Overview

 

Importing is the process that brings data into ACH Universal.  There are actually several different ways to bring in data.

 

Data can be classified into two categories:

•Transactions - Data represent a transaction to be mapped to transaction in the ACH file.

•Profiles - Data represent a payee profile (customer, employee, or vendor), which is used in conjunction with a transaction file to create the entries in the ACH file

 

Profiles alone do not contain enough information to create an ACH file as they are not associated with any specific transaction.  Transactional data can include the payee information.  If your accounting system uses profiles, transactional data includes a field that identifies a specific payee by name or ID number (most common).

 

 

In some situations, you may want to enter a transaction (or sometimes several transactions) manually instead of using a file import.  See Entering Transactions Manually for information on manual entry.