OfficialPayments.com, longest tenured bill payment site for the IRS,
has processed $14 billion in IRS tax payments since 2000
NAPLES, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
ACI
Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of electronic
payment and banking solutions, announced today that the
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has extended its relationship with the
company's OfficialPayments.com online
bill payment service/portal OfficialPayments.com. It is the longest
tenured service provider for the IRS and has processed $14 billion in
IRS tax payments since 2000.
Through OfficialPayments.com,
users have a quick, easy and reliable way to view, manage and pay their
federal, state and local taxes. As more people embrace online and mobile
for paying bills, OfficialPayments.com provides them convenient options.
In fact, more than 75 percent (77%) of IRS electronic payments made
through OfficialPayments.com are made online or via a mobile browser.
This equates to a more than 600 percent increase in IRS payments made on
a mobile device.
"We are very excited to continue our relationship with the IRS; this
marks the third consecutive time that the IRS has awarded us a 5-year
RFP, which validates the flexibility, scalability and overall power of
OfficialPayments.com," said Carolyn Homberger, group president, ACI
Worldwide. "Tax payers have utilized our bill payment solution for more
than 20 years because it's quick, easy, reliable and, above all else,
secure."
Bill payments that can be made through ACI's OfficialPayments.com
website include the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 23 state
governments, the District of Columbia, more than 3,000 local
municipalities and counties across all 50 states, 350 colleges and
universities, and 450 utility companies. Consumers can pay federal,
state and local property taxes and other bills such as utilities and
college tuition with credit cards, debit cards, electronic checks and
alternative payment methods via mobile, online (www.OfficialPayments.com),
telephone, point of sale and other channels.
About ACI Worldwide
ACI Worldwide, the Universal
Payments company, powers electronic payments and banking for more
than 5,600 financial institutions, retailers, billers and processors
around the world. ACI software processes $13 trillion each day in
payments and securities transactions for more than 300 of the leading global
retailers, and 18 of the world's 20 largest banks. Through our
comprehensive suite of software products and hosted services, we deliver
a broad range of solutions for payment processing; card and merchant
management; online
banking; mobile, branch and voice banking; fraud
detection; trade finance; and electronic
bill presentment and payment. To learn more about ACI, please visit www.aciworldwide.com.
You can also find us on Twitter @ACI_Worldwide.
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ACI Worldwide, Inc.
Dan Ring, 781-370-3600
dan.ring@aciworldwide.com
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