Apparatus and methods provide an accumulator that processes electronic
payments from an employer to a recipient via a network. The payments
processed may be, for example, child support payments collected from an
employee by the employer. The employer may submit one transaction made up
of payments collected from multiple employees bound for multiple
recipients and the accumulator may receive, translate, batch, and deliver
the payments to the multiple recipients. The accumulator, employers, and
recipients may communicate via a network such as the Internet.