ACH Transfer is a new User Menu item used that you can use to track your ACH Payments. Before you can run ACH, you must have some options in place. Let's go through those first.
To add ACH Transfer to your User Menu:
- Choose from the home page.
- Now, choose .
After you choose the position that needs access to this User Menu option, notice that ACH Transfer appears as available in your User menu items list.
- Select ACH Transfer and drag it to your Assigned User Menu items.
- And select Save.
To set up your yard options:
- From System Configuration, choose .
- Search for and select your yard.
- From the Yard Details page, choose the Details tab.
- From this page, be sure to fill in the Federal Tax ID Number.
- And .
- Now choose the Payment Options page.
- And choose the Other Payments tab.
- Select the Checking Account Setup button.
- From the Checking Account Setup page, be sure to fill in the Bank Name, Routing Number, and Account Number fields.
- Also, the ACH Transfer checkbox should be checked.
- And Save.
Note: The account that you set up here should be reserved to do payments as ACH transfers only.
To set up a Customer that is paid by ACH:
- Search for the Customer in Customer Master Files and go to the Buy page in their profile.
- Now, select the Check tab.
- Be sure to fill in the Account Number and Routing Number.
Now that we have all the settings in place, we can Run the ACH Transfer.
To Run the ACH Transfer:
- Go to the from the home page.
- And choose (be sure you have permissions set up for this or you may not see it). And choose from the action Items.
- First, Select the yard.
- Now, Select the Check Account that you have set up for ACH transfers.
- Select whether to filter based on date(s) or check number.
- Set the output related options depending on where you want the file to be saved and what to name the file.
Note: If the file is not going to be saved locally, you can set up the FTP information. After creating the file, you could send the file through FTP to the bank using the Output settings.
Note: You can check the Add Date Prefix to Filename checkbox to differentiate multiple files.
- Now choose Create Ach File .
A log of the ach file creation will be under the last transfer in the Last Transfer column.