
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52. Saving time and
money

53. “We used GOV.UK Notify during the European
Parliamentary Election this year ... The system is ideal
for getting huge databases circulated that are
problematic if run through the Council’s infrastructure”
Tower Hamlet's Head of Electoral Services
GDS

54. Cost

55. - No cost for emails
- First 25,000 text messages are
free for local authorities
- Letters sent from as little as 60p
GDS

56. www.gov.uk/service-toolkit

57. Thanks!
Laura Payten
Engagement Manager
Government Digital Service