Communities and Justice

PACS Portal - Frequently asked questions

ABOUT THE PORTAL - What is the Payment And Contracts System (PACS) Portal?

The PACS Portal is the platform where DCJ  provides you with information about your contracts and payments, and enables you to undertake annual accountability.

The portal contains information about all active and previous contracts, and draft contract details if you are in the process of negotiating a new contract.

The PACS Portal also provides for collaboration between service providers and DCJ contract managers.

ABOUT THE PORTAL - What can I do in the PACS Portal?

The portal allows you to easily navigate through its menus and tiles to find information about your contracts and payments and the details we hold about your organisation. It’s also a place to locate resources, forms and help.

Some of the features of the portal are:

  • Dashboards and reports: This section contains a snapshot of your organisation. It includes downloadable summaries of funding, contracts, actions, payments, and accountability status.
  • Communications: Here you can view action items and corporate messages from DCJ. And you can respond to and update items and messages.
  • Contracts: This section contains information on your active, inactive, draft, expired and terminated contracts.  It also links to specific details about individual contracts, including contacts, financials, documents and accountability.
  • Payments: Here you’ll find details of your  scheduled future payments, payment history and funding allocation. You’ll also be able to  download RCTIs or advices of deposit.
  • Accountability: This is where you can view previous and complete current corporate and contract accountability forms, including uploading the required attachments. You can communicate with your DCJ contract manager about annual accountability here.
  • Documents: The documents tab gives you access to a repository of documents in PACS including correspondence, contract documents and notifications, and documents you’ve uploaded. You can also upload from this space.
  • My provider: This is where provider contact, legal, financial and accreditation information is displayed and can be amended, either directly by you, or by submitting an online form if evidence is required.

ACCESS - How do I get access to the PACS Portal?

This is the link to access the PACS Portal. However, you can only access the portal as a registered user.

To become a user, your service’s portal administrator can complete a Provider update requestNew user form, on your behalf in the portal. It’s located on the My provider screen. Simply complete the form and submit it online.

If you do not have a portal administrator in your organisation or are a new service provider, contact your contract manager or PACS Admin team to assist you to gain access to the portal.

For security purposes, users require multi factor authentication, so our PACS Admin team will process your new user request and generate an Okta login account for you.

You will receive an email with login credentials and instructions for setting up your account. These credentials can then be used to login to the PACS Portal.

ACCESS - How do I request a new user?

You can request a new user through your organisation’s portal administrator who will complete the new user application form on your behalf:

  1. Select the My provider tile in the portal, then choose the Provider update requests tab
  2. Click on the +New request button
  3. Complete the application form, clicking Save and next at the end of the form
  4. Review the new user request details
  5. Click the Submit button if the details are correct, or the Previous button if you need to make a change
  6. Once you’ve submitted the form it will go to PACS Admin team for verification and will be processed by the DCJ IT team
  7. You’ll receive an email with personal login details and instructions on how to complete the Okta authentication process

If no one in your organisation has access to the portal, contact the PACS Admin team for assistance.

ACCESS -  Can we have more than one portal administrator?

Yes, you can have as many administrators for your organisation as you decide.

A PACS Portal administrator can request that other users become administrators. Contact the PACS Admin team to assist you.

ACCESS - What happens if the portal administrator leaves or goes on holiday?

You can have multiple administrators for the PACS Portal at any time.

If you need to remove or change an administrator, please contact the PACS Admin team.

ACCESS - Can I use a generic email address for staff to access the portal?

Users in the PACS Portal need to have a unique and personalised email address and multi factor authentication.

While in the past it has been the practice for some organisations to use a generic email address for staff and board members to access information, it’s now more important that we minimise the risk of cyber incidents by every possible means. One way of doing this is to establish each portal user with a unique identifier and multi factor authentication.

And, where an individual user is accessing the portal on behalf of different organisations, say as a staff member of one and a board member of another, that user must have separate and unique emails for each organisation they represent.

ACCESS - How do I reset my password?

If you need to reset your password follow these steps

  1. Click on this link, it takes you to the sign in page for the portal
  2. Click on Login to the PACS Portal
  3. Choose Need help signing in? (under the Next button)
  4. Choose either Forgot password or Unlock account
  5. Enter the email address you use to login
  6. Choose Reset via Email.

You’ll receive an email to your nominated address with a link to reset your password. The link is valid for 1 day.

If you need further assistance, contact the PACS Admin team.  

CONTACTS AND ROLES - What is the difference between a portal administrator and a portal user?

The portal administrator is the person nominated to act on behalf of your organisation who has overall responsibility for the management of the portal, its users and your organisation’s information. The information below outlines the portal privileges for each user type.

Portal administrators:

  • have overall responsibility to ensure information on the portal is complete and accurate
  • are the only role that’s able to request new user
  • can create and edit contacts and addresses
  • can complete annual accountability
  • can submit provider detail update requests
  • are able to view all information in the portal.

Portal users:

  • can create and edit contacts and addresses
  • can complete annual accountability
  • can submit provider detail update requests (except new user request)
  • are able to view all information in the portal.

CONTACTS AND ROLES – what is the difference between a contact and a portal user?

A contact is someone associated with your organisation and/ or your contract/s. They are usually allocated a contact type (see question below). A contact does not need to have access to the portal.

