Albany ePAY online for

Introducing the facility to make Bacs payments directly from within your accounting applicationthe easy and efficient way!

Having completed the registration process and downloaded Albany ePAY online , you will now be asked to login.

You will then see the following functionality.

This initial table is pulling data held within FinancialForce and clearly lists the files ready for payment.

To continue select a file and click ‘Submit’.

Having selected the file you wish to process, click ‘Submit Payments’ to instigate the processing of the file.

This screen will then appear asking you to confirm a Payment Date and that the file is correct. Once confirmed, select ‘Next’.

Any warnings or errors will be displayed at a later stage.The validation process is very quick and increases depending on number of transactions within the file.

The file will then be validated, including bank account numbers and sort codes.

This screen confirms that the validation of the file is now complete.

It is important to check all details are accurate and click ‘Submit’ to continue.

In this instance the file has been successfully validated but with warnings. At this point you can view the details of the warnings, and you are presented with a summary file showing the Payment Method, Payment Date, No. of Transactions and Total Value.

If a file fails validation, this screen will appear.

It will then not be possible to progress further with this submission and errors will need to be corrected in order to resubmit.

Your payment file can be submitted so long as it passes validation, even if there are warnings. In this instance, the file successfully submitted to Bacs. When you want to move away from this screen, select ‘Finish’.

The file has been submitted to Bacs.