PaySG
Digitise payments for government agencies
Background
Developed to enable digital payments for COVID-19 swab tests and Stay-Home Notices for incoming travellers to Singapore.
Approach
- Users will receive a personalised payment link sent to their email. They will then go to a personalised payment page that includes some details submitted at point of entry application. Upon checkout, they will receive a personalised invoice/receipt with details that they can show government officers to prove that they have paid.
- There are various channels through which links can be generated - users filling forms on FormSG directly, government officers filling in a FormSG form, or a script that generates links to be sent in bulk.
- PaySG uses FormSG’s webhook feature, Stripe for payment processing, and Postmark for transactional email templates and sending.
Impact
- ~2 weeks - time taken to develop PaySG
- In the 2 months since launch on 17 Jun 2020:
- S$61M volume of payments that our links have enabled
- 47k successful transactions and payment links sent out
- 8 agencies/ministries using PaySG