Creating a Payment Creation Request

Prerequisites

To create a payment creation request, you should have:

  • Payment request types defined in the application (where the Transfer option is not selected).

  • Required match types defined in the application.

  • Required tender types and tender sources defined in the application.

  • Required characteristic types defined in the application (where the characteristic entity is set to Payment).

  • Required characteristic types defined in the application (where the characteristic entity is set to Payment Tender).

Procedure

To create a payment creation request:

  1. Click the Menu link in the Application toolbar.
    A list appears.
  2. From the Main menu, select Payments and then click Payment Request.
    A sub-menu appears.
  3. Click the Add option from the Payment Request sub-menu.

    The Select Payment Request Type screen appears. It contains the following field:

    Field Name Field Description Mandatory (Yes or No)
    Payment Request Type Used to indicate the payment request type using which you want to create the payment creation request.
    Note: The list includes only those payment request types which are already defined in the system where the Transfer option is not selected.
    		 Yes
    Tip: Alternatively, you can access the Select Payment Request Type screen by clicking the Add button in the Page Title area of the Payment Request screen.
  4. Select the required payment request type from the respective field.
  5. Click OK.

    The Payment Request screen appears. It contains the following sections:

    • Main - Used to specify basic details about the payment creation request.

    • Tender Details - Used to specify the tender details in the payment creation request.

    • Characteristics - Used to define the characteristics for the payment tender.

    • Match Types - Used to define match types for the payment creation request.

    The Main section contains the following fields:

    Field Name Field Description Mandatory (Yes or No)
    Payment Request Type Indicates the payment request type using which you want to create the payment creation request. Not applicable
    Payor Account Information Used to indicate the payor account for which you want to create the payment creation request.
    Note:

    The Search (The Search Icon) icon appears corresponding to this field. On clicking the Search icon, the Account Search window appears.

    On specifying the account ID, the information about the account appears corresponding to the Payor Account Information field.

    		 Yes
    Payment Date Used to specify the date when the payment was made.
    Note:

    By default, the current date appears in this field.

    You can either manually specify the date or select it using the Date Picker (The Date Picker Icon) icon corresponding to the field.

    		 Yes
  6. Enter the required details in the Main section.
  7. Add the required tender details in the payment creation request.
  8. Define characteristics for the tender, if required.
  9. Define the required match types for the payment creation request.
  10. Click Manual Distribution.
    The payment creation request is created and the status of the payment creation request is set to Draft.
    Note:

    If a payment creation request is already created for a payee account and is currently in progress, the system will not allow you to create another payment creation request for a payee account, until the status of this payment creation request is either changed to Processed or Rejected.

    The system does not allow you to create a payment creation request for a payee account when the respective match type entities such as, unpaid bills, unpaid bill segments, contracts, or settlement IDs do not exist for a payee account.

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