Pay360 an Access Company Reviews 55

TrustScore 1.5 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

When working with this company they had a lot of issues with their equipment and batching. The batching didn’t work on several different occasions with several different equipment options they kept s... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

ABSOLUTELY DREADFUL, do not answer e-mails, make promises on the telephone they later deny. Have been with this company for over ten years and have now been left high and dry at the last minute after... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Update - I think "copy and pasting" seems to be the ability of this organisation as they seem so unprepared to actually discuss the issues ---------------------------------------... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Our Account Manager Richard Marks has seen us through many mile stones recently and would like to leave feedback on the help he has given with these matters. From a new contract, cloud migration pro... See more

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  1. e-Commerce Solution Provider
  2. Payment Service

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Pay360, part of The Access Group, is a complete payments eco-system – the only one in the market to offer the breadth of payment options that we do, from direct debits, to point of sale, telephony payments, mobile payments and new payment methods such as open banking. We’ve been serving our private and public sector clients for more than three decades and as such our offer is based on years of experience focused exclusively on payments. We are proud to be the market leader for public sector payments and are used by more than 60% of Local Authorities. Security underpins our offering: Pay360 has been at the forefront of card security for many years – we achieved PCI Level 1 compliance in 2005 and PA-DSS compliance in 2009. We were among the first Payment Service Providers to release 3DSecure in 2005.


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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

When working with this company they had…

When working with this company they had a lot of issues with their equipment and batching. The batching didn’t work on several different occasions with several different equipment options they kept sending me used and broken equipment that they got from some other person that it wasn’t working properly and kept trusting it for my financial security it was the most stressful experience of my entire life, but I continue to be patient and work with these people but when I finally decided to call it quits after a year and a half of nightmares and headaches what do they do when I called to cancel they won’t let me cancel. They never tell me that I owe them a form so they just continue to charge me the $40 a month and then even after I fill out the form they continue to charge me for the $40 a month. I’ve had to call these people over four times to cancel the account. They will refuse to refund any of the money I would say stay away from these people with all you can do not risk your money with them. They do not care about you. They are terrible company. They are dishonest, and they do not deserve your business.

November 3, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Chaos

We transact £40 Million of card transactions per year through Pay360, we have no account manager or dedicated point of contact. As of 18/01/2024 Pay360 are PCI non-compliant for E-Commerce. Trying to contact through the Access Group call centre is like descending in to Dante's Inferno.

January 18, 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolutely zero support.

Absolutely zero support.

The payment page doesn't work at all. If you call them in support, they will say they will create a ticket for you, but they will not create anything.

Payments don't work, company has no support and just charging money for nothing.

September 28, 2023
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolutely useless system

Absolutely useless system. User unfriendly, randomly locks you out, and zero help or support.
If I could pay any other way I would, because yet again I’ve wasted hours trying to log in.

June 30, 2023
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This platform is a joke

This platform is a joke. You add school clubs to you basket and the go to pay and it crashes and fails. By the time you have reloaded someone else has booked or it says "max one per child" even though you haven't managed to book one for your child.

March 20, 2023
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Utterly useless

Utterly useless. Paying for school items is a joke. Every club booking is individual and muddled up! It takes forever as that’s about 5 buttons for every single breakfast club and another 5 for after school, as it insists you give permission and jumps back to the first page after every single booking. There’s 3 pages of clubs in NO sensible order to search through. Try booking a term!!! No option to book the lot or a week in one go. It just needs a table with tick boxes. How hard can that be? As for the APP. I’ve downloaded it and it simply freezes instantly so it’s all online. Come on people. This is supposed to be high tech and progress. Sorry but it’s a joke. Parents forced to use completely idiotic systems to pay for kids clubs and school meals are wasting hours battling this technology. If you’re going to provide a service, make it decent! If not please don’t bother.

December 28, 2022
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Upgrade Project

A rather elongated project due to issues with early releases not being quite up to scratch but can't fault the project management, always kept on top of our issues, and kept in regular contact throughout. Thanks

December 1, 2022
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This system is horrendous

This system is horrendous! If you're a school looking for a pay system avoid this one. It's the talk of the school parents WhatsApp chat. At first I registered and logged in no problem. Then my phone had to go back to factory settings so I lost all my logins. Every other app or site that I use I was easily able to get back in. This system asks for a load of security questions I've never set up or just freezes. It is impossible and I'm not the only one having this issue. It's been over a week now and I can't get in. I'm hoping the school will take cash so my kids don't miss out on Christmas activities that I can't get on to pay for. I also tried emailing them or help at the email they've given someone on a review below but got no reply. So capita please don't comment asking me to email you as yoy don't bother responding. Arbor is a much better system for anyone looking for an alternative.

December 6, 2022
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Reply from Pay360 an Access Company

Hi Hayley,

Thank you for your feedback and I am sorry that you are having problems with the SIMS ID login to the Education Payments system.

