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All existing customers of Ultra Payments will receive the upgrade at no cost as we continue to move to a no end-of-life policy across its product range.

Bacs direct submitters that are not Ultra Payment customers should contact us to discuss migrating to a payments solution with no end of life guaranteed, that is tested and ready to deploy in readiness to meet the 1 June 2016 deadline.

PayGate is available either as a cloud-based payment gateway, a hosted and managed Enterprise solution or on premise solution for direct submitters; migration can be accomplished easily and quickly with minimum disruption and cost.

Why is the change taking place?

A new and more sophisticated level of internet security, known as SHA-2, is being adopted by the likes of Microsoft and Google. Organisations that use Bacs to collect or make payments, including paying salaries and pensions, should ensure they can accommodate these changes. Failure to do so could result in being unable to access Bacs’ services after 1 June 2016.

At the same time as this change is being made by the internet community, Bacs will withdraw support for older connection protocols to provide even more protection for the communications pipeline between the internet-based service access points, Bacstel-IP and the Payment Services Website, and the service user.

After 1 June 2016, only TLS 1.1 and 1.2 will be supported. It will not be possible to access Bacs via Bacstel-IP or the Payment Services Website after 1 June 2016 if service users do not have in place a web browser, operating system, and if used, a Bacs Approved Software Solution that support these changes.