Web Explorer 11 retirement – what does it imply for you?

Dougie Belmore is Chief Funds Officer of Pay.UK, the corporate which was created to carry collectively the UK’s foremost fee schemes, together with Bacs, in 2018; Dougie is answerable for the operation of Direct Debit and Bacs Direct Credit score in addition to Sooner Funds and cheques.

Web Explorer 11 (IE11) is the final man standing in Microsoft’s line of IE browsers. Initially, Microsoft had deliberate to retire IE11 in 2025 however, final yr, the agency introduced the date had been introduced ahead to 2022 – 15 June, to be exact, which is just weeks away.

We’re all used to working techniques being up to date on a frequent foundation – as an illustration, Microsoft has launched Home windows 11 because it retires IE11 (which can add some confusion) – and new net browsers do appear to spring up out of nowhere. So why does this retirement matter?

In easy phrases, IE11 will exit of assist on 15 June; relying in your model of Home windows working system, it could cease working altogether at that time.

And this might imply you’ll be able to’t entry Bacs providers. After this date, companies which entry the Cost Companies Web site (PSW) utilizing PKI (smartcard resolution) to obtain reviews, might want to arrange Microsoft’s IE11 compatibility mode which is accessible as a part of the Edge browser.

We’ve spent fairly a little bit of time testing this compatibility mode, and it’s the best choice for our PSW customers. As we have been going by way of that testing course of – and repair customers have been a part of that – we used our expertise to create a step-by-step information to the way you set it up.

There are additionally some necessary concerns in the case of the working system you could have in place – you’ll want Home windows 10 or 11 for the Edge compatibility mode to work, and your inside IT assist will be capable to advise on that.

So, as we strategy Microsoft’s 15 June deadline you will have to just be sure you take the required motion, or threat struggling to entry Bacs providers.

We’ve already written to all our impacted service customers, and there may be loads of info on our web site: www.wearepay.uk/IE11. We even have a devoted IE11 group to assist our Bacs service customers by way of the modifications. You may name them on 0808 1000 423, between 0800 – 1800, Monday to Friday.