Payment Methods Associated with Offline Payments

For offline payments, agency staff can now choose from many options to indicate what the payment method was, such as offline electronic payment, offline cash, offline credit card, and so on.

Offline Payment Page

Offline Payment Page

When recording offline payments, agency cashiers can specify the payment method used to provide more detailed reporting and accounting of payments collected outside of Oracle Permitting and Licensing.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

Lookup codes for offline payment methods were added to added to lookup type:

ORA_PSC_CC_PAYMENT_METHOD_CD

Enable Agency Staff to record the payment method associated to the offline payment for:

  • subsequent reporting based on payment method
  • subsequent accounting based on payment method. For example, debit one general ledger account for wire transfers vs another general ledger account for credit cards.

Key Resources

  • See Using Community Development Permits, "Managing Permits," Working with Fees and Payments on the Oracle Help Center.