We are pleased to offer our customers several alternate payment locations for their convenience.
George A. Long, City Manager, Bartow, Florida

Florida based payday loan provider Amscot Financial said today it has completed an agreement with the City of Bartow to allow municipal utility customers to make bill payments at any Amscot location in Central Florida.

Beginning immediately, utility customers of the City of Bartow can pay their bills in person at any of Amscot's 174 branches, located in 15 counties. Amscot charges a $1 convenience fee for the service. Amscot collects and aggregates the funds and automatically transfers them into the City's accounts.

The service allows customers to take advantage of Amscot's convenient hours and locations. All Amscot branches are open seven days a week, 365 days a year. Thirty two of Amscot's branches are open 24 hours a day.

Amscot introduced bill payments to its menu of financial services in 2005. Today, Amscot acts as a bill payment agent for utilities and local governments such as Orlando Utilities Commission, Kissimmee Utility Authority, Lakeland Electric, TECO, Progress Energy and Bright House. Amscot also takes traffic fine and court payments for clerks of the court in Orange, Brevard, Hillsborough and Pinellas counties.

"We are pleased to offer our customers several alternate payment locations for their convenience," said Bartow City Manager George A. Long.

"We are very proud to be working with the City of Bartow," said Ian MacKechnie, founder and CEO of Amscot Financial. "We offer this service because consumers want to be able to make their payments on their own time and at a location convenient to them. We have 12 branches in Polk County alone. It's very easy to find us."

Founded in 1989, Amscot Financial employs more than 2,000 associates who work at the company's 174 retail branches.