Customers who go online to conduct certain motor vehicle transactions will save nearly $360,000 in fees over the next year with a new state agreement announced today by Motor Vehicle Commission Chairman and Chief Administrator Raymond P. Martinez and State Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff. Under the agreement, contracted vendor NICUSA Inc., will now process credit card payments for online transactions such as vehicle registration renewals for 25 percent less per transaction than the state’s previous vendor.
“It’s my hope that even this small reduction puts a bit more money in our customers’ pockets and encourages them to do more online,” said Martinez. “This is not an MVC fee but it is important for us to ensure that the vendor’s processing fee is minimal.”
Beginning today, customers conducting online transactions will see reduced credit card processing fees on the following transactions:
Registration Renewals – $1.50 (down from $2.00)
Personalize/Specialty Plate transactions – $1.50 (down from $2.00)
Driver Abstract requests – $.75 (down from $1.00)
“Treasury’s job in managing State contracts is to make sure we make the best possible use of taxpayer dollars,” said State Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff. “Whenever we can make State services more efficient and responsive to the public we serve, we will do so.”
“Over the last year, we had over 1.3 million people renew their registrations online. We offer this and similar services for the convenience of our customers so that they can skip the trip to an agency and do their business easily from any computer,” said Martinez. “There is absolutely no need to visit an agency for certain MVC business.”
The MVC offers a range of other online services for customers including driver test scheduling, restoration and surcharge payments, vehicle inspection scheduling, change of address and organ donor registration. Customers are encouraged to take full advantage of all of the MVC’s online services, including for common transactions like registration renewals, which can be completed in a matter of minutes.
For more information, visit www.njmvc.gov. TLS.
“…Customers who go online to conduct certain motor vehicle transactions will save nearly $360,000 in fees over the next year…”
Kindly tell me how, as per the first sentence, I can save $360,000 on next years driver’s license and car registration renewal. I would love to save that much.
I would love to save $360,000
“We offer this and similar services for the convenience of our customers so that they can skip the trip to an agency and do their business easily from any computer,” ”
Cut it out, the MVC says more by not having to pay an overpaid lazy union employee who takes their time and process a few customers an hour. The money saved in payroll and building maintenance should cover the “service fee”, at a minimum, and in truth should make the entire service cost less. Encourage people to use the online services, and you’ll be able to close the some MVC branches for another day each week.
I renewed two vehicle registrations last week in less than 10 minutes at Route 70 MVC in Lakewood.
I wish licenses could be renewed online also, like in New York State.
The fact that there are any online charges is a scam because it cost’s less to process an online renewal than a mail in one, any company will tell you that. I never do the online renewal i refuse to get ripped off yet again by our caring Government