Faster Payment System fee structure – Technical Accreditation

A fee of £10,000 is payable to us upon successful conclusion of the technical accreditation. No additional fee is payable to us for any subsequent test(s) undertaken against the vendor/aggregator’s same software version.

We expect vendors/aggregators to re-accredit if a material change is made to the gateway (i.e. a new or updated software version). A re-certification fee of £5,000 is payable to us upon successful conclusion of re-accreditation testing.

Going forward, vendors/aggregators will also be expected to re-accredit their solution annually to ensure their Faster Payment System gateway software meets the Faster Payment System rules. There is no fee payable to us for the annual re-accreditation of software version that already holds a valid technical accreditation.

Vendors/aggregators are not required by us to retain an Ascert test environment indefinitely to remain accredited. However vendors/aggregators may find this of use for annual re-accreditation and/or regression testing.

Should a vendor/aggregator choose to relinquish connection to the Ascert test environment, there will be re-connection fees payable to Ascert and a timeframe for re-establishment.

If there are any updates to the accreditation test pack, we will send out communications and advise whether any mandatory retesting is necessary. Should mandatory retesting be required, there will be no fee payable to us provided the vendor/aggregator software version has not been updated.