What GOV.UK Digital Service Platform offers
Your users can complete a form, send you information, pay for things and receive notifications with GOV.UK Digital Service Platform. It's low cost, easy to set up and has accessibility built in from the start.
You can use one, some, or all of the digital tools to support your service.
Build a form
GOV.UK Forms is a new platform that makes it easy to create accessible online forms for GOV.UK.
Take payments
Use GOV.UK Pay and be ready to take online payments in minutes. Take payments, issue refunds and run reports on all your payments.
Send your users email, text messages or letters
Send your users emails, text messages and letters - cheaply and easily.
Create interactive prototypes
The GOV.UK Prototype Kit provides a simple way to make interactive prototypes that look like pages on GOV.UK. These prototypes can be used to show ideas to people you work with, and to do user research.
Why use GOV.UK Digital Service Platform
GOV.UK Digital Service Platform is provided by the Government Digital Service (GDS).
No procurement
As a Government owned product, there is no need for lengthy times procuring us as a supplier
No code
All our tools offer solutions that can be implemented with no technical knowledge
Low cost
Our tools are competitively priced against other software on the market
Accessible
All our tools are fully accessible for both civil servants and end users
Trusted experience
Put your users at ease with government branded comms and familiar GOV.UK styles
Test before you launch
Quickly test your ideas for your service before you build it, saving time and money and reducing risk
Get started with our resources and guidance to help plan your own service transformation
Design principles
Principles to help guide teams creating government services
Service manual
Guidance on accessibility and assisted digital, agile delivery, design, measuring success, user research and more
Over 1500 organisations are using GOV.UK Digital Service Platform
Widely used across government, local authorities and police forces.
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Notify’s product strategy and upcoming features
Outlining our three goals to ensure we continue to offer a great product for the best value for money.
Making it easy to create and publish digital forms on GOV.UK
Read about our partnership with the Insolvency Service to build the first form using GOV.UK Forms and why we’re creating an online form builder for government.
The Single Data Environment: joined-up digital analytics
How GDS plans to unlock actionable insights through end-to-end visibility of whole user journeys, ultimately enabling better data-driven decisions.
Public services fit for the modern age
In the digital age, citizens expect public services to “just work”. Using GOV.UK Digital Service Platform helps your organisation build services that are easy to use, efficient and save the public money.
Making it easier to design and build public services
Many of GDS’s tools need little or no technical expertise to implement successfully in your organisation. We want all of the public sector to be able to create effective, modern services.
Advanced implementation for development teams
GDS tools are built to be interoperable and can communicate with existing systems. There is plenty of support and high quality documentation from our technical teams.
