SPX™ platform
RtP Connectivity | White label services
Simple, secure, low risk – the future of bill payments is here.
SPX™ from Answer Pay is the keystone of the Request to Pay ecosystem.
It manages the identities of participants and securely routes bill payment messages to the correct destinations.
It connects invoice management systems (typically offered by banks) and bill payment applications, which could be retail bank apps, digital wallets or personal finance managers.
Why use our platform?
Our API gives secure, unified access to financial institutions, enabling the integration of digital invoices and cash collection by bank transfer and powered two-way communication with payers.
Lower Costs
Offer billers better rates compared to cheque, cash and card payments while increasing transaction returns.
Satisfied Customers
Adopt pay request styled digital payments to displace cash, card and cheque payments and win a higher share of the customer wallet.
Improved Payment Conversion
Give customers their choice of bill payment and options to part pay improves payment conversion
Get connected to Request to Pay
We step you through the onboarding journey to install Request to Pay:
- Take advantage of our plug and play technology
- Leverage our know-how and skills to fast-track your project
In June 2020, Answer Pay became the first certified provider of Request to Pay services, and the first to complete live transactions.
Case study
An Open Banking powered payments provider wanted to increase the engagement with their customer facing app.
Struggling with a high rate of churn our client was excited by the opportunity to increase customer engagement in their app. By embedding the receipt of payment requests, their customers would have an unavoidable need to come back time and again. However building and maintaining Open Banking connectivity across Europe is complex and they did not want to distract from this core part of the service. So they chose to connect using Answer Pay’s SPX™ platform.
Connecting to SPX™ allowed them to leverage our pre-certified platform and APIs to significantly reduce their time to market. Plus as new parties join the Request to Pay ecosystem, SPX™ automatically makes them available reducing ongoing maintenance costs too. The solution was fully white labelled and embedded in their existing application making it easy for customers to adopt.
They are now seeing their payments volume build and are gaining new customers.
Why partner with Answer Pay?
Work with our expert Request to Pay team
A SaaS platform with a track-record of results
Get to market faster with plug and play for Request to Pay
Why choose our RtP platform solution?
Responsive app enabler
Banks want to focus their internal digital spend towards last-mile customer interface that maximise R&D returns. But, thanks to Request to Pay, that doesn’t stop them looking toward the next big change in digital payments; adopting a platform that enhances their app investments—with the added benefits of being easily integrated, always secure, and one that empowers vulnerable bill payers.
Digital platform advantages
As a recent EY report on platform-based banking puts it—“In the digital economy, you can become a driver without owning a taxi, a hotelier without owning a hotel, or a bookseller without owning a bookstore.” Digital platforms accelerate innovation by empowering banks and other businesses to enhance their customer mobile apps with ready-to-play integrations that add instant value without placing fresh demands on in-house digital teams.
Simplified integration
Platform business success stories like Airbnb, Uber and Just Eat show just how much digital consumers value simplified integration made possible by digital platforms. With a user-friendly interface and easy navigation, app users decreases search time and increases satisfaction, fulfilling their needs in a faster and more efficient way. When it comes to mobile payments, Answer Pay has built a digital platform formed around the UK standards-based messaging infrastructure Request to Pay, to give banks first mover advantage in secure mobile payments from their apps.
Secured mobile payments
Providers of pay by link solutions—i.e., Where a biller requests payment via an unsecured public URL link—argue that it is a straightforward and secure way to get paid through a simple payment link. Such solutions ignore decades old Information Security industry guidance, calling on consumers ‘not to click on links’ that allows hackers to create phishing attacks fake landing pages. Request to Pay solutions from Answer Pay are a viable alternative to pay by link.