How to: Set Up Electronic Banking
With electronic banking, you can make electronic payments to domestic, international, SEPA, and non-Euro SEPA vendors and customers.
Your company subscribes to an eBanking contract with the bank to maintain a certain bank account or several bank accounts. The company also subscribes to Isabel to send payment files to and receive bank statement files from the bank electronically. Therefore, the company receives smartcards linked to the eBanking contract. The smartcards are secured by PIN codes.
You will receive one of these smartcards to connect to IBS so that you are connected to the eBanking contract of the company.
When uploading to or downloading files from the IBS platform, you will insert the smartcard in the card reader and use a PIN code to make connection to IBS. When the IBS session is established, the eBanking contract and eBanking user is known by the system. Also the eBanking contract and user linked bank account numbers are known.
Before you can use electronic banking, you must set up the following information:
Electronic banking setup.
IBLC/BLWI codes - For more information, see How to: Set Up IBLC/BLWI Transaction Codes.
Preferred bank accounts (optional).
To set up electronic banking
In the Search box, enter Electronic Banking Setup, and then choose the related link.
In the Electronic Banking Setup window, on the General FastTab, fill in the fields as described in the following table. For more information about a specific field, select the field, and then press F1.
Field Description Summarize Gen. Jnl. Lines
Select to indicate if you want to group the payment journal lines for each vendor.
Cut off Payment Message Texts
Select to indicate if you want to truncate long payment messages. Messages will be truncated if greater than 106 characters for domestic payments and less than 140 characters for international payments.
IBS Version
Specify the version of Isabel that is currently used for electronic banking in your organization.
Notification E-mail address
Specify the notification email address that you want to use for electronic banking balance and transaction messages. This is the default address that is used to contact the Isabel server.
Language
Specify the language that you want to use for electronic bank balance and transaction messages.
IBS Service Version
Specify the service version that is used to communicate with the Isabel server.
On the Upload FastTab, fill in the fields as described in the following table. For more information about a specific field, select the field, and then press F1.
Field Description Upload Integration Mode
Specify the mode that you want to use to upload content to the Isabel server. The integration mode options include Attended and Manual. If the integration mode is set to Attended, you must set the IBS Version field to 6. The entries in the IBS Log table will be created when payment files are generated. If the integration mode is set to Manual, you must log on to the Isabel server manually and no log entries will be created.
Upload Path
Specify the path to the folder where the files will be saved during the upload process.
On the Download FastTab, fill in the fields as described in the following table. For more information about a specific field, select the field, and then press F1.
Field Description Download Integration Mode
Specify the mode that you want to use to download content to the Isabel server. The options include Attended and Manual. If the integration mode is set to Attended, you must set the IBS Version field to 6. The entries in the IBS Log table will be created when the download is performed. If the integration mode is set to Manual, you must log on to the Isabel server manually and no log entries will be created.
Download Path
Specify the path to the folder where the files will be saved during the download process.
On the Numbering FastTab, fill in the fields as described in the following table. For more information about a specific field, select the field, and then press F1.
Field Description IBS Log Upload Nos.
Specify the number series that is used for Isabel log entries created during the file upload process.
IBS Log Download Nos.
Specify the number series that is used for Isabel log entries created during the file download process.
IBS Request ID
Specify a number sequence used for automatic and unique numbering of the requests.
Choose the OK button.
Optionally, you can assign bank accounts to each customer and vendor. This helps make electronic payments simpler. The following procedure explains how to assign preferred bank accounts to customers, but the same steps also apply to vendors.
To add a preferred bank account to a customer
In the Search box, enter Customers, and then choose the related link.
Select a customer, and then choose Edit.
On the Payments FastTab, enter the Preferred Bank Account, and then choose the OK button.
Note
For all payments, use one bank account for each customer or vendor.
Choose the OK button.
See Also
Tasks
How to: Set Up IBLC/BLWI Transaction Codes
How to: Set Up Vendors for Automatic Payment Suggestions
How to: Generate Payment Suggestions
How to: Create Payment Journal Templates and Batches
How to: Test Electronic Payments
How to: Manage Electronic Payment Lines
How to: Print Payment Files
Concepts
Belgian Electronic Banking
Belgian Electronic Payments