Generating the Bank File

The final step is to generate the bank file.

To generate the bank file from a FinancialForce Accounting payment proposal, for example:

1. Click the Payments tab. You may need to access this from the All Tabs page.
2. Select a matched payment proposal from a list view.
3. Click Generate Bank File.
4. On the Generate Bank File page, select an appropriate bank payment format.
5. Enter the arrival date for the payment.
6. Click Generate Bank File again. The process runs in batch. You receive an email that confirms the success or failure of this operation.

When you generate the bank file, if any of the beneficiary bank details are missing check that you have correctly defined the root source object in the Bank Format Definition Record. For more information, see Creating a Bank Format Mapping Record Type.

By default the bank files are saved to the Bank Format Mapping and Files tab. As of Summer 2019, to keep this default you must use the custom setting Store Bank Files in Documents. For more information, see "Custom Settings" in the "Administrator Setup" topic.

For more information regarding the Document Library, see "Document Library Overview" in the Salesforce. The email message that you receive has a link to the document containing the bank file.

Note:

If Date to Arrive and Date of Creation are used in the mappings, they are set as follows in the generated output:
Date to Arrive = date entered on Generate Bank File page
Date of Creation = current date