AWV notifications

This tab is available for administrators and managers, but with different scope for the entire installation and for individual tenants. It refers to the AWV notifications to the Deutsche Bundesbank (German Federal Bank), which must be generated for cross-border cash transactions in accordance with the German Foreign Trade and Payments Ordinance (Außenwirtschaftsverordnung, AWV). In principle, AWV participants and report data have to be created manually.

You can use the checkboxes to automatically prepare the report data on the basis of account statements and payments and then complete them with the action AWV notifications – AWV report data. Only use one of the two options. Otherwise AWV report data will be created twice.

Create AWV report data when receiving account statements / Create AWV report data when sending new payments

If AWV messages are to be created automatically during retrieval of account statements or sending payments, activate the respective checkbox.

Payments can be recorded manually or exist as external payment files. In order to generate AWV notifications during sending external files, the checkbox Display signed payments from external files must also be checked in the system settings under Payment recording.

Create AWV report data, if no conversion factor is available

Current ECB exchange rates are available, but not for all currencies worldwide. By default, no AWV notifications are generated if no conversion factor is knows for an amount in a foreign currency because the correct amount in euros cannot be calculated. If you set Yes, an AWV notification is created with the amount in the field Amount reference. The amount in euros must be entered manually.

Format for the AWV report file*

The standard format for AWV report files is XML. Alternatively, you can select the CSV format.

Figure: System settings for AWV notifications