The login to Pay360 Education Payments is provided by ESS, not Pay360, as part of the SIMS software used by the school, and we recognise that this is not as user-friendly as it should be. We will be taking steps to replace this login mechanism, but this will take a little time. Please can I ask that you contact the school and that they raise this with the ESS/SIMS support desk.

If your previous email was to Pay360 I will also investigate why that did not receive a response, as this is not the level of service we would expect.

Thank you again for taking the time to provide feedback.

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

We had a great Capita Project Manager

We had a great Capita Project Manager. Although the resource was stretched our project manager JL always managed to get the work done in a timely manner and at times even checked the work herself. Everyone else who helped with the project also were very focused and professional.

November 23, 2022
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent service with friendly and helpful people

Our card payment gateway provider had served notice on us and as such required a rapid change of gateway. After speaking with Pay360, they put us at ease with their explanation of systems and how they would integrate with ours. All throughout our journey Pay360 were extremely helpful, going through numerous meetings to discuss system integrations and everything else. At the time of writing we have just completed migrating our final set of clients and this was all thanks to their non-stop help. I would wholly recommend this company for anyone looking for a card payment gateway provider.

September 21, 2022
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

We have been working with Pay360 as the…

We have been working with Pay360 as the payment for our new start up platform. We have been incredibly impressed with them, not only with the payment system, platform, look feel and ease of use, but also with the responsiveness of the team, their experience and their willingness to understand our business and become part of our team. We look forward to continuing to grow our business with their support. Bravo!

September 16, 2022
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Frustrating to use

I logged in at the start of term and couldn't access my daughter's account. It claims my password is wrong, yet I haven't changed it in years. Then asks me all sorts of security questions like "what's my favorite food " which I never provided in the first place so they have no record of the answers. Then it directs me to the school and offers no solution. My daughter had to go without lunch in school. Pathetic . This is it not Fort Knox: the security features are irresponsible.

September 7, 2022
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Reply from Pay360 an Access Company

Hi David. Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback about our Education Payments product.
I am sorry to hear about the difficulties you had accessing your daughter’s account. Would it be possible for you to contact us at pay360customerfeedback@capita.com so that we can assist you further? Once again, thank you for providing us with constructive feedback.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

POOR PLATFORM, HIGHLY AWKWARD TO USE

this platform is the most unfriendly experience I have had- it is highly unreliable and aggravating to use. would encourage any school facility to NOT use this company

September 2, 2022
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Reply from Pay360 an Access Company

Hi Sejal. Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback and we are sorry to hear you had issues with one of our products. I see that you have also provided us with more details by email, which is very helpful, thank you. We will be back in touch shortly.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Registration options are awful

This site uses 3rd party validation to sign you up/log in. This means you must either have an Apple/Facebook/Google/Microsoft/Twitter account. You cannot sign up with your own email address. I do not check messages sent to my email address that is signed up to social media and thus will likely miss any messages sent out by the platform. Poor design thinking!

July 29, 2022
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Reply from Pay360 an Access Company

Hi Jay. Thank you for your feedback about our Education Payments product.

Pay360 has recently taken ownership of this school payments platform and we are looking to make some improvements. I’m sorry to hear that you unhappy with the account login process. The login is provided by ESS as part of their SIMS product, so we will discuss these issues with them.

Regarding your specific concern about missing any communication, please note that you can put a separate email address on the “My Account” page in Education Payments and this is the email we will use for any communications. The social media connections are just to provide a quick and convenient way to login without having to set-up and remember another password.

Once again, thank you for taking the time to provide constructive feedback.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Pay360

Easy to implement hosted solution, responsive account manager ready to assist when required

May 17, 2022
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Consistently providing quality support

The Pay360 teams are consistently providing quality support to our business, both in terms of technical assistance and commercial advice.
From experience, we receive prompt responses to queries as well as escalation requests and always from a friendly team.

May 16, 2022
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Very bad platform

Very bad platform. Take payments then cancel them or payments fail. You try calling and you get cut off after 3 minutes. Very disappointed

May 4, 2022
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Reply from Pay360 an Access Company

Hi Paul, we understand our colleagues in the Evolve team have been keeping in touch with you and spoke to you on 6th with actions and steps being taken to resolve the issue. We understand the matter is now closed and payments are going through, but if you have any further issues please feel free to let your contact know.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

We have been using Pay360 Evolve for a…

We have been using Pay360 Evolve for a good few months now as an ISV with our own number of end users that we have moved over to the platform.

The experience has been fantastic so far, we have had extremely speedy onboarding of new merchants which has been thanks to the excellent technical team and Jamie who has especially been helpful in providing us and our end users support when most needed.

April 29, 2022
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Early Adopter Feedback

Been using Pay360 for the past year. We were one of the early adopters of the ISV platform so there has been some bumps along the way but there has been someone to always reach out to and move things along. Over the more recent 6 months or so I can not fault Pay360. We look forward to a long relationship ahead. Liam and Jamie have both been instrumental in our success.

April 26, 2022
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