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Generate and download a bank file

To pay a supplier or employee using bank files, generate the bank payment file for your payments, download the file, and upload it to the bank portal outside of Sage Intacct.

Bank file workflow
❶ Pay AP purchase invoices or select expenses	❷ Generate and download bank file	❸ Upload and confirm bank file

Subscription	Cash Management or Expenses Sage Cloud Services
Regional availability	Bank file payments are only available between banks that use the same currency in the following countries: Australia Canada France Ireland South Africa United Kingdom United States
User type	Business user with admin privileges
Permissions	Cash Management or Expenses Bank file generator: Run Bank files: List, View, Manage, Export, Confirm, Delete
Restrictions	Bank file payments are only available between banks that use the same currency.

Do one of the following:

For supplier payments: Go to Cash Management > All > Payment files > Bank file generation.
For employee reimbursements: Go to Expenses > All > Payment files > Bank file generation.

If you do not see options for bank file payments:

To generate bank file payments, you need additional permissions.

Application	Required permissions
Cash Management	Locate the permissions for Bank file generator, and add permissions to Run. Locate the permissions for Bank file and add List, View, Manage, Export, Confirm, and Delete permissions.
Expenses (for employee expense reimbursements)	Locate the permissions for Bank file generator, and add permissions to Run. Locate the permissions for Bank file and add List, View, Manage, Export, Confirm, and Delete permissions.

Optionally, select Filter to filter the list of payments by cheque account, supplier or employee, payee, currency, or date.
Select the payment requests to include in the bank payment file.

Intacct generates a bank file for each bank. If you select all payments, the system creates different bank payment files for each bank. For example, if you have 7 payments for your Bank A, and 3 payments for your Bank B, the system creates two bank payment files, one for each bank.
Select Generate files.

The generated file appears on the Bank Payment Files page. To find this page later, go to Cash Management > All > Payment Files > Bank payment files.

For employee expense reimbursements: Go to Expenses > All > Payment files > Bank payment files.
In the Status column, select Download to download your bank payment file.

Save the file to your computer to a folder where you have permissions to save files.

Next step: Upload and confirm a bank file or ACH payment

Change the maximum number of payments in a payment file

You can group more payments into a single payment file by editing your user preferences to change the number of records that you see in a list page. This option changes the behavior for all lists, which can impact system performance if you choose to display more than 250 records per page.

Go to My preferences.
In the Display group find the Personalize page defaults section.
Select Records per page and choose an option like 100.

This is the maximum number of payments that you can add to a single payment file.
Select Save.