Facing a citation in Fort Worth has just gotten more convenient, as the Municipal Court rolls out its new payment option, VanillaDirect Pay, enabling residents to settle up using cold, hard cash at a slew of local retail locations, bypassing the need for plastic. The court has partnered with businesses like CVS, Walgreens, Family Dollar, and 7-Eleven to allow payments sans credit or debit cards, instead just a barcode will do, as per the City of Fort Worth.
It's about accessibility and the reality of people's lives; not everyone has a credit card, or the ability to step away from their daily grind to visit a courthouse during working hours, and VanillaDirect Pay acknowledges this by extending payment options into the community, where people shop, work and live, providing a real-time way to make good on citations with extended hours that far surpass those annoyingly limited courthouse timings.
Users of the service receive a digital or printed barcode from the court’s payment portal, which they can then bring to participating retail stores across the community. At these locations, a cashier scans the barcode and confirms the amount with a minor $1.50 convenience fee added to the total, the customer pays the total, and then gets a printed receipt—their proof of payment, and peace of mind in paper form.
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