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| Once you've set up electronic payments, you can pay your suppliers and employees directly into their bank accounts in two easy steps: - Select the Electronic Payment option when you record a payment, eg. in the Spend Money window, Pay Bills window or when processing employee pays.
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Electronic payment files contain the payment information for your bank to process, including your bank details, your payees’ bank details and the amounts you want to pay. (In Australia, electronic payment files are prepared using the Australian Bankers’ Association (ABA) file format.) When you've prepared an electronic payment file, you can send it to your bank for processing (for example, by using online banking software provided by your bank). Contact your bank for more information on how to send electronic payment files for processing. | UI Expand |
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| Preparing an electronic payment fileOnce you've recorded a payment and selected the Electronic Payment option (as shown above), the payment will be ready for processing. Let's step you through it: - Go to the Banking command centre and click Prepare Electronic Payments. The Prepare Electronic Payments window appears listing all electronic payments waiting to be processed.
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- (Not AccountRight Basics) If you want to group the electronic payment by payment type—for example, to pay bills only—select a type in the Select Payment by field.
- (Australia only) In the Your Bank Statement Text field, enter the text you want to appear on your bank statement.
In the Bank Processing Date field, enter the date you want the payment to be processed. | UI Text Box |
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| Future dates You can future date the Bank Processing Date when preparing your electronic payment file, providing it's within the current financial year. The Bank Processing Date is the date you want the bank to process the electronic payment, but not all banks adhere to future dating bank files. Check with your bank for clarification. |
- (Optional) Enter a Journal Memo to describe this transaction. By default this will display Electronic Payment for each new electronic payment.
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- (New Zealand only) Click Process. A window appears, where you can change the transmission date (which can be any date between the computer date and the processing date), and enter details that you want to show on your statement.
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| Click New folder on the Save As window to create a new folder to save your bank files. This is a great way to keep your bank files organised and easier to find. |
Choose where you want to save the bank file. For Australia, the file extension must be ABA. | UI Text Box |
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| If you're preparing multiple electronic payment files, make sure you don't overwrite an existing file when saving. |
Click Save. The payment information is saved in a file that you can upload to your bank for processing. If you want to prepare another electronic payment file, repeat from step 2. Click Cancel to close the Prepare Electronic Payments window.
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| title | Uploading bank files to your bank |
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| The bank file can be uploaded to your bank using your bank's online banking portal. Refer to the help in your online banking for instructions on how to do this, or check with your bank. You can also search Google for your bank's instructions, e.g. search for "upload bank file ANZ" or "upload aba file westpac", etc. | UI Text Box |
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| Can't find your bank file? If you've searched but come up empty, recreate the bank file as described in 'To recreate a bank file' below. |
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Deleting an electronic payment and other tasksNeed to find or delete an electronic payment transaction? Maybe you need to recreate a bank file? Here's how: | UI Expand |
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| To find electronic payment transactionsThere are two ways to find an electronic payment. This can be done using the Transaction Journal or the Electronic Payments Register report. | Transaction Journal | - Go to Banking > Transaction Journal > Disbursements tab.
- Look for the ID No. starting with EP on the date you prepared the electronic payment.
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| | Report | - Go to the Reports menu (at the top of the AccountRight window) and choose Index to Reports. The Index to Reports window appears.
- Select the Banking tab and choose the Electronic Payments Register report.
- Enter or select the date range or period for which you want to view the report.
- Click Display Report. The Report window appears.
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| If you want to pay straight into your suppliers' and employees' bank accounts, there are two ways you can do it: - pay directly from AccountRight (2019.3 BETA customers only)
- create a bank file from AccountRight then upload it to your bank for processing
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| The new direct payments service is currently in BETA (it's not quite ready yet), so it's only available to selected BETA customers. |
Here's a comparison: | Direct payments (BETA) | Using a bank file
| - Currently only available to BETA customers
- Australia only
- available in online company files only
- streamlined payment process, straight from AccountRight
- less data entry = fewer mistakes!
- no need to use internet banking
- secure payments
- full payment audit trail
- fees apply (see FAQs below)
| - Australia or New Zealand
- available in both online and desktop company files
- requires internet banking
- included with an AccountRight subscription
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| | Looking for your bank file? If you've searched but come up empty, recreate the bank file as described in 'To recreate a bank file' below. |
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| To delete a grouped electronic paymentIf an electronic payment was recorded incorrectly, it can be deleted. Note that this only deletes the electronic payment transaction in AccountRight and has no effect on the electronic bank file. Once it's deleted, the individual transactions that were within the grouped electronic payment will be listed again on the Prepare Electronic Payments window. To delete a grouped electronic payment: - Go to Banking > Transaction Journal > Disbursements tab.
