Payment Methods

Organizations can pay for their certificates through one of the following methods:

•Pre-Purchase Account, an account within PCIT used to deduct federal fees.  Applicants can add to their pre-purchase account through Pay.gov by clicking the Add to Balance button under Financial Management or by making a manual payment at a duty station.  The duty station will enter the payment information into PCIT and will submit the check using the lockbox procedures with a PCIT generated APHIS Form 94.

NOTE:  The APHIS Form 94 report is used to track all manual payments processed by a duty station within a given period of time.  These payments may be directly related to the processing of a certificate specified as "Manual Payment" by the applicant, or they may be created when an internal user adds money to an account.  In the first case the processing duty station is set to the duty station processing the certificate.  In the second case the user may select the processing duty station from their list of duty stations.

•Manual Payment - pay-as-you-go with check or money order; submitted to the lockbox with APHIS Form 94.  Manual payments must be entered into the applicant’s pre-purchase account before processing will be complete.  Over payment will result in the remaining funds staying in the applicant’s pre-purchase account within PCIT.
•Interagency Agreements – authorizations set up within the PCIT system allowing an organization’s certificates to be processed without using the pre-payment or manual process. The estimated number of certificates required for the upcoming year recorded on FORM AD-672.

An applicant can select and/or update their payment method on the Summary/Submit page by selecting Pre-Purchase Account or Manual Payment before submitting their application. Pre-Purchase Account is the default payment method.

NOTE: If an organization has an interagency agreement, Interagency Agreement will automatically be displayed in the Payment Method section.

NOTE: The Payment Method section will only display if the application is being submitted to a Federal Duty station.

If the applicant chooses the Manual Payment as the payment, the ACO or ACO Admin will receive a message when they begin processing the application.