Payment Methods
– Credit/Debit card
Please Note: Only “Chip-and-Pin” credit or debit cards can be accepted for payment by the CRO.
- for online filing of forms through CORE.
- for purchasing documents online.
- for making a deposit to a Customer Account.
– Customer Accounts
- when filing documents online through software packages – the fees are automatically charged to a Customer Account.
- for purchasing documents online.
- when filing online through CORE.
- when filing manual/paper documents – the fee can be charged to a Customer Account by attaching a Payment Authorisation Form (PAF) to the document or if accompanied by letter/email authorisation.
– Postal money order/bank draft/cheque
- When filing manual/paper documents.
The postal money order, bank draft or cheque should be made payable to the Companies Registration Office (full title). Foreign currency, sterling and euro items drawn on banks outside the Republic of Ireland are not acceptable, because of service charges for cheque clearance. Payments from outside the Republic of Ireland for document registration, document requests and miscellaneous services must be on a euro denominated bank draft drawn on a bank in the Irish clearing system.
The CRO does not accept this method of payment to top up a CRO Customer Account or pay online filing fees.
– Cash
- When filing manual/paper documents.
Please note:
– It is not advisable to send cash by post to the CRO. The CRO accepts no liability for cash lost in the postal system.
– The CRO does not accept this method of payment to top up a CRO Customer Account or pay online filing fees.
– Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT)
- For making a deposit to a Customer Account. More information is available here Using CRO Account System.
Following legal advice received by CRO, and as part of CRO`s intention to move to a full e-payments based system for all monies charged and received from customers, it is the CRO`s intention to phase out the acceptance of historic credit notes.
This commenced on 1 January 2020, and will be implemented on a rolling six year basis. As such, all credit notes issued by CRO prior to 1 January 2014 will not be honoured as payment from customers for either charges for services or customer account receipts.
In order to address a growing problem with dishonoured (bounced) cheques, the following measures are strictly enforced by CRO:
- (1) CRO does not accept cheques from companies/ presenters who have defaulted on payment in the past. In such cases, until such time as the outstanding debt to CRO is cleared, payment for all future filings must be by cash, postal money order or bank draft.
(2) CRO rejects submissions where a cheque bounces. Where a cheque used to pay for a submission is returned uncashed by the bank, the submission will be rejected for registration unless the cheque is replaced by cash, money/ postal order or bank draft within 14 days.