ACH Drafting
ACH Drafting is an additional module that you can purchase for your RVS Mosaics
system. This allows your customers to sign up to have their balances automatically
drafted from their bank accounts each month, ensuring that they never miss a
payment. This will require information from your system's bank to set up.
When you process a draft, the system will generate a file with the payment
information for each customer that is registered to pay via Bank Draft. You
would then submit this file to your bank. The exact method of submission will
differ from bank to bank, but it is typically online from a portal on their
website.
If you would like to inquire about adding ACH Drafting to your system, please
contact Stephanie.
Additional information can be found here on our website.
Processing Drafts
Once you have the ACH Program set up and have entered your customers to the
system, you will be able to do your monthly drafts. To start a draft, go to
Alternate Menu > Bank Draft Program > 3. Process Drafts
.
The program will give you a warning that this process will apply payments to
the accounts. You may want to make a backup before proceeding further.
Next, you may receive a message informing you that a draft file already exists.
This is typical unless you delete your file each month after uploading to your
bank. You can click Yes
to continue.
Then you will see a calendar pop up. This is where you will set your Effective
Entry Date for the draft payments. This is the day that the bank will actually
process the payments from the customers' accounts. Do note that regardless of
the date you select here, the payments will always be entered into RVS on the
day you are currently working in.
Finally you will receive a print out of the ACH Transmittal Register. This
should correctly reflect the total number of accounts drafted and the total
funds drafted. You may also receive a notice of any accounts that did not draft.
This could be due to either incorrect information on the account, or the
account's balance may be higher than the maximum draft amount allowed in your
customer's configuration.
Please note that if you attempt to process a draft a second time you will
receive a draft of zero accounts for $0.00, as all of your accounts should
already have a payment applied for the day and a zeroed balance.
Reprocessing Drafts
Sometimes you may need to re-run a draft after making a correction. To do so,
navigate to the Bank Draft Program like normal. This time, you will
right-click
on 3. Process Drafts
. The program will
ask you if you would like to re-create the draft, to which you can click
Yes
The rest of the process is the same as a normal ACH Draft.
It is very important that you are on the same day that you originally drafted
your accounts when you go to re-create the draft, otherwise you will not
receive a correct transmittal. When you re-create, the program is looking for
all Bank Draft payments issued on the current working day.