ACH Software Overview
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ACH (Automated Clearing House) is a highly reliable and efficient nationwide batch-oriented electronic funds transfer system governed by the NACHA OPERATING RULES which provide for the interbank clearing of electronic payments for participating depository financial institutions. The Federal Reserve and Electronic Payments Network act as ACH Operators, central clearing facilities through which financial institutions transmit or receive ACH entries.
With the use of ACH iPayment, inFORM Decision’s ACH payment processing suite, you can save time and money by processing electronic transfers, instead of checks. Your vendors are notified either by fax (iFAX) or by email (iMAIL) that they have received or will be receiving payment based upon you AP schedule.
IPAYMENT ACH iPayment Solution 6.95 07.15.20 Select one of the following: 1. Work with ACH Definitions CALL AC1000R 2. Work with ACH Applications CALL AC2000R 3. Work with ACH Files CALL AC4000R 4. Work with Database Connections CALL AC6000R 5. Work with Payees CALL AC1200R 6. Purge ACH Transactions CALL AC8000R 10. Merge ACH Definition with External Database IMRGACHDB 11. Merge ACH Definition with Spool File IMRGACHSPL 15. Work with Selected Access Groups CALL AC9100R 20. Selected Access Authorization CALL AC9000R Selection or command ===> F3=Exit F4=Prompt F9=Retrieve F12=Cancel F13=Information Assistant F16=System main menu
* Option 1 on the iACH menu allows you to map fields contained in your spooled files to:
- Map fields contained in your spool files to the ACH iPayment fields.
- Enroll the payees that will be processed.
* Option 2 on the iACH menu enables you to enter in all of your company’s bank details, data transmission protocol configuration and other credentials necessary to send a NACHA compliant file to your financial institution for electronic payment.
* Option 3 on ACH iPayment menu allows you to view:
- The detail of ACH transactions.
- The spool file (if applicable) which the transactions were merged with.
- Transactions can be changed from a processed (PRC) or Hold (HLD) statuses to Release (RLS) status, making them eligible for electronic file transmission. Output the ACH transactions to a physical file for electronic file transmission.
* Option 4 on ACH iPayment menu allows you to map fields from an external database to the ACH iPayment fields; it will allow you to connect directly ACH iPayment Software to your AP system and creating ACH transactions from your AP database.
* Option 5 on ACH iPayment menu allows you to create a Payee definition to contain all information of your payees; these definitions will be enrolled into your ACH application via option 1.
* Option 6 on ACH iPayment menu allows you to purge the transactions in your ACH software
* Option 10 on ACH iPayment menu allows you to merge an ACH with an external database
* Option 11 on ACH iPayment menu allows you to merge an ACH with a spool file.
* Option 15 on ACH iPayment menu allows you to define a Selected Access Group.
* Option 20 on ACH iPayment menu allows you to assign the Access Authority to a Group or a AS/400 user profile.