Can ACH payment format use for Employee Payment Method?

Hi, 

Sorry, HR and Finance are different. HR has its own payment functionality - it does not utilize the same finance process / files. 

A semi-common process (meaning it’s been done a few times or more), is a custom event that converts a HR expense report to a supplier invoice. The concept then uses AP payment flow to pay the employee. Employees would need to be suppliers.  

Best regards, 

Thomas

Hi Thomas/Aurelia,

We used to be able to create a bacs.dat file from the employee expenses. This could be imported into the bank and pay by BACS. The Employee was set up with Property Codes to store the Bank Account under EMPPAYACC and Sort Code under EPSORTCODE.

This may have been a UK localization that was deprecated. 

I am very surprised there is no standard functionality to raise and process an expenses payment now.

If it is a customization using an HR Expense Report I guess that could be imported as an External Supplier Invoice file, but presumably with 1 invoice per Supplier/Employee payment.

Do you have any example documentation?

Cheers,

Graham 

Many clients export the expense reports and other data to the payroll system, where the payroll system generates the payment in a similar way as the salaries. 

Other clients have used a custom event to generate a supplier invoice.  With the improvements to BPA, I suspect that BPA can create the supplier invoice. A BPA may be the best option.

I do not have documentation for these CRIMS / configurations.  

As you wrote, another option could be to create an import file for external supplier invoice. This would follow traditional external files / external invoice flow, where a template is used.  The template ideally would be something created by a client in an effort to reduce the number of IFS attributes, and better position the attributes for improved file structure.   

External files / external invoices is a topic covered a number of times in this forum. I don’t have documentation. 

Best regards, 

Thomas

Thanks Thomas. Much appreciated. I have not played with IFS Business Process Automation yet. Maybe time I did :-) Or perhaps external supplier invoice file for now due to time constraints.

Keep up the good work on the forums - you have helped me often :-)