Visma Net
About batch payment matching
Batch payment processing is a widely used practice, and Visma Net provides this feature for both Supplier ledger and Customer ledger payments. You can group your supplier payments into a batch and export it for further processing by a money transfer operator.
For more information, see About payment methods for suppliers and About the preparation of deposits.
Financial institutions may report a payment batch as a single line on the bank statement or provide a detailed list of the payments included in a batch. Some banks give their customers the option to choose between detailed reporting or not, while others always report in one of the two ways, which may vary for Customer ledger and Supplier ledger.
This topic covers the clearing and reconciliation of batch payments in Visma Net.
If your bank delivers a statement in which a Supplier ledger batch payment is reported as a
single transaction, you should indicate to the system that during processing of the imported
bank transactions in the Process bank transactions (CA306000) window, the system
should search for a match among released Supplier ledger batch payments, as well as among
individual payments.
To do this, you select the Match bank transactions to batch
payments check box in the Cash accounts (CA202000) window
for the cash account that represents your bank account. Additionally, you may indicate to
the system to search for a match also among the Supplier ledger batches that are not
released yet, by selecting the Allow matching to unreleased batch
payments check box on the Bank statement settings tab
of the Cash management preferences (CA101000) window.
If your bank reports a batch payment as a list of individual payments, make sure that the Match bank transactions to batch payments check box is cleared for the cash account that represents your bank account.
With the Match bank transactions to batch payments check box selected, when you process imported transactions in the Process bank transactions (CA306000) window and match (manually or automatically) a bank transaction to a Supplier ledger batch, the system clears the batch and all payments from this batch.
If you cannot find the particular Supplier ledger batch in the Process bank transactions (CA306000) window to match a bank transaction, check whether payments from this batch have been matched already to some other bank transactions. If at least one payment from a Supplier ledger batch has been matched, the system does not display this batch in the Process bank transactions (CA306000) window. You can clear the Matched check box for such a payment and perform the matching process once again.
Then when you prepare a reconciliation statement in the Reconciliation statements (CA302000) window, the system displays this Supplier ledger batch in the list of transactions instead of the individual payments from this batch.
When you save the reconciliation statement for the first time and the system assigns a
reference number to it, the value of the Match bank transactions to batch
payments check box at this moment is preserved by the system for this particular
statement.
If you change the value of the check box after the reconciliation statement was first
saved, the system will display the Bank transactions are matched to batch
payments check box in the Reconciliation statements (CA302000) window.
This check box will
reflect the value of match bank transactions to batch payments at the
moment when the statement was first saved.
The system will handle Supplier ledger batch
payments based on the original setting before you first saved the reconciliation statement.
If your bank reports a deposit as a list of included payments, you should also record the individual payments in the system, so they can be easily reconciled with the lines in the bank statement.
If your bank reports deposits as a single line, we recommend that you use the bank deposit
processing offered by Visma Net.
After you match (manually or automatically) a bank transaction to a deposit registered in the system and process matched bank transactions in the Process bank transactions (CA306000) window, the system clears the deposit and all payments it includes.
Then when you prepare a reconciliation statement in the Process bank transactions (CA306000) window, the system displays the deposit in the list of transactions instead of the individual payments it includes.
Related concepts
About the reclassification of unknown payments
About cash transaction processing
About cash transaction monitoring
About cash account configuration
Related tasks
Enable customer and supplier recognition for bank transactions
Set up transaction matching settings
Set default cash account for payments and transactions
Disable the automatic creation of supplier prepayments during auto-matching
Disable the automatic creation of customer payments when bank payment amount is not fully applied
Activate automatic post and release for purchase documents
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