Contents of the AP Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) Form

Use fields and options on the form to specify the effective date and processing parameters for an electronic funds transfer in Accounts Payable.

Contents

Field	Description
Effective Entry Date	Enter the date when these entries are valid for bank use.
AP Payment Runs this Period Grid	Click the drop-down arrow on a grid header to complete any of the following actions: To print grid data, click Print. On the Print Preview form, click File > Print to send the grid data to your default printer. To export grid data to an Excel spreadsheet, click Export to Excel. When Microsoft Excel opens, use its features to modify, print, or email the grid data, or to save the spreadsheet file locally. To turn on grouping for a grid, click Enable Grouping. When a field displays with the instruction: "Drag a column header here to group by that column," drag and drop column headers into the field, in the sequence that you want them to display. Not all options are available on all grids.
Process	Click this grid toolbar option to generate the .txt file in ACH format.
Report	Click this grid toolbar option to generate the AP Electronic Funds Transfer report for your files. This report displays data about the EFT transactions that you sent to the bank.
Run Type	This grid column displays AP.
Seq	This grid column displays the posting sequence for the AP payment processing run.
Name	This grid column displays the username of the user who created the posting run.
Posted	This grid column displays the date and time when the payment run was posted to the server.
Payment Date	This grid column displays the payment date specified on the General tab of the AP Payment Processing form.
Post Comment	This grid column displays a summary of the posting run results.
Status	This grid column displays the processing status of the payment run. The options are: Processed — The payment run's .txt file has been generated for the bank. Unprocessed — The payment run's .txt file has not been generated.
Exclude runs already processed	Select this option before you click the Process option to prevent Vision from re-generating a payment run's .txt file. Having more than one .txt file for the same payment run can cause duplicate payment to the vendors in that run.
Exclude carriage return at end of each record	Select this option to delete the carriage return after each record. This ensures that the ACH file has a continuous line of characters.
Add carriage return at end of file	Select this option to add a carriage return after each record. This ensures that the ACH file has a return at the end of each record.