Month 2025-07: Focused on delivering a user-centric payment failure experience for the DEFRA/epr-payment-frontend, with bilingual support and clearer contact instructions. Introduced global constants for customer service contact information and refactored the display logic to present consistent guidance on the payment failure page. This work reduces support friction, improves localization, and enhances maintainability across languages and deployments.

June 2025 focused on delivering and stabilizing the Online Payment Insertion API for the DEFRA e-prayment service. Delivered a backward-compatible v2 with RequestorType support, enabling richer payment request context while preserving existing integrations. Implemented code changes, added necessary DTOs and validation rules, and refactored mappings to support the new interface. This work reduces integration friction for downstream systems and positions the service for future enhancements in payment request handling.

May 2025 (2025-05) monthly summary for DEFRA/epr-payment-service: Delivered a new Accreditation Fee Management and Registration Fee Calculation API, introduced the AccreditationFee entity with schema and migrations, and implemented the necessary repository interfaces, DTOs, and unit tests. Refactored payment retrieval logic into a shared helper to improve reuse and maintainability. This work enables accurate fee calculation for accreditation, reprocessors, and exporters, strengthening compliance and governance while reducing duplication.