GoCardless unveils bill payment system with anvil. Posted on Tuesday, July 28, 2026 - 12:02 GoCardless has partnered with anvil to launch an automated payment system that will help partners manage their customer accounts more easily. The agreement aims to remove administrative burdens for MSPs, helping them secure revenue faster, reduce back-office errors, and provide customers with an effortless payment experience. The agreement connects anvil's billing system directly to the GoCardless payment network to simplify payment set-up at the first customer touchpoint: the point of order. Customers enter their bank details and authorise their Direct Debit within an electronic contract, which prompts anvil to pass this information to GoCardless, and then creates the customer and mandate ready for every future payment. Once a bill run completes, users can submit a single request that both sends the collection instructions to GoCardless and mark the corresponding invoices paid, without needing to leave the anvil platform. GoCardless manages the collection process using its AI-powered tool, Success+, to automatically retry any payments that fail. anvil is instantly notified if a payment cannot be collected, and update its records, ensuring businesses always have an accurate, real-time view of paid and outstanding bills. James Shraga, Sales and Partnerships Director at anvil (pictured) said: "anvil exists to give telecoms resellers one platform for the whole business - sales, CRM, operations and ticketing, billing and rating. This partnership extends that thinking to payments, and is the full cycle, from signed contract to collected cash, running inside the platform where our customers already manage their business." Related Topics

Sequence integrates GoCardless for Direct Debit billing. Killian Cahill · June 24, 2026 Sequence now supports GoCardless as a native payment method, bringing bank-to-bank Direct Debit collection to the UK, Europe, and the US. You can enable it on one-time invoices or billing schedules. Customers authorize a mandate through the Sequence customer portal, and invoice payment status updates in Sequence automatically when a payment completes. Why Direct Debit for B2B Customer cards can expire. When they do on a B2B contract, someone has to chase the update before the next invoice can go out and in some cases they don't even realize. At any meaningful contract volume, that becomes a regular task. Direct Debit sidesteps it - the mandate ties to a bank account, not a card, so there's nothing to renew. The cost difference is also a value-add. Card processing fees are percentage-based, so on large B2B invoices they add up fast. Direct Debit fees are fixed per transaction regardless of the invoice amount. How it works in Sequence Go to Integrations, connect your GoCardless account, then enable GoCardless on any invoice or billing schedule. On billing schedules, Sequence needs a customer selected and a product added before it can check eligibility - once both are set, the toggle becomes available. When you start the schedule, draft invoices inherit GoCardless as a payment method automatically. Customers pay through the Sequence customer portal. When they click Pay invoice, they're taken through the GoCardless hosted flow to authorize the payment - a UK Direct Debit, US ACH debit, or whichever scheme applies. Sequence prefills their details where supported to reduce manual entry. Once done, they're returned to the portal and the invoice status updates in Sequence. After the first payment, the customer's mandate appears on their page in Sequence. You can view its status and cancel it from there if needed. If you already have customers in GoCardless, you can link them to Sequence customers so existing mandates carry over without asking them to authorize again. GoCardless covers Direct Debit in 30+ countries: UK (Bacs), Eurozone (SEPA), US (ACH Pull), Australia and New Zealand (BECS), Canada (PAD), Sweden (Autogiro), and Denmark (Betalingsservice). Sequence checks country and currency eligibility automatically - if GoCardless isn't available for a given customer or currency, the toggle is disabled and explains why. Getting started GoCardless is available in Sequence now and existing customers have already enabling the integration in their Sequence workspace. If you're not on Sequence yet, book a demo. Does GoCardless work with usage-based billing? Yes. GoCardless supports variable payment amounts, so it works for contracts where the invoice value changes each month. The mandate authorizes collection up to a maximum amount, and each variable draw is notified to the customer before it goes out. Sequence computes the invoice from actual usage and GoCardless collects it. Why is the GoCardless toggle disabled? GoCardless is only available when the customer's country and the invoice currency are both supported. On billing schedules, you also need to select a customer and add a product first so Sequence can check eligibility. Why is the invoice currency locked after I enable GoCardless? Once GoCardless is enabled on an invoice, Sequence locks the currency so it can't be changed to one GoCardless doesn't support. Where do customers pay? Customers pay in the Sequence customer portal. Pay invoice opens the GoCardless hosted flow, then returns them to the portal once done. How do mandates work? After a customer pays, their mandate appears on the customer page in Sequence with a status: Active (ready for future payments), Pending (still being set up, common in some ACH flows), or Consumed (used for a one-off instant payment). You can cancel an active mandate from the customer page. Can I link existing GoCardless customers? Yes. From the customers table, open the menu for a customer and choose Link to GoCardless. This connects the Sequence customer to an existing GoCardless customer and brings across any existing mandates, so you can keep collecting without asking them to authorize again. Which countries and currencies are supported? GoCardless covers 30+ countries including the UK (Bacs), Eurozone (SEPA), US (ACH Pull), Australia and New Zealand (BECS), Canada (PAD), Sweden (Autogiro), and Denmark (Betalingsservice). Sequence checks eligibility automatically when you enable it. Stay ahead of the curve. See how Sequence can transform your billing.

