Configuration Changes

The following configuration must be made when using Automated Payments functionality. If a field mentioned is not visible, it must be made so using Configure Pages.

• System Options (SOPT): Include Prenote/EFT on Billing Address on the Revenue section must be set to Yes. of SOPT table which when set to Yes allows Prenote/EFT information to populate on Billing Address of Vendor/Customer (VCUST). This setting also controls the number of records processed by the Prenote ACH transaction chain.

Note: The above setup is applied provided the "Allow Prenote/EFT on Vendor Address" (ALW_EFT_ADDR) parameter in the Application Parameters (APPCTRL) table is set to True.

• Vendor/Customer (VCUST), Vendor Customer Creation (VCC), and Vendor Customer Modification VCM: Generate ACH Debit must be set to Yes so that EFT information can be entered for a billing address. Additionally, an Account Type field exists with values of General Ledger and Loan for internal accounting purposes only. Thus, this setup point is optional.

• Customer Account Options (CACT): Generate ACH Debit and EFT Status fields have been added to reflect what is on Vendor Customer. Only the first can be changed to limit automatic payments for a subset of billing profiles. The same field cannot be set to Yes for a customer account if the Vendor Customer record is No.

• Disbursement Format (DISF): Debit Addenda Position 1, 2 and 3 fields added with values Customer Name, Transaction ID, Address ID, Billing Profile, Department Name, and Revenue Source to build the Debit Addenda Record (Record Type 7) of the ACH Debit XML file generated by Generate ACH Debit process.