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Banks are introducing "Payment Manager" services that allow a business to forward their payables to the bank, where the bank manages them. The first such a service that our software will need to For now, the only service/format we support is Wells Fargo. and where to export payment manager files. 

The Payment Manager process is a lot like the ACH process in terms of how to batch records, send them to a file, and commit the batches once the file is sent. The only real difference is that this new file format accepts APC (Pay Card) formats , as well. For this reason, we will leverage as many patterns and screens from the existing ACH process as we can, extending them rather than changing them to reduce the amount of regression testing (and post-release bugs) we need to perform on the ACH export.

Our intention would be to build this feature to scale, but the only service/format we have is Wells Fargo, and the customer funding the development is Sonstegard. If we have to hard-code something to get this work done in the allotted time it will be to accommodate these stakeholders. 

Prerequisites

To create payment manager files, we will need:

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