PaymentExpress® Delivers Expanded Payment Options to the Massachusetts Educator Licensure

July 15, 2024

Grant Street Group successfully launched its PaymentExpress solution for online payments with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). PaymentExpress now provides a secure and efficient online payment processing system for DESE’s educator license applications.

Through PaymentExpress, DESE customers, including teachers, administrators, and other educators, can now seamlessly apply for, renew, and pay for their licenses online via credit card, e-check, PayPal, Google Pay.

“Transitioning to a new payment processing platform can be an intimidating process. However, the Grant Street staff made it feel simple given their knowledge, experience, organized process, and professionalism,” said Brian Devine, DESE Director of Educator Licensure. “In addition to offering applicants for educator licensure traditional payment options such as credit cards and e-checks, we are excited to introduce new payment options such as PayPal and Google Pay.”

Along with modernizing DESE educator license and renewal payments for an optimal customer experience, PaymentExpress provides a feature-rich solution equipped with customizable unified reporting, chargeback handling, and robust data analytics tools with valuable payment trends and insights.

“We are glad to welcome another happy client in the Massachusetts state government,” said Tim Lowrance, PaymentExpress’s Business Development Strategist.

The benefits of PaymentExpress include seamless integration with county and state systems of record, increased digital payment adoption, robust security, faster checkout times, reduced e-check returns, and improved reconciliation, account balancing, and reporting, to name a few.
For more information, contact Tim Lowrance at (412) 514-5816 or via email at Tim.Lowrance@GrantStreet.com.


About Grant Street Group
Grant Street Group specializes in cloud-based government solutions for tax collection, e-payments, and auctions. Every year, we process over $67 billion in tax payments and $28 billion in e-payments. Over the past 20 years, Grant Street has hosted online auctions of financial instruments exceeding $13 trillion. Our innovative software products help government entities enhance service delivery, efficiency, and operational excellence.
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