To make a payment to a payee on behalf of a payor, the payment service
provider receives, via a network, a first payment request to make a first
payment to a payee on behalf of a first payor and a second payment
request to make a second payment to the payee on behalf of a second
payor. The first request has first identity information identifying the
payee and the second request has second identity information identifying
the payee. The payment service provider accesses first data associated
with the first payor to identify a first unique payee identifier
associated with the payee based on the first payee identity information
and second data associated with the second payor to identify a different
second unique payee identifier associated with the payee based on the
second payee identity information. The payment service provider retrieves
first electronic payment information for the payee based on the
identified first unique payee identifier and different second electronic
payment information for the payee based on the identified second unique
payee identifier. The payment service provider can then direct a first
electronic payment to the payee on behalf of the first payor based upon
the retrieved first electronic payment information and a second
electronic payment to the payee on behalf of the second payor based upon
the retrieved second electronic payment information.