Figure: Retrieval settings for account statements, advices, credit advices and batched transaction files
Here you set whether and how Account statements, Advices, Credit advices for SEPA instant credit transfers, and Batched transactiong files shall be retrieved from this bank.
Use this checkbox to enable or disable the respective retrieval. If this bank does not offer advices, for example, switch off the retrieval to avoid error notifications when retrieving advices.
The format must be set to the one provided by your bank. Selecting a radio button makes the following field Fetch order type editable. Enter the fetch order type used by the bank. Account statements and payment advices can be retrieved in either the SWIFT formats MT940 or MT942 or the XML formats camt.053 or camt.052 in accordance with ISO 20022. The French format CFONB120 is also possible for account statements. Credit advices for SEPA instant transfers and batched transaction files are only available in the camt.054 format.
The date is entered here each time a retrieval is made. You can retrieve statements again by entering a past date. The same function is also available in the preferences under Account information – Bank settings; there for all your banks, but only for account statements and advices.
Banks generally provide statements per customer, i.e. for the contractual partners of a credit institution such as your organization, not for individual EBICS subscribers such as yourself. When you retrieve account statements, advices and credit advices, or batched booking files from the Provision, they are deleted at the bank. This prevents other subscribers belonging to the same customer, e.g. your team, from retrieving statements that have already been retrieved. The default setting From–To ensures that statements are requested from the bank starting from the date specified in the field Last fetch. If BL Banking is operated with several users in single-user installations, the From–To retrieval method means that the account statements are available in each single-user installation.
There are two different methods banks use to provide their customers with advice files. Some banks include all transactions in the current advice, while others only include the most recent transactions. Select the checkbox according to the advice of your bank. This way, you can prevent that adviced bookings appear twice or are overwritten.
Some banks announce bookings again that have already been advised, i.e., they repeat them on the following days until they are posted in the account statement. This causes the value date balances to be calculated incorrectly. Check the box if your bank proceeds like this.
A booking can be included in the first advice in pending state PDNG and in a further advice in state Booked. To prevent such bookings from being included twice when calculating the value date balances, you can uncheck the box. This means that advised bookings in this status are ignored when calculating value date balances.
Credit advices are included in the calculation of value date balances by default. Uncheck the box if the bank provides information from credit advices again as a normal advice in order to avoid double counting.
Figure: Retrieval settings for account statements, advices, credit advices and batched transaction files