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Realtime Bank - User Guide

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Setup

Setup Bank Connetors

The following connectors are supported out-of-the-box:

  1. Swedbank Gateway
  2. SEB Baltic Gateway
  3. LHV Connect
  4. Coop Pank Gateway
  5. Luminor Web Service

Instructions to join with the service can be found here.

Each has its own setup card. Please open the setup of your bank connector and enter the following information:

Field | Description | – | – Service URL | Enter the address of bank service.
Swedbank - https://psd2.api.swedbank.com/partner/v1/sgw/
SEB - https://api.bgw.baltics.sebgroup.com/
LHV - https://connect.lhv.eu/
Coop Pank - https://cpgw.cooppank.ee/
Authorization/Device Certificate Filename | Import certificate file (pfx/p12 format). Certifcate will be given by bank. Authorization/Device Certificate Password | Enter certificate password. Encryption Certificate (for Swedbank) | Certificate can be downloaded here: http://dev.swedbankgateway.net/info#certificates Agreement Id/Customer Id | Details from the bank agreement.

Setup Bank Account

Open Bank Account card and choose the connector in the Bank Connector field. If no connector is specified, the transaction information for this bank account will not be pulled into Business Central.

On the Bank Account card, there is a button Set Starting Date for Bank Connector, where you have to set the date of switching to Realtime Bank and the opening balance in the bank on that day.

Setup Realtime Bank

Open Realtime Bank Setup and assign the number series for the Posted Transaction Nos. field. If there are bank accounts that you do not want to be reflected in Business Central, it is possible to download only bank messages that relate to the accounts saved in Business Central. To do this, enable the feature “Filter Incoming Messages”.

In the settings related to the processing of bank messages, it is possible to display service fees on separate lines in the Payment Reconciliation Journal. To do this, enable “Charges on Separate Line”. If you enable “Name in Posting Description”, the name of the related party will also be added to the text of the transaction taken from the bank.

In the Application Logic field, select “Payment Reconciliation Journal”. Other application methods will soon not be supported and will be removed. “Match Opposite Entries” means that when applying, the system also searches for matching entries among open entries with opposite symbols. E.g. both invoice and credit invoice entries are used. If the payment was made via Business Central, “Match Credit Transfer Register” automatically matches the transactions with the data from the Credit Transfer Registers.

Setup Signed Payments

In order to send signed payments, the required approvers must be set up in Business Central. The required approvers can be assigned to a bank account both in the Bank Accounts list and separately on each Bank Account card. All assigned users are mandatory for the transmission of the payment - if even one approver signature is missing, the payment will not be transmitted to the bank.

All users who are assigned as approvers must also be set up as Smart-ID users - refer to our Smart-ID User Guide. Email notifications with approval request will be sent to the persons’ email address listed under “Contact Email“ on the User card.

Once the transmission of signed payments has been initiated, it is possible to monitor the status of signatures under Credit Transfer Registers. To do this, the correct payment file must be selected and the “Signers“ field allows viewing of the required signers on a given payment. It is also possible to see which of the required approvers have already signed and when, as well as information on the email notifications sent. On the same page, it is possible to resend email notifications to users whose signatures are still missing.

Transmitting Payments

On the Payment Journal page you can create payments to be sent to the bank. By clicking on the “Transmit to bank…” button under the Bank tab, the report request page opens. Here, it is possible to activate the function Wait for processing result. In this case, the system will wait for the first payment status response from the bank. All the payments in the journal will be combined into one Credit Transfer Register and transmitted to the bank unsigned, i.e. they are saved as pending payments.

It is also possible to sign the transaction in Business Central before transmission, therefore these payments do not need to be approved in the bank. Certain setups mentioned here are necessary before this function can be used. In order to send payments in signed form, the Sign payments function must be toggled on in the pop up window. If the user transmitting the payments is also the required approver for said bank account, the signing process is activated immediately. Other required signees will receive an approval request via email.

Recommendation from Microsoft: After the transmitting payments to the bank, all lines in the Payment Journal should be deleted. The payments should only be posted in the Payment Reconciliation Journal once the payments have been declared correct by the bank.

You can find the exported payment files on the same page using the button, or by searching the view, Credit Transfer Registers. Under the field No. of Transfers, all the transactions of the journal are recorded separately, as well as the payment status for each transaction.

If the user’s role is Accountant, they will have a Real-time bank cue in the Role Center. Information regarding rejected and pending payments will be displayed there. On the Rejected Payments page, each payment can be individually marked as hidden using the “Hide/Unhide” button - this will remove the problematic payment from the Role Center overview.

Incoming Bank Messages

Get bank messages automatically

To get bank messages press the button Get New Bank Messages or setup Job Queue Entries on the bank connector setup page. The process imports new bank statements to the page Incoming Bank Messages. This page is opened with filters: Source and Status.

Clicking on the “Job Queue Entries” button opens the Job Queue Entries page, where you can configure two automatic jobs:

By default, messages that have not yet been processed are displayed. Use the “Show all Messages” to see all entries.

Import bank statement manually

You can manually import the bank statement file on the Incoming Bank Messages page by clicking the Import From File button. The entry is in the Received status.

Processing bank messages

To process the file click Process button.
Then click “Show All Messages” and choose the line.
You see the status – Processed and No. of Saved Transactions.
By pressing this number it is possible to go to the Bank Account Transactions.

Processing Bank Account Transactions

Bank Account Transactions

In Bank Account card there is a new field Balance in Bank. Drilldown in this field to open Bank Account Transactions. By default you can see unposted transactions which need to be applied before they can be posted.

The number of rejected payments is displayed in the Realtime Bank cue in the Role Center. When the page is opened, it is possible to mark each payment as hidden using the button Hide/Unhide, which removes the payment from the overview.

Applying Service Fees

You can use Text-To-Account functionality.

Applying Invoices

Appying can be done either manually or automatically.

For manual application, assign Applied Account No. and click Apply Manually. This will open the list of open ledger entries. Apply entries by clicking Process->Set Applies-to ID.

For automatic application run the action Apply Automatically.

Posting

Applied transaction can be posted to ledger entries by clicking Post action.

In addition Job Queue Entry can be configured, which posts transactions automatically when transaction has been applied and Application Status (quality) is ‘High Confidence’.

Contact Information

For more information and pricing please contact:
https://apps.itera.ee/docs/en-us/support