- Specify the date range to display the electronic payment (these have 'EP' in the transaction ID).
- Open the electronic payment to be deleted.
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| Can't see the delete option? Open the preferences (Setup > Preferences > Security tab) and deselect the preference Transactions CAN'T be Changed; They Must be Reversed. |
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| title | To change a transaction within a grouped electronic payment |
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| To change a transaction within a grouped electronic paymentIf you've prepared an electronic payment file (but haven't uploaded it to your bank) then realise one of the payments is wrong, you'll need to: - Delete the electronic payment.
- Go to Banking > Transaction Journal > Disbursements tab.
- Specify the date range to display the electronic payment (these have 'EP' in the transaction ID).
- Open the electronic payment to be deleted.
Go to the Edit menu and choose Delete Electronic Payment Transaction.
- Change the transaction which needs fixing.
- Prepare the electronic payment again.
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| title | To recreate a bank file |
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| To recreate a bank fileTo recreate a bank file you'll need to reprocess the electronic payment. Before you can do this you'll need to either: - delete the original electronic payment transaction (if it hasn't been reconciled), or
- reverse the original electronic payment transaction (if it has been reconciled)
You'll need to make sure your security preference allows you to delete or reverse (Setup menu > Preferences > Security tab > Transactions CAN'T be Changed; They Must be Reversed). To recreate the bank file: - Open the original electronic payment transaction.
- Go to Banking > Transaction Journal > Disbursements tab.
- Look for the ID No. starting with EP on the date you prepared the electronic payment.
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| If you need to re-use a transaction in the new bank file, note down its transaction number to help you find it later. You can also print the Journal Security Audit report (Reports > Accounts > Security and Audit > Journal Security Audit) to show transactions you've deleted or reversed. |
- Go to the Edit menu and choose Delete (or Reverse) Electronic Payment Transaction.
- Process the electronic payment (and create the bank file) again as described above.
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| title | To remove transactions from the Prepare Electronic Payments window without recording them |
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| To remove transactions from the Prepare Electronic Payments window without recording themA transaction will be listed in the Prepare Electronic Payments window when it's recorded as an electronic payment, like this Spend Money example:  Image Removed
To remove a transaction from the Prepare Electronic Payments window without selecting it to be included in a bank file, you'll need to: - Reverse or delete the transaction.
- Record it again without selecting the Electronic Payment option. If it's a payroll transaction, you'll need to change the employee's payment details if they're no longer being paid electronically.
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| title | To report on electronic payments |
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| To report on electronic paymentsYou can run reports on your electronic payments to see unprocessed electronic payments or the electronic payments register. Go to the Reports menu (at the top of the AccountRight window) and choose Index to Reports. The Index to Reports window appears.Click the Banking tab. A list of report headings appears.Click the report you want to display.Enter any report filters such as date.Click Display Report.
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| To handle negative transactions in the Prepare Electronic Payments windowYou can select a negative transaction, either by itself or with other transactions, in the Prepare Electronic Payments window. If the total of selected transactions is zero or a negative value, a bank file won't be created. However, the Electronic Payments (clearing) account balance will be adjusted accordingly. This is a similar approach to the way you'd handle a rejected electronic payment.already been using bank files for electronic payments, it's easy to switch to direct payments. |
Setting up electronic paymentsBefore you can make electronic payments, you'll need to set up a few things. See these topics for all the details: Setting up AccountRight for direct electronic payments Set up electronic payments using bank files Making paymentsThere are a few ways to identify that a payment you're making is to be paid electronically: - When you record a Spend Money or Pay Bills transaction, select the Electronic Payment option.
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For all the details on processing your electronic payments, see these topics: Making electronic payments directly Making electronic payments with a bank file | HTML |
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| title | What are the fees for using direct payments? |
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| What are the fees for using direct payments?The fees per use are: Debit card (Mastercard only) - 0.1% of the total payment value
- Example: if paying $10,000, the fee is $10
Credit card (Visa or Mastercard) - 1.5% of the total payment value
- Example: if paying $10,000, the fee is $150
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