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What's the difference between a periodical payment and a direct debit?

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Question added by Siham Amer , Financial Analyst , Noor Al Hikmah Group
Date Posted: 2019/01/30
Anthony Hall
by Anthony Hall , IT Expert , Itissalat Al-maghrib

How can we ensure the security and transparency of transactions for all purchases made on digital platforms?

Anandasubramanian pranatharthy Codangudi
by Anandasubramanian pranatharthy Codangudi , Principal Consultant – Anandasubramanian C Pranatharthy , Infosys Limited

Periodical payment is a Push payment sent by you to a receiver on a specific day that is processed IF you have sufficient balance. A direct debit is a Pull payment where another party attempts to pull money from your account once or multiple times. The party does not know if your account has balance to honor it.

Dennis Dalomias
by Dennis Dalomias , Accountant , Arabian Pipeline & Services Co Ltd (ANABEEB)

A periodic payment is payment a specific time frame. It may be monthly, quarterly, biannual, and annualy. Periodic payment can be made by cash, check, and wire transfer or direct debit.

Direct debit could also be a periodic payment but it is initiated by the bank and directly deducted from the bank account of the depositor. Direct debit is made by the bank with a prior approval/authorization from the depositor.

Edward McBride
by Edward McBride , specialist , specey

Good evening. There is no problem with opening an online payment account, you just need to use the services of the Virtualpay online payment provider, check their website https://virtual-pay.io/industries/. Plus, if you need payment solutions that are secure, stable, resilient, and can handle high volume payments to grow and grow your business, they've got you covered.

Ashraf E. Mahmoud (PhD)
by Ashraf E. Mahmoud (PhD) , University Lecturer, Freelancer Consultant and Trainer for Int'l Business & Banking TF. , FreeLancer

Thanks for invitation,

Periodical payment is a fixed time fram charging payment.

Whereas, 

A direct payment is an immediate charging payment.

Amin Khan
by Amin Khan , Chief Accountant , SRG Group - Global Travel Solutions

Periodic payments are being raised by the organaization on periodic basis such as staff payrolls, insurance premiums, rentals, for suppliers etc. While Direct debits are done for specific payments on behalf of standing insturctions given to their bank, bank directly paid to the authorized beneficiary when the payment is due without receiving the payment request form account holder/organiazation. 

  

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