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Use Welsh on your payment pages

GOV.UK Pay supports Welsh language payment pages.

You can also create payment links in Welsh.

To use Welsh, include "language": "cy" in the API request when you create a new payment.

This example request creates a £50 fine that will use Welsh language payment pages:

POST /v1/payments

{
  "amount": 5000,
  "reference" : "WA5678",
  "description": "Talu dirwy.",
  "return_url": "https://your.service.gov.uk/completed",
  "language": "cy"
}

If you do not include the language parameter in your request, GOV.UK Pay defaults to English language payment pages.

Your users see a description of the payment when they pay. If you use Welsh language payment pages, you may also want to use Welsh text in the description.

GOV.UK Pay does not automatically translate emails into Welsh. If you want to send your own emails in Welsh, stop GOV.UK Pay sending emails:

  1. Sign in to the GOV.UK Pay admin tool.
  2. Select your service from My services.
  3. Select Settings.
  4. Under About your service, select Email notifications.
  5. Change Payment confirmation emails to Off.

Contact us if you’d like us to develop a feature to automatically translate emails into Welsh.

Add a Welsh service name

You can show a Welsh service name on payments that use Welsh language payment pages.

  1. Sign in to the GOV.UK Pay admin tool.
  2. Select the service you want to add a Welsh name to.
  3. Select Settings.
  4. Under About your service, select Service name.
  5. Select Add Welsh service name.

Your users will see:

  • the Welsh service name when making payments with Welsh language payment pages
  • the English service name when making payments with English language payment pages