Manual Payment

Organizations can pay for their certificates by providing their processing ACOs with a manual payment. Selecting manual payment on the application is simply an indication to the processing duty station that a check or money order should have been provided by the applicant. When a duty station receives a manual payment (check or money order) the duty station will update the applicant's pre-purchase account prior to processing the application. All applications processed by a duty station will only pull funds from the applicant's pre-purchase account.

NOTE: You should NEVER create a new applicant organization account for a manual payment received from an applicant that submits applications within the PCIT system.

You should follow the routine processing steps as described in the ACO & ACO Admins Processing Applications and then complete the following steps to update your pre-purchase account or to charge for certificates issued outside of PCIT:

1.	Select the Financial Management link at the left side of the screen. RESULT: The Applicant Organization Financial Transactions page appears.

To search for an organization to update your pre-purchase account or to charge for certificates issued outside of PCIT, enter the organization’s name (or part of the name using wildcards “*”) and click the Search button.
RESULT: A list of organizations that meet the search criteria appear below the search text.

3.	Create a new organization if needed.

4.	Locate the desired organization; click the corresponding Transactions button. RESULT: The Applicant Organization Financial Transactions page displays.

5.	In the Update Account drop-down list, you can either choose to add funds to a pre-purchase account or to charge a certificate issued outside of PCIT.