A system for receiving a payment for a financial obligation of a payer via a staged transaction, and for identifying an originator of the staged transaction. A collection system may be configured to, per the originator, associate the obligation with an identifier which may be unique to the obligation and indicative of the originator, to associate the transaction with the identifier, and to provide the identifier to the payer. A provider system may be configured to receive a first record related to the transaction from the collection system, to receive a second record related to the transaction which indicates a payment has been received, and to send a third record related to the transaction to the collection system which indicates a payment has been received. A provider subsystem may be configured to receive the identifier from the payer, and send the second record to the provider system.