Do Not Waste Your Time or Your Money on PaymentWorks
February 03, 2025

Do Not Waste Your Time or Your Money on PaymentWorks

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with PaymentWorks

If you only work with domestic
US Banks and US citizens this might be fine for your business. If you work with foreign
vendors this system will cause you nothing but trouble. The only available language is English. The banking information defaults to check
payments which take 45 days to arrive overseas.
The software is poorly designed. The customer service agents are
non-existent. Service just refers
the customer back to the paying institution which cannot access any of the data
in PaymentWorks.

This has been the single worst software experience of my
30-year administrative career. Payees experience difficulty completing the
registration. They cannot understand how to enter the banking information. They
cannot understand the terminology. Foreign vendors request
check payments which take 45 days to arrive. People keep emailing me to ask when they are going to receive funds. Check payments cannot be tracked. I spend all my time at work now dealing with
angry vendors and the work never really gets “done”.

Pros

  • The data is kept secure

Cons

  • Software design especially in regards to entering foreign bank accounts
  • Customer service never really assists the customer
  • Admins are not notified when there is incomplete registration or problems with the information entered. We have to wait for the customer to contact us and by that time they are very angry and their payment is very delayed
  • The only language available is English. The tax forms are only available in English
  • Zero return on investment. It takes 3 people to do the work that one person used to be able to manage.
  • The only way that I can find out if there are problems is if the customer contacts me about non-payment.
  • Zero integration with our accounting software. New vendors have to be manually transferred from PaymentWorks to the accounting software. Updates to PaymentWorks have to be manually carried from one system to the other. There are no notifications when these processes have been completed
Administrators hate the system because they cannot see any information in order to assist customers. Customers hate it because registration is lengthy and difficult and only available in English.
I was not involved in this choice and the people who chose the system are not end users of this software. The end user experience was never considered when this decision was made. Admins and customers hate PaymentWorks. It is only effective at wasting your time and money and employee resources.

Do you think PaymentWorks delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with PaymentWorks's feature set?

No

Did PaymentWorks live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of PaymentWorks go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy PaymentWorks again?

No

Appropriate only for US customers with domestic banking institutions who speak English fluently.

Not appropriate for any foreign vendor to get paid in less than 6 months. The data is poorly designed. The software defaults to domestic banking information such as routing number. Vendors then choose check payments overseas which take 45 days and usually never arrive. I end up submitting the same payments over and over. Customers are always angry and I have no ability to help them.

PaymentWorks Feature Ratings

Anomaly Detection
1
Timely Monitoring
1
ID Verification
1
User Interface
1

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