8.6.3 Forward Status Change

A ‘forward’ status change is one in which the status changes from one to the next. In our example, the movement from Active to PDO, PDO to NAB and NAB to Write Off are all forward changes. A ‘reverse’ status change is one in which the status changes from one to the previous. Such a situation arises when a payment is made on a placement with a status other than Active.

If you specify that reverse changes have to be carried out automatically, the status will be changed when a payment is made on a placement with a status other than Active. If you specify that reverse changes should not be automatic; the status remains unchanged even if a repayment is made on the placement. The status has to be changed by you through the Contract Processing function. A reverse change may also become necessary when the number of days of default is increased for a product.

If you specify that forward changes or reverse changes have to be carried out automatically, the status changes will be carried out by the Automatic Contract Update function when it is run either during Beginning of Day processes on the day the change falls due.

If the day on which the forward or reverse status change is due happens to be a holiday, then, the processing depends upon your specifications in the Branch Parameters screen.

• If you have specified that processing has to be done today (the last working day before the holiday) for automatic events right up to the day before the next working day, the events falling on the holiday will be processed during end of day on the last working day before the holiday.
• If you have specified that processing has to be done only up to the System Date (today), then only the events scheduled for today (the last working day before the holiday) will be processed. The events of the holiday are processed on the next working day after the holiday, during beginning of day processing.

If you specify that the forward or reverse changes should not be carried out automatically, the status remains unchanged till you specifically change it for a placement, through the Contract Processing function.

At the time of processing a placement, you can change the automatic mode of status change you have specified for the product to the manual mode, or vice-versa. However, this will apply to all status.