The system is free of charge to registered vendors with Internet access, and is free of charge to participating Federal agencies. Once all the necessary information has been provided and the agreement has been finalized, the agency will notify its vendors that PAID is available. Vendors interested in participating in PAID should first check the list of participating agencies to determine if any of the agencies paying them are participants. The PAID webmaster will verify and activate the vendor's registration, and the vendor will receive e-mail notification of acceptance. PAID only contains data on payments made by participating agencies to registered vendors.
Vendors can only access their own payment data.
Given the amount of remittance information contained in a CTX, it is assumed that vendors receiving those transactions have existing agreements with their financial institutions to provide them with the remittance information. After receiving the registration acceptance notice, a vendor can log into PAID and query on payments by date, date range, invoice number, dollar amount, agency, or any combination thereof. If a vendor registers for e-mail delivery of remittance data, they will receive a message containing their remittance information. An on-line demonstration is available at PAID Demo . Data should be available within 24 hours of the date of payment.