Generating an ABA bank payment file from your pay run ⚡🏦

Rav
Rav Administrator, Reckon Staff Posts: 13,740 Reckon Community Manager Community Manager
in Reckon Payroll
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You can now generate and download an ABA file directly from your pay run! This streamlines and simplifies the process by eliminating the need to manually create a bank payment outside the pay run.

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Key things to know

Automatic Payments

If your book is set to automatically make payments after each pay run in Payroll Settings ➡️ Payments, Reckon One will automatically generate a payment for each employee when the pay run is marked as paid. You'll find these payments under Day to Day ➡️ Make Payment.

The new Generate ABA button in your pay run

After marking a pay run as paid, the new Generate ABA button will automatically create a bank payment for all employees in the pay run who are paid using EFT.

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The ABA file will be downloaded to your PC using your browser's settings.

Bank account details

Please ensure that you have completed the bank account details for your bank account used for EFT payment. You'll find this in Payroll Settings ➡️ Bank Accounts ➡️ Select your bank account ➡️ Add your Financial Institution and bank account details

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Employee bank account details

Only employees who are set to EFT payment with valid bank account details added in the Banking tab of their profile will be included in an ABA file. Please ensure you have added the employee's correct bank account details for EFT payment prior to generating an ABA file.

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Please note, if an employee is set to Cash, they will be excluded from any ABA file you generate.

Comments

  • Gayle_10863666
    Gayle_10863666 Member Posts: 66 Reckoner Reckoner

    Hello Rav, I only use Payroll in Reckon One, we use desktop Reckon version for the other side of things, just want to confirm please, if the below remains TICKED and the ABA file is generated