Create ABA File from within Reckon Payroll

Mark_9171963

It would be very useful to be able to create the ABA file for payroll purposes from within Reckon Payroll itself.

Currently we have to use the product switcher and go into Reckon One banking module and create the ABA file from there. As we are not using Reckon One for our accounting software, this process creates ever increasing negative values within the Reckon One nominated bank account.

Rav

Hi everyone!

Reckon One has received an update today which includes the ability to create a bank payment file (ABA) directly from your pay run. For more info, check out our detailed post here - Generating an ABA bank payment file from your pay run ⚡🏦

Mark_9171963

Well done and thank you!

Mark_9171963

Hi Rav, unfortunatley there seems to be a problem with this.

We have some employees that require split payments into separate bank accounts. The ABA file generated directly from the payrun did not split the payments. It allocated everything into one bank account. Refer to screen shot of setting we have for one employee that has been working fine up till now.

Rav

Thanks for calling this out @Mark_9171963, let me get some info on this from the team.

Rav

Ok, just had a chat with the product team and they've tested this out.

As you've said, it looks as though employees who have multiple bank accounts and splitting payments between them aren't working correctly using the new Generate ABA button in the pay run as it should be.

We've got one of the devs looking into this right now.

In the interim though, there are a couple of workarounds that the team have let me know;

1️⃣ Once the bank payment has been created, go to that payment, remove the employee and re-add them. This will then split the payments as expected.

2️⃣ If you create the bank payment under Bank Payments and generate the file there, then the amounts will split as expected

I'm not in tomorrow or Monday but I'll ask the support team to keep a close eye on this as we're hoping to get a hotfix out for this ASAP. I'll also add a note on the main release announcement.

Mark_9171963

Thanks for the workaround but too late in the day and payment has already been made!

Mark_9171963

Hi Rav, Do you any updates on whether you guys have resolved this yet?

Rav

Hi @Mark_9171963

Sure do! The team have been looking into the code that is causing this to occur and are pretty close to a solution. To be transparent, the Easter and ANZAC Day periods next week is going to affect any/all updates to the service so this is going to come through the week starting 28 April.

I'll keep you posted.