GoCardless unleashes 'Recurring Pay by Bank' to challenge Visa and Mastercard's £1.5B UK chokehold. At the opening of the Money20/20 Europe conference, global bank payment heavyweight GoCardless joined an alliance of banks, building societies, and fintechs to back the live launch of the UK Payments Initiative (UKPI). The new industry-led payment scheme is designed to anchor the next generation of open banking infrastructure across the United Kingdom. The immediate commercial fruit of this alliance is the official introduction of GoCardless's Recurring Pay by Bank. This open banking-powered solution delivers recurring, flexible, and automated account-to-account (A2A) transactions, providing a direct response to the UK's National Payment Vision (NPV) mandate to foster domestic competition, payment resilience, and infrastructure innovation. Dismantling the legacy retail duopoly. For decades, traditional card networks have maintained an expensive grip on the UK retail ecosystem. Card payments currently comprise a staggering 84 per cent of all UK retail spending by turnover. This legacy reliance comes at a steep price, costing British merchants an estimated £1.5 billion in annual transaction fees driven almost entirely by the near-duopoly of Visa and Mastercard. Recurring open banking transactions offer the first genuine, low-cost domestic alternative to these international networks. By bypassing card rails entirely, the UKPI scheme allows businesses to establish independent, localized payment pathways that offer instant authorization, automated flexibility, and bank-grade security. High merchant demand and Gen Z adoption. Comprehensive market insights compiled by independent insights agency Opinium highlight a massive appetite for alternative recurring revenue rails among both merchants and consumers: * Cash Flow Optimization: An overwhelming 89 per cent of recurring revenue businesses believe this A2A technology will significantly optimize their day-to-day cash flow. * Operational Cost Reduction: A further 91 per cent of corporate decision-makers expect the system to sharply reduce their payment processing overheads. * Aggressive First-Movers: Nearly half of the businesses surveyed (49 per cent) state they intend to be early adopters of the technology. * Demographic Shift: While 38 per cent of general consumers are open to trying recurring bank-payout methods, that figure spikes to 60 per cent among Gen Z shoppers. With the UKPI architecture now live, these recurring open banking capabilities are cleared for immediate deployment across utilities, public sector bodies, financial services, and charitable organizations. Overcoming open banking friction. While the broader industry rollout of recurring open banking is still in its infancy, GoCardless has built specific optimization features into its platform to handle early-stage ecosystem challenges. The company completed its first real-world live transaction earlier this year on behalf of Jellyfish Energy, using the milestone to fine-tune three core stability features: * Intelligent Routing: To ensure full payer coverage from day one, the platform uses intelligent routing to automatically shift consumers to traditional Direct Debit rails if a specific bank's open banking API is temporarily unavailable. * Data-Driven Checkout ('Bank Guess'): Leveraging 15 years of transactional data - during which GoCardless has interacted with 80 per cent of all UK payers - the platform auto-fills checkout credentials to minimize user friction. * Enterprise Uptime: The platform features industry-leading uptime configurations to eliminate the operational reliability concerns frequently cited by early enterprise adopters. "For a long time, the UK has been waiting for a genuine alternative to traditional card payments," said Shaun Puckrin, chief product officer at GoCardless. "By launching an industry-wide scheme for recurring Pay by Bank, we will bring real competition to a market that's been dominated for decades by a costly card duopoly. This milestone establishes the UK as a country that owns its financial future... it is ideally placed to become the foundation of agentic commerce - where AI agents, automated systems, and instant payments converge." Richard Koch, managing director at UKPI, added that bringing GoCardless's 15 years of specialized account-to-account experience to the steering table is vital to converting open banking from a regulatory concept into a trusted, everyday consumer tool. Managing over $130 billion in annual transaction volume across 30 countries, GoCardless's infrastructure pivot signifies that the next era of global billing will be fought on bank rails, not plastic.