What is Illinois E-Pay

Illinois State Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka is proud to sponsor Illinois Funds E-PAY, a state-of-the-art, 24/7/365, self-service, Electronic Payments Program allowing your constituents to pay bills on their own timetable without leaving their home. E-Pay is designed for local governments and state agencies to offer users of its services easier, faster payment choices. E-Pay participants can now accept credit card, bankcard and/or electronic check payments over the Internet, in the office at the point-of-service, and via our exciting, NEW Speech Recognition IVR (Interactive Voice Response) system. This human dialogue, plain language system is accessible from any telephone - cell, wired, or wireless - anywhere in the world and becomes your self-service payment window 24 hours every day. If that's not enough, E-Pay now offers electronic funds transfer (checking) on two services: Internet and Over the Counter (OTC).


For added security, the OTC system images the check and stores that image for seven years. What's more, E-Pay now offers check truncation that converts paper checks to an electronic equivalent for lightning fast execution through the Federal Reserve. The OTC system processes single or recurring transactions charging your receivables to your user bankcards, checking or savings accounts. Here's a novel service - ask about Direct Recovery of bounced checks - it's a zero-cost add-on that you will love. Each of these 21st century services deposits your revenue directly to your Illinois Funds Money Market Fund account.


The Illinois Funds E-Pay Program has been quoted as "Cutting Edge Technology for local government," therefore we are pleased to market these services and are now accepting applications. Please contact our office at 217-558-4981 or email us at epay@illinoisepay.com.