Weatherly Borough won’t accept phoned-in credit card payments or automatic payments for utility bills and other payments starting Thursday.

The change is due to Payment Card Industry updates and regulations on industry-wide use of credit cards, Borough Manager Harold Pudliner told council on Monday.

“We’re not going to be able to take called credit cards over the phone or do automatic payments,” he said. “We’re looking into another process with our billing company.”

Pudliner said he would inform everyone about the process once it is set up, and gave council members the latest rules from PCI on credit card payments.

“We can no longer do what we have been doing over the phone and also automatic payments,” he said. “As of May 1, we will no longer be processing them.”

Notices will be posted on the borough website, social media and also placed in customers’ bills, Pudliner said.

Councilman Michael Bellizia expressed concern about how the change could potentially affect the borough’s cash flow, if people can’t pay over the phone or miss the note about the change in automatic payments, and the borough has to wait weeks for a check in the mail.

“I’m just afraid that we’re going to get a speed bump in cash flow,” he said.

Bellizia asked how much money the borough receives in these types of credit card payments, and borough secretary, Lori O’Donnell, said she didn’t have an actual total, but it was “a very large amount of phone credit card or debit card payments.”

The May bills will process through automatic payments, O’Donnell said, but there will be a note in the bills saying that they can no longer do that until further notice. The change will affect automatic payments for June bills, she said.

People will still be able to pay via credit card in person at the borough office, Pudliner said, and the borough is working with the billing agency to allow customers to pay with a credit card from a link on the borough website.

Customers, once the new system is set up, will be able to call up their bill and pay online, Pudiner explained.