ACH Batch Inquiry

ACH (Automated Clearing House) is a network used for electronically moving money between bank accounts across the United States. It's run by an organization called Nacha (previously NACHA - National Automated Clearing House Association), and may also be referred to as the ACH network or ACH scheme.

 

The purpose of this inquiry is to view ACH Batches that have been created from Accounts Payable and/or Fisherman Accounting and to generate/re-generate the ACH Text file that gets sent to the bank. The records are grouped by the Checkbook the payments were issued against.

Software Version: 2023.08.31 and newer

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Generate ACH File

Generates (or re-generates) an ACH text file for each of the record(s) selected. The file(s) can be downloaded and or uploaded to the bank. To help ensure the ACH text files are not rejected by the bank, a warning message will appear if any of the ACH Batches selected contains a "Payment Date" that occurs in the past or on a weekend. This message can be ignored, and the text files will be generated, or the user can use Mass Update to edit the 'Effective Date' to a different date.

Changing the 'Effective Date' only impacts the ACH text file, the 'Payment Date' that was initially used for posting the payments remains the same.

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Inquiry Criteria

Opens Inquiry Criteria window where users can define the following criteria: 

  • Checkbook
  • Show Batches with Generated ACH Files
    • If "No" (default), ACH Batches that have generated an ACH File will be excluded.
    • If "Yes", ACH Batches that have generated an ACH File will be included.
  • Date From
  • Date To
Mass Update

Opens the mass update dialog, which allows to mass update the following properties: 

  • ACH Effective Date

    The ACH Effective Date is the data that will be submitted to the bank as the Payment Date in the ACH text file. This is the date that the funds "should" leave your account and be sent to the recipient. This defaults from the 'Payment Date' used when the payments were posted but can be changed in the event the 'Payment Date' occurred in the past, on a holiday, or on a weekend. 

FieldsDescription
CheckboxUsed to select one or more records for Mass Update or Delete.
ACH File Generated

A Yes/No field to identify whether an ACH text file has ever been created for the Batch. 

  • If "No", the ACH Batch has never had an ACH text file created and both the 'ACH File Generated Date' and 'ACH File Generated By' fields will be blank.
  • If "Yes", the ACH Batch has had one or more text files created and both the 'ACH File Generated Date' and 'ACH File Generated By' fields will be populated.

(lightbulb) This only identifies if the text file was created, it does not indicate whether the text file was uploaded to the bank. 

This will be "No" if there is no record for the Batch in ERPx_GLACHFile 

Database Field: EERPx_MFTransactionBatch.ACHGeneratedBy

ACH File Generated Date

Identifies the Created Date & Time of the record, formatted from the users 'Date Format' preference. This is a system assigned value and is never editable by a user.

This will only be populated if the text file was created, else it will be blank.

Database Field: ERPx_GLACHFile.CreatedDateTime, ERPx_MFTransactionBatch.TransactionBatchSK

ACH File Generated By

Identifies the name of the user that created the record. It is formatted to be the "logged-in" users [User First Name] + [User Last Name]. This is a system assigned value and is never editable by a user.

This will only be populated if the text file was created, else it will be blank.

Database Field: ERPx_GLACHFile.CreatedBy, ERPx_MFTransactionBatch.TransactionBatchSK

Batch

Displays the name of the batch. from the Batch ID field on the Process Payments record view formatted as [User First Name] + [User Last Name] + [Batch Number + 1] . This field is required and is never editable by a user.

Database Field: EERPx_MFTransactionBatch.BatchID

Batch Created Date

Identifies the Created Date & Time of the record, formatted from the users 'Date Format' preference. This is a system assigned value and is never editable by a user.

Database Field: ERPx_MFTransactionBatch.LastUpdated

Checkbook

Identifies the Checkbook assigned to the transaction. 

Database Field: ERPx_MFCheckbook.CheckbookID, ERPx_MFCheckbookTransaction.CheckbookSK, ERPx_MFTransactionBatch.TransactionBatchSk

Effective Date

The ACH Effective Date is the data that will be submitted to the bank as the Payment Date in the ACH text file. This is the date that the funds "should" leave your account and be sent to the recipient. This defaults from the 'Payment Date' used when the payments were posted but can be changed in the event the 'Payment Date' occurred in the past, on a holiday, or on a weekend. 

Database Field: EERPx_MFTransactionBatch.ACHEffectiveDate

Last Updated By

Identifies the name of the user that last updated the line item on the transaction. It is formatted to be the "logged-in" users [User First Name] + [User Last Name]. This is a system assigned value and is never editable by a user.

This will be the last user to post the ACH Batch or edit the 'Effective Date'.

Database Field: EERPx_MFTransactionBatch.LastUpdated

Payment Date

Identifies the date the payment will be applied, formatted from the users 'Date Format' preference. This is a date picker that defaults to the current date. It is required and if missing, will default to current date on Save. This date will automatically populate the 'Payment Date' field on the Process Payments Record View. This field is editable until payments are assigned, after this the field is disabled on Save.

Database Field: EERPx_MFTransactionBatch.BatchDate

Posted ACH Amount

A text box to show the amount of the ACH Batch. This will be the total of all the ACH payments that were included in the batch.

Database Field: EERPx_MFTransactionBatch.ACHTotal

Posted ACH Count

A text box to show the count of ACH payments in the ACH Batch. This will always be >= 1.

Database Field: EERPx_MFTransactionBatch.TransactionCount

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