As Australia’s transition to modern A2A payments including via the NPP continues, there’s growing interest in adopting near real-time, data-rich payments for high-volume ‘bulk’ payments. Bulk payments today represent a significant portion of payroll, supplier and government transactions.
Over the past two years, AP+ has engaged extensively with financial institutions, industry bodies and end users to understand how bulk payments could be supported to ensure a smooth, orderly shift of bulk payments to the NPP.
Through this work, we have developed a proposed set of enhancements to NPP payments to support bulk payment use-cases and we’re considering the participation model that would enable these features.
If you’re a stakeholder, we welcome your input to help ensure the bulk solution is practical, inclusive and aligned to real-world needs as we modernise Australia’s payments infrastructure.
The bulk payments solution paper for public feedback and more information can be found here: https://www.auspayplus.com.au/stakeholder-engagement/public-consultations
Feedback should be submitted to [email protected] by 5pm on Wednesday 8 April 2026.
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