Generate a standard ACH file

The Generate ACH file page contains a list of payment requests that are ready to be included in an ACH file and sent to your bank.

Payment requests that appear for selection include the following:

• Payment requests that were created when you selected bills to pay on the Pay bills page using the ACH payment method.
• Payment requests that were created when you selected expenses to reimburse on the Time & Expenses Select to Reimburse page using the ACH payment method.

1. Go to Cash Management > All > Payment files > ACH file generation.

2. Select the checkbox next to each payment request to include in the file.

   To limit the payments that display in this list, select Customize list and filter the list of payments.

   Customize the list of standard ACH payments

   Limit your list of payments to only those payment files to generate right now.

   1. Sort and define the number of records per page in the Payment range/sorting section.

      By default, standard ACH payments are sorted by date.

      To change the number of payments that appear on a page, for Max rows, select 50, 100, or 200.

   2. Filter the payments by the account that they’re drawn on and select a Checking account.

   3. Filter the payments by vendor or employee and use the options to Select all employees or Select all vendors. Or, filter for a range of employees or vendors.

   4. Limit the listed payments by date and under Time period:

      • Choose a Payment period and select a standard accounting period such as Current Month or Prior Quarter.

        Then, enter an As of date to calculate the corresponding time period. The As of Date default is the current date.

      • Choose a date range by entering a Start date and End date .
   5. Select View.

3. Select Generate file to create one standard ACH file per ACH bank.

   One standard ACH file can consist of multiple payments.