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Reduce the hassle of payment disbursements
Managing the day-to-day function of government has lots of moving parts, especially when it comes to administration, accounting, and one-time disbursements. And two of the biggest headaches that can throw a wrench into any operation? Paper checks and unclaimed property.
Issuing checks for payment comes with a lengthy list of challenges, including:
Reconciling uncashed checks
Work release and parolee administration
Juror administration and payments
Restitution, bond, and child support payments
Unclaimed property and escheatment
Check fraud
The high cost of issuing paper checks
Cash handling security issues
Stop payment fees for lost/stolen checks
Operational inefficiency
Smart, connected commerce for government
Rapid’s solutions for government and municipalities have everything you need, from managing automated disbursements and one-time disbursements, to paying jurors, restitution recipients, inmates, and more.
From municipal and county, to state and federal courts, CourtFunds is the contactless way to pay everyone accurately and on time, no matter what part of the transaction they play a part in — jury payments, restitution, child support, bond, witnesses, and more.
From county jails and state prisons, to halfway houses and State Departments of Corrections, ReleasePay is the hassle-free way to pay inmates and parolees accurately and on time.
Regardless of jurisdiction — municipal, county, state, or federal — one challenge your court likely faces is constituent engagement. With rapidENGAGE, your court can communicate and engage more effectively with constituents on their favorite platform — their mobile phones.
Currencie is a Disbursement as a Service (DaaS) platform. Make payments, both individually and en mass, via an electronic payment platform. Recipients of funds can access money online through a variety of claim options, including bank transfers, PayPal, check, charity, gift card, or pre-paid card.
Rave reviews from our government clients
“CourtFunds is such a great product that we were so excited to finally have a jury trial so we could try out the product!
It was such an easy process and experience for us. I plan on telling everyone how smoothly it went to set up and use. I can’t imagine why more counties are not set up with CourtFunds!”
— Cindy L. Joosten, Clerk of Circuit Court, Wood County, WI
“Working with our previous disbursements vendor was a nightmare. [A resident would] be at the grocery store and have to put all their food back because the card wouldn’t work, or they were at a hotel trying to book a room for their first night out and they couldn’t get to any of their money. Something was always going wrong, and we didn’t have a dedicated contact person. It was hard to resolve anything in a timely manner.
I can’t say enough great things about working with Rapid. The customer service has been amazing, and our representative is always available to work with my team and myself whenever we have a question or need to make a change to our process.”
— Melissa Brooke, Centralized Inmate Banking Unit, Kansas Department of Corrections
“We implemented CourtFunds in January of 2020, and we have had such a positive response from our jurors! Jurors love the fact that they receive their card the first day of service and the funds are loaded on Friday by 5:00 P.M. — no waiting on a check, which in our case, took up to two weeks or more, depending on where the Finance Department was on their check runs.
CourtFunds has been a LIFESAVER for the process of getting our jurors paid and saving the taxpayers of Horry County money!”
— Lara C. Robinson, Juror Coordinator, Horry County, SC
“[ReleasePay has] saved us 30 minutes to an hour a day of hand-entering information and printing and mailing checks. And of course, we don’t go through as many checks as we used to. It’s helped us cut down quite a bit on that cost. We don’t receive nearly as many phone calls or visits from former residents asking about their money or coming by to pick up a check, since they get it all that last day as they’re leaving.”
— Joann Henscheid, Sr. Financial Specialist, Idaho Department of Correction
Accept credit card payments from anyone
As a payment facilitator, or PayFac, for over 300 organizations, Rapid can take care of all of your merchant service needs. Accept credit card payments from anyone — from vendors, to businesses, to individuals. We have the tools and expertise to help you streamline the flow of money.