Online bill payment for local government. No software fee.

Cloud Bill Pay Manager gives your residents a modern way to pay taxes, utility bills, permits, and fines — branded as your agency, not as a vendor. Host Merchant Services funds the platform through payment processing, so there’s no license fee to budget for and, in most jurisdictions, nothing to put out to bid.
Cloud Bill Pay Manager online payment platform dashboard for local government agencies
Cloud Bill Pay Manager bills dashboard with payment records and export options

Most agencies pay twice for online payments

You pay a software company an annual license to accept payments online. Then your residents pay a convenience fee on top of every transaction. The vendor collects on both sides.
Meanwhile, payments still get keyed in by hand, and reconciliation still happens in a spreadsheet at the end of the month.

Everything your residents and your staff need

Pay any bill, any way

Credit and debit cards, ACH, Apple Pay, and Google Pay — online, by text message, over the phone, or at your counter.

Branded as your agency

Your logo, your colors, your domain. Residents pay the agency they recognize, not a payment vendor they don't.

Autopay and payment plans

Residents enroll themselves. Failed payments retry automatically and notify the resident before anything lapses.

Books that balance

Multi-fund splitting, settlement reports that match your general ledger, and a refund history that can't be quietly edited.

Bills in, automatically

Import by CSV, scheduled SFTP, or API — with ready-made column mappings for the systems most agencies already run.

Built for public agencies

Six staff permission levels, complete audit logging, and English and Spanish.

Free software, funded by processing

Host Merchant Services is a payment processor. We earn on the payments your agency is already taking. That means we don’t need to charge you for the software on top — so we don’t.
Typical Vendor Cloud Bill Pay Manager
Software License Annual fee $0
Setup and Onboarding Often billed separately Included — we do the work
Contract Multi-year, auto-renewing Short term, with an exit
Resident Convenience Fee Set by the vendor Competitive
How the Vendor Earns License plus processing Processing only

You’re paying twice today. We remove the first one.

A payment experience residents don't call you about

Most people pay a bill the same way they do everything else — on a phone, at night, in about a minute. Cloud Bill Pay Manager is built for that.

Residents look up a bill by account or bill number and pay without creating an account. They get a receipt by email or text immediately. If they’d rather not think about it again, they can set up autopay or split the balance into installments themselves.

Cloud Bill Pay Manager autopay schedules dashboard for recurring resident payments
Cloud Bill Pay Manager payments dashboard with settlement reports, refunds, and audit logs

Reconciliation that takes minutes, not afternoons

Every payment lands in one place, already matched to the bill it paid.

Split across funds automatically.

One resident payment, allocated across the funds your accounting requires — without a manual journal entry.

Refunds and voids that hold up in an audit.

Every refund creates a linked record. The original transaction is never altered, so the history is permanent.

Six permission levels.

Clerks, managers, reconcilers, and viewers each see exactly what their role requires — and nothing else.

Settlement reports that tie out.

Daily settlement and batch reporting, exportable to CSV.

A complete audit log.

Every action, every user, with timestamp and IP address.

Your bills, imported — not re-keyed

Send us your bill file however it already comes out of your system: a CSV upload, a scheduled SFTP drop, or a direct API connection. Recurring imports run on a schedule with a full history of every run, so you can see exactly what loaded and what didn’t.
We ship ready-made column mappings for exports from Tyler Munis, Tyler New World ERP, BS&A, Caselle, Black Mountain Software, and QuickBooks Online — so nobody on your team spends an afternoon matching column headers.
These are import presets built for each system’s export files — not certified integrations or formal partnerships with these companies. Product and company names mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners; see the footer for full attribution.
Cloud Bill Pay Manager CSV bill import interface for automated bill data uploads
Cloud Bill Pay Manager security settings with two-factor authentication and secure payment protection

Card data never touches our servers

When a resident types a card number, it goes directly to the payment gateway’s secure fields — not to Cloud Bill Pay Manager. We receive a token that stands in for the card. We never see, store, or transmit the card number itself.

That architecture matters for your own compliance work: it’s what keeps a merchant agency’s annual PCI assessment at SAQ-A, roughly two dozen questions, instead of the substantially longer SAQ-D.

Beyond card data:

Live in weeks, not budget cycles

1

Demo

Twenty minutes. We'll show you the resident experience and the staff dashboard using your bill types.

2

Setup

We configure your branding, load your bills, and connect your payment gateway. Your team doesn't build anything.

3

Training

A walkthrough for the staff who'll use it daily. Usually under an hour.

4

Go live

You launch with a named contact at HMS, not a ticket queue.

Because there’s no software purchase, there’s often nothing to put out to bid. Procurement rules vary by jurisdiction, and we’ll work within whatever process yours requires.

Questions agencies ask

How much does the software cost?
Nothing. There’s no license fee, no per-user fee, and no setup charge. Host Merchant Services earns through payment processing, which funds the platform.
Usually not — there’s no software purchase to procure. Procurement thresholds and rules vary by jurisdiction, so we’ll work within your process if yours requires a formal step.
That’s configurable. We support five fee models — service fee, convenience fee, surcharge, absorbed by the agency, or a hybrid — so the structure matches your policy and your state’s rules.
Yes. We import from it. Send bills by CSV, scheduled SFTP, or API, with ready-made column mappings for several widely used systems.
Yes. Tell us your renewal date and we’ll plan around it. Some agencies also run us in parallel on a single bill type first, so they can compare before committing.
A named contact rather than a general queue, plus published procedures for incidents, gateway outages, and refund disputes.
Yes. Alongside the online portal, we support text-to-pay, phone/IVR payments, in-person payments at your counter, and kiosk.
Typically a few weeks, depending on how quickly we can get your bill file and gateway details. HMS does the configuration work.

See it with your own bills

We’ll set up a demo using your agency’s branding and a sample of the bill types you actually collect — property tax, utility, permits, fines, whatever you’re responsible for. Twenty minutes, no obligation, and no proposal to sign at the end.

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