Direct Bank Integration for Legal Firms

Boost efficiency, minimise fraud, and stay compliant with AccessPay’s Bank Connectivity

AccessPay connects your Practice Management System directly to banks, enabling secure, automated payments across CHAPS, Faster Payments, BACS, and international transactions.

Process more payments in less time, reduce operational costs, minimise fraud risk, and future-proof your operations.

Join the law firms already using AccessPay
to process payments

Why connect your back-office system
to your bank?

Increase
efficiency

Enable cashiers to process higher volumes of payments & reconciliations in less time.

Reduce
human error

Remove opportunities for payments to be mis-typed or for payment files to be manipulated.

Reduce
chance of fraud

Protect your clients by tightening your payment controls and screening for suspicious & erroneous payments, before the point of submission.

"AccessPay was an absolute no-brainer. We realised that we had spent more in the first couple of weeks developing our in-house client payment solution than it cost us to implement AccessPay and pay for a year’s service"

Why act now?

Law firms can no longer afford to delay. With rising fraud risks, new security standards, and the mounting cost of manual processes, automation is essential for secure growth.

ISO 20022 compliance

Ensure successful CHAPS payments by staying compliant with ISO 20022, minimising the complexity of these new standards and reducing risk of financial penalties.

 

Enhanced fraud prevention

Protect your clients’ and your reputation by screening payments for errors and potential fraud and by verifying payee details with enhanced security checks.

Reduced reliance on cashiers

Automate your client and supplier payments to overcome hiring challenges, reducing dependency on cashiers for routine transactions while scaling your operations seamlessly.

 

Reputation protection

Avoid reputational damage from incidents of fraud and error in payments, delayed payments and compliance failures. Automation helps secure client trust and maintain a strong industry reputation.

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How AccessPay can help


Catalyse your growth by enabling cashiers to process significantly more payments in less time by removing manual touch points from your process.


Robust security controls – by dictating user access and permissions as your see fit and using a host of fraud prevention tools such as our Confirmation of Payee solution Account Name Verification, Sanctions Screening and Payment Screening to flag suspicious or erroneous payments.


Ensure compliance with the ongoing changes in security standards and payment format requirements, to avoid payment failures or sanctions from the SRA.


Easily view your cash positions and transaction history across your entire banking estate without needing to access bank portals, download statements or collate transaction data using excel.

See how AccessPay can transform your payment processes and reduce fraud risk. Schedule a demo today.

Get in touch with one of our experts by completing our contact form.

Empower growth with automated, secure processes

Manual financial processes can stifle your firm’s ability to grow.

AccessPay enables you to verify payees without the need for phone calls or redacted bank statements and can automate a number of cumbersome steps such as uploading payment files, keying-in transactions, downloading banks statement and monitoring bank portals to record credits & debits in your CMS.

By reducing the reliance on cashiers for these tasks, your team can take on more clients, manage more payments, improve customer service and minimise the risks that come with managing client money.

Many firms have found they can reduce the headcount involved in their payment processes allowing cashiers to focus on more value-added tasks to grow the business.

"AccessPay was an absolute no-brainer. We realised that we had spent more in the first couple of weeks developing our in-house client payment solution than it cost us to implement AccessPay and pay for a year’s service"

FAQs

Does AccessPay support multi-currency and international payments?

AccessPay supports multi-currency and cross-border payments, enabling international transactions without needing online banking portals.

What practice management systems do you integrate with?

AccessPay integrates with any practice management system, CMS or back-office system that generates a payment file.

Which banks does AccessPay connect to?

AccessPay is a bank-agnostic platform. Which means we can connect to all 11,000 SWIFT member banks, or any bank capable of supporting a host-to-host (H2H) connection.

We currently help hundreds of clients connect to Barclays, HSBC, JPMorgan, Citi, RBS, Societe Generale, Lloyds, Standard Chartered and many more.

What is AccessPay’s implementation time?

Implementation typically takes 4–12 weeks, depending on bank connections and project complexity, with phased rollouts possible for quicker results on larger projects.

Is AccessPay ISO 20022 compliant?

Yes, AccessPay is ISO 20022 compatible, supporting required fields for CHAPS payments and ensuring firms meet international banking standards.

Find more about our ISO 20022 resource hub.

Ready to increase efficiency and compliance while protecting client money?

If you’re looking for support with your firm’s next direct bank integration project, you’ve come to the right place.

Schedule a meeting now with one of our legal experts by selecting one of the available meeting slots.

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