Mastercard Incorporated
Systems and methods for bill payment using transaction cards within a financial institution payment platform

Abstract:

Described herein are card-based bill payment systems and methods enabling bill payment using a transaction card within a consumer financial institution (CFI) payment platform and enabling real-time payment confirmation messaging is provided. The bill payment system includes a bill pay exchange (BPX) computing system that receives a payment initiation message from a CFI, the payment initiation message including tokenized payment credentials associated with a transaction card used to initiate a bill payment transaction with the CFI, a bill payment amount, and a biller identifier. The BPX computing system also identifies a biller service provider (BSP) associated with the biller, and transmit the payment initiation message to the BSP to initiate authorization of the bill payment transaction. The bill payment system further includes a payment processing network associated with the BPX computing system and configured to implement authorization of the bill payment transaction according to a card-based transaction model.