How to: Create a Bankers' Automated Clearing Service File

In Microsoft Dynamics NAV, you can use Bankers' Automated Clearing Service (BACS) to process financial transactions electronically. To use BACS as the default vendor payment method, you must set export vendor payments to a BACS file using the Export BACS option. The resulting file can then be read by third-party applications to allow electronic bank payments.

You can keep track of BACS events, such as exporting and voiding, with the BACS Ledger Entry table. You can keep track of BACS transmissions using the BACS Register table.

To create a BACS file, you must follow this sequence of activities:

• Set up vendor payment information in the Vendor card window.

• Create the vendor payment using BACS.

• Export the BACS payment file.

To set up vendor payment information in the vendor card

1. In the Search box, enter Vendors, and then choose the related link.

2. Select the relevant vendor. On the Home tab, choose Edit.

3. On the Payments FastTab, in the BACS Account No. field, select the BACS account for the vendor.

4. Choose the OK button.

To create the vendor payment using BACS

1. In the Search box, enter Vendors, and then choose the related link.

2. In the Vendor List window, select the relevant vendor for whom BACS payment was set up in the Vendor card window.

3. To open the Payment Journal window, on the Home tab, in the Process group, choose Payment Journal.

4. Fill in the fields as described in the following table.

   Field	Description
   Document No.	Specifies the document number for the journal line.
   Account Type	Select the account type as Vendor.
   Account No.	Specifies the code of the vendor that you selected in the Vendor Card window.
   Bank Payment Type	Specifies that the payment type to be used for the entry on the payment journal line is BACS.
   BACS Account No.	Specifies the BACS account number that you have set on the vendor card.
   Amount	Specifies the total amount including VAT.

5. Choose the OK button.

See Also

Tasks

How to: Export BACS Files

Reference

BACS Ledger Entry
BACS Register

Concepts

United Kingdom Local Functionality

Other Resources

Payment Journal