Financial Management

PCIT manages certificate payments for certificates issued by PPQ and for those States and Counties that have opted to have their fees collected in PCIT. These fees are collected when the phytosanitary certificate is issued. PCIT also manages payments for certificates issued outside of PCIT.

Each PCIT applicant organization has a pre-purchase account within PCIT. The organization can fund the account using PCIT Financial Management to link to Department of Treasury’s Pay.gov application. Deposits via Pay.gov are credits to the account. The account is debited when a certificate is issued.

Optionally, applicants can provide credit cards to PPQ staff to update their organizations’ accounts using a similar Financial Management link. Credit cards are processed via the PCIT link to Department of Treasury’s Pay.gov application. State/County ACOs can also add funds to pre-purchase accounts using the PCIT link to Department of Treasury’s Pay.gov application.

PCIT also enables an ECS to set up interagency agreements with organizations, allowing certificate payment to be handled outside of PCIT.

NOTE: A list of participating States and Counties is available on the PCIT Help/Contact Us / State/County Information / State/County Fee Participation Contact Information page. Please verify that the duty station(s) you submit to participate in PCIT fee collection before depositing funds to cover their fees.

Adding funds to a pre-purchase account:

•	As an applicant user

•	As an internal user

Charging a certificate issued outside of PCIT,