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title: "Submitting third-party payment files to Cintra for processing"
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description: "Streamline your payroll with Cintra's Pay Third Party feature, allowing easy payments to unions, childcare, and more in a single file submission."
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# Submitting third-party payment files to Cintra for processing

Similar to paying **HMRC**, the **Pay Third Party** functionality allows you to combine payments, from different payrolls to third parties, into a single payment file and makes a payment run to a third party person or company/organisation. A third party payment can be for union dues or child care etc.

Now that you have created a third party payment file, you can you can use **Cintra** to pay your **HMRC** payments.

## To submit a third party payment file

1. Navigate to the **Process Backs for Third Party Payments** form.
  - Go to **Cintra iQ**: Payroll > Payroll Tools > Paying Out > Pay Third Parties. Create the Third Party Payment file.
2. Click on the **Transmit** button. The **Cintra Data Transfer Client** window appears.
3. Enter your secure **Username** and **Password**.
4. Click the **Next** button.
  - Where you have multiple payrolls, select the payroll the payment relates to and click Next. The Review Previous Submissions form appears.
5. Click the **Next** button. The **Upload BACS file to Cintra** form appears.
6. Amend payment date to date that payment is due with third parties.
  - The payment date always defaults to next available pay date.
7. Click the **Next** button. The **Verify Totals** form appears.
8. Select the **I confirm all payments are correct** option.
9. Click the **Next** button. The **Submission Complete** form appears.
10. Click the **Close** button.