Setting Up Auto-Pay Route Types

Auto Pay Route Types are used to control when and how automatic payment requests are routed to a financial institution, and when the general ledger is impacted. Select Admin Menu, Auto Pay Route Type to define your route types.

Description of Page

To modify an auto pay route type, simply move to a field and change its value.

To add a new route type, press + to insert a row, then fill in the information for each field. The following fields display:

Route Type The unique identifier of the route type.

Description The description of the route type.

Tender Source The background process that routes automatic payment requests to a financial institution (e.g., the automated clearing house interface) will mark each automatic payment's associated tender with a tender control for audit and control purposes. The following points describe how this happens:

  • When the system sees that it's time to send an automatic payment to a financial institution, it looks at the automatic payment's auto-pay source.
  • Every auto-pay source references an auto-pay route type.
  • Every auto-pay route type references a tender source.
  • A Tender Source has a tender control for each group of tenders deposited / interfaced together one batch.
  • The system marks each automatic payment's associated tender with the latest tender control for the Tender Source. The system will create a new tender control each time it routes automatic payments to the tender source. Refer to Managing Payments Interfaced From External Sources for more information about tender source and tender control.

Extract Batch Cd This field defines the background process that interfaces the automatic payment requests to the financial institution.

Autopay Date Calculation Alg This algorithm populates 3 dates associated with the automatic payment: 1) the date the automatic payment will be sent to the financial institution, 2) the date the general ledger will be impacted by the automatic payment, 3) the date of the payment.

If you haven't done so already, you must set up this algorithm in the system. To do this, create a new algorithm (refer to Setting Up Algorithms). On this algorithm, reference an Algorithm Type that populates automatic payment dates. Click here to see the algorithm types available for this plug-in spot.

Where Used

Follow this link to open the data dictionary where you can view the tables that reference CI_​APAY_​RT_​TYPE.