Set up how your services link to GOV.UK Pay services

Each GOV.UK Pay service can take payments from one or more of your services.

GOV.UK Pay services are free, and there’s no limit to how many you can create.

Link your services to a single GOV.UK Pay service

You can use one GOV.UK Pay service to take payments for a group of your services, if you need to:

manage your staff members’ access to the whole group in the GOV.UK Pay admin tool
manage your account settings for the whole group, for example which card types you accept
receive payments from the whole group in one payout - if your PSP is Stripe

Create one GOV.UK Pay service.
Use API keys or payment links from the GOV.UK Pay service in all of the services in your group.

You will not be able to:

give your services different names - but you can still show your users a different payment descriptions for each service
send payments to different bank accounts

If you need to know which service each payment came from when you report on payments, you can:

add references and descriptions that say which service a payment is from when you create that payment
use custom metadata
use different payment links

You should create a separate GOV.UK Pay service for each of your services if you need to do any of the following:

give each service its own name on the GOV.UK Pay payment pages
send each service’s payments to different bank accounts
give your staff members access to each service separately in the GOV.UK Pay admin tool
manage the settings for each service separately, for example which card types you accept