A portal user is able to access your organisation’s information through the portal. They need to be a contact of the organisation before they can become a portal user.

CONTACTS AND ROLES - What are the contact types in the portal?

The PACS Portal contains a number of contact types and it’s in your interest to ensure these are kept up to date.

Every provider funded by DCJ, at the very least needs to have the following contacts:

  • Admin
  • Finance
  • Authorised signatory (two where required)
  • Primary contact

The other contact types which your organisation may have are:

  • Board contact
  • Dispute resolution nominated representative
  • Dispute resolution senior representative
  • Escalation
  • Secondary contact
  • Nominated representative
  • Senior representative
  • Other.

CONTACTS AND ROLES - How do I update the nominated contact/s?

Your portal administrator and portal users are easily able to update nominated contacts in the portal.

Simply select the My provider tile and navigate to Contacts.

Wherever you see the pen icon you are able to access a form allowing you to edit details for an existing contact or address.

Where you see the +Contact or +Address button you are able to add new contacts or addresses.

Where you see the +User button, you are able to complete a form which is submitted to DCJ to progress the Okta two factor authentication process for new portal users. This is an important security measure to protect your organisation’s information.

Note that all of these changes are made at the service provider or organisational level.

At the contract level, you can also edit information. If you wish to add new contacts or addresses at the contract level, these first need to be input at the service provider level.

INFORMATION - Who else will be able to see my service’s information?

Your service’s information can be viewed by anyone from your organisation who is a portal user. This includes users with read only access.

It’s important that your PACS Portal administrator considers this when requesting user access.

Other service providers are not able to see your organisation’s information.

DCJ staff with PACS system access may view your information.

INFORMATION - Will portal users only see information about the contracts they are responsible for?

Anyone with access to the portal will be able to see all the information in the PACS Portal for the organisation they belong to.

However, not everyone with access to the portal can undertake actions there. The information below outlines portal privileges.

Portal administrator:

  • has overall responsibility to ensure information on the portal is complete and accurate
  • is the only role that’s able to submit a request for a new user
  • can create and edit contacts and addresses
  • can complete and submit annual accountability
  • can submit provider detail update requests
  • is able to view all information in the portal

Portal users:

  • can create and edit contacts and addresses
  • can complete annual accountability
  • can submit provider detail update requests (except new user request)
  • are able to view all information in the portal.

Portal read only users:

  • are able to view all information in the portal
  • are not able to change or edit any information in the portal.

INFORMATION - Will I still be able to access the Contracting Portal for my historical information and other information?

You can access all your historical information previously held in the Contracting Portal in the PACS Portal.

If you have any concerns with your data in the portal please speak to your contract manager or email PACS Admin.

PAYMENTS - Where can I get my RCTI ?

You can find your RCTI or advice of deposit as follows:

  1. Navigate to the Payments tile in the PACS Portal
  2. Select the fourth tab along, labelled – RCTI – advice of deposit
  3. Choose your filter from the dropdown menu (Last 7 days, Last month, Last 3 months, Current financial year or Last financial year)
  4. When the RCTI/s load, select the hyperlink which will open a Receipt details window
  5. Click on the hyperlink in the Receipt table to open the View details window
  6. Click on the hyperlink and the PDF version of the RCTI will download
  7. You can then print the RCTI or save the PDF version to your computer.

If you wish to retrieve historical RCTIs, these are found under the Documents tab.

SUPPORT - Is training required to use the PACS Portal?

The portal is designed as a user friendly and easy to navigate site.

Short provider sessions were held when the portal went live, to familiarise providers with the new platform.

It’s envisaged that in future we’ll hold sessions for providers around specific topics, for example, each year when annual accountability is released.

You can access the Help tile of the portal for guides and navigation assistance or you can view here the Service provider portal learner guide; the How to guide; and the A-Z of the PACS Portal. Your contract manager and the PACS Admin team are also always on hand to assist.

SUPPORT - What support is available to me and my service?

The PACS Portal has a Help menu with topics covering all the modules in the portal, including navigation.  You can also view here the Service provider portal learner guide; the How to guide; and the A-Z of the PACS Portal.

The portal has been designed to be user friendly and easy to navigate. However if you require assistance you can always contact your contract manager.

And the PACS Admin team can provide additional support. You can contact the team by email  or by telephone on 9716 2188 during business hours.

SUBCONTRACTING - Can I use the portal to apply to add a new subcontractor?

The subcontracting application form is built in the portal, but is not currently in use.

You’re welcome to take a look at the subcontracting application form, which mirrors the forms currently on the DCJ website. To view the form in the portal navigate to My provider / Provider update requests and choose Subcontracting from the left menu.

You will be notified once the subcontracting application is fully functional in the portal. In the meantime if you need to make a subcontracting application please continue to use either the Application for consent to subcontract to another organisation or Application for consent to subcontract to individuals form on the website.

UPLOADING DOCUMENTS - Can I upload documents into the PACS Portal?

You can easily upload documents in the PACS Portal.

If your document is at the service provider or organisation level:

  • navigate to the Documents tile and select Upload
  • choose the +Upload document button
  • when the Add new document window appears, fill in the Document type, Description (if any) and select Choose file (from your computer)
  • (Hint) the Document name will automatically populate with the name of the file you selected. You can override that at this point and rename the document
  • click Submit and the document will appear under the Upload tab.


Last updated:

21 Oct 2024