Trading electronically with Salford City Council

Purchasing cards

Purchasing cards are also known as ‘p-cards’ and ‘procurement cards’. Since September 2005 Salford City Council has been offering purchasing cards as a preferred method of payment.

Self-service invoicing system

Salford City Council has developed a system that will allow suppliers and service providers to submit invoices electronically via a form on our website. There will be no cost to you for submitting invoices and if you agree to use the system to submit invoices, you will be offered 10 day payment terms rather than the standard 30 days.

Receiving orders

Salford City Council prefers to send orders electronically. This is currently via email or XML. These are the fastest, more environmentally friendly ways of sending purchase orders. To find out how you can start receiving orders electronically, please follow the links below.

Catalogues

If you have a website which is set up for ordering and your products or services are held in an online catalogue, you may be capable of punchout ordering. Punchout refers to an order which is initiated on the supplier's website but is completed and transmitted from the buyer's purchase ordering system.

Salford punch out ordering

Payment

BACS stands for Bankers Automated Clearing System. Founded over forty years ago, BACS provides a quick and easy way to make payments from one bank account to another.

BACS

Remittances

Salford now has the ability to send BACS remittances to you by email to register for this facility please contact the e-trading team using the details below.