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Select option 1 from iPayment main menu to see the existing ACH definitions or to create a new ACH definition. To create the ACH definition, press F6=Add:

• ACH Definition : enter name of ACH Definition.
• ACH Application : enter or select an ACH application which contains information of your company’s bank detail by press F4.
• Process for Payees: process some specified or all payees. There are 02 valid values: *ENROLLED or *ALL. If the selection is *ENROLLED, you must enroll the payees you want to processed when the merge runs (see Enroll the Payees into ACH Definition). If the selection is *ALL, then all payees will be processed when the merge runs. To specify a map field is Payee ID, select function DPAYEEID for Function field
• Database Connection : select a connection to external database. A connection will contains map fields which map to database fields.
• ACH Output File and Library: specify the output file name and library when ACH transactions are processed to output file. If the value is *GENERATE, the name of output file will be automatically generated, or you can input some name.
• Overwrite if exist : specify whether overwrite the output file if it exists
• Send Remittance Notification: send the remittance notifications to payees (via iMail or iFax) when the ACH transactions are processed.

From screen ‘Work with ACH Definitions’ (AC1000C1), select option 8=Work with Spool map fields to work with spool mapped fields, or from screen ‘Maintain an ACH Definition’ (AC1000R5), press F8=Work w/ Spool Map Fields. To add a new map field, press F6=Add

• Map field name : enter the map field name
• Function : specify a function of field, press F4 to select a value from list.

* Spool File Data Location: enter the spool text location. Press F2=Data Map to assist you fill in spool text location by referring to data location of spool file.

Beside Spool Map Fields, ACH definition can communicate with external database to create ACH transactions. By specifying a Database Connection for ACH Definition, ACH will know what database fields are used. In order to work with Database Connections, select menu item 4. Work with Database Connections from iPayment menu.

When finished adding map fields, you can define the conditions to select some records from database, select option 9=Conditions from screen Work with Database Connections.

In order to enroll the payees into ACH definition, select option 12=Work with Payees from screen Work with ACH Definitions (AC1000C1) or press F9=Work w/ Payees from screen Maintain an ACH Definition (AC1000R5) In this screen, you will see who are enrolled for the current ACH Definition.

To remove the payees from enroll list, select option 4=Unenroll

To create a new Payee, press F6=Create. You also can create new Payee from Work with Payees

To enroll more payees, press F8=Enroll Payees, you will see the list of defined payees who are not enrolled, select option 1 on the payees from list you want to enroll and press Enter

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This screen allows users to view, edit, copy, delete, or rename Automated Clearing House (ACH) payment applications. Each row represents a configured ACH Application that can be managed. Main Columns:

Available Actions:

Function Keys:

This screen allows users to configure or maintain the ACH file definitions for a given ACH Application. The structure follows the standard NACHA file format, including:

• File Header Record
• Batch Header Record
• Entry Detail (not shown here but linked via F18)

Section 1: ACH File Header

Section 2: ACH Batch Header

Section 3: Processing Control

Navigation & Function Keys

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From iPayment menu, select item 3. Work with ACH Files. 8=ACH Transactions View the transactions of ACH File. In this screen, you will see the detail of payment amount, check number and bank account of each Payee. 5=Display Select this option to see the detail of an ACH file, this information will be used to create ACH output file 15=Process Select this option to output ACH file to a transmission file. Only ACH Files with status RLS can be processed. When you press Enter, a pop up screen will be shown to ask the location of output file, leave these field blank if you want to use the settings in ACH Definition. 18=Output Files Use this option to see the transmission files which were created by this ACH File. Subset ACH Files

In order to select some ACH files which match some condition, you can use function Subset by press F17=Subset from screen Work with ACH Files.

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In order to work with Database Connections, select menu item 4. Work with Database Connections from iPayment menu. Press F6=Add to create a new database connection

• DB Connection : enter the name of database connection
• Host name/address : specify to use remote or local host. So far, remote host is not supported.
• File and Library : enter the name of database and its library

Press F10 to save.
Currently, only local database is supported, therefore all fields of Settings for remote host will be blank
After creating a new database connection, you will want to add the map fields into it.
Select option 8=Work with Map Fields Press F6=Add to add a new map field which maps to a database field. Press F4=Prompt to select a database field from list. You also need to assign a Function for the field. See Function of Work with Spool Map Fields

When finished adding map fields, you can define the conditions to select some records from database, select option 9=Conditions from screen Work with Database Connections.

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From main menu, select option 5. Work with Payees Press F6 to define new Payee information

• Payee ID : This ID is mandatory and must be unique.
• Payee Name : The name of Payee
• Address : The address of Payee
• City : The city of Payee
• State : Two abbreviation characters of Payee State
• Zip Code : The zip code of Payee
• Bank name : Enter the bank name of Payee’s account
• Bank Transit Number : Enter the routing transit number of Payee’s bank. Please consult your bank for this value
• Payee Account Number: Enter the account number of Payee
• Notification Email : Enter email address of Payee to receive the remittance notification
• Send Mail Notification : Define whether the notification will be send to email of Payee when ACH transactions are processed.
• Notification Fax : Enter the fax number of Payee
• Send Fax Notification : Define whether the notification will be fax to Payee when ACH transactions are processed.

From ACH Definitions list, select option 15=Merge with Spool file to merge the ACH Definition with spool file. After merge with spool file, you can see the output transactions by press F8=Work with Transactions from screen AC1000C1 (or select menu item 3. Work with ACH Files from iPayment menu). After merged, the status of transaction is RLS as default, unless you change it by specify Y at Hold processing in screen Maintain an ACH Application.

Note:

• Each spool file is only merged at once, and if you want to merge a spool file again, you must either delete the transaction of that spool file or process it (its status is PRC)
• In order to see what spool file a transaction is created from, select option 9=Mrg Spool Files. If Mrg Spool Files is empty, it means the transaction is created by merge ACH definition with an external database.

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To purge the transactions, use Opt 6 or command IPRGACHTRN

• From Date and To Date : select the creation date of ACH transactions
• Merged by User : purge the transactions which were created by a user
• Transaction Status : specify the status of transactions
• Remove ACH Output Files : specify to remove or retains the transmission files which were accompanied with the transactions.

When a DB connection was defined in ACH Definition, you can merge it by select option 19=Merge with Database, or you also can merge with some external database by selecting Opt 10 or API command IMRGACHDB.

From ACH Definitions list, select option 15=Merge with Spool file to merge the ACH Definition with spool file, or use Opt 11 or API command IMRGACHSPL. After merge with spool file, you can see the output transactions by press F8=Work with Transactions from screen AC1000C1 (or select menu item 3. Work with ACH Files from iPayment menu). After merged, the status of transaction is RLS as default, unless you change it by specify Y at Hold processing in screen Maintain an ACH Application.

Note:

• Each spool file is only merged at once, and if you want to merge a spool file again, you must either delete the transaction of that spool file or process it (its status is PRC)
• In order to see what spool file a transaction is created from, select option 9=Mrg Spool Files. If Mrg Spool Files is empty, it means the transaction is created by merge ACH definition with an external database.

You can assign the authority to some users or some groups to have permissions on some function by set up Selected Access Authorization. By default, users with *SECOFR permission can access this menu.

There are 04 permissions mainly: Read, Update, Write and Execute in respectively. The permission Write will override Read and Update, and the permission Update will override Read.

Firstly, you need to define a Selected Access Groups. From iPayment menu, select item 15. Work with Selected Access Groups

Press F6=Add to add a new group.

Select option 12=Work with Users to add or remove some user from group.

After defining a group, you will assign the permissions for the group by select menu item 20. Selected Access Authorization. There are 08 modules you can set the access authorization. Select one of the modules by option 1, then hit Enter In the screen Work with Selected Access User/Group, you can add a Group or a particular user. To add a Group, press F8=Add a Group. Enter the group name and assign the permissions on Group

To add a user profile, press F6=Add a User

Enter the user ID and assign the permissions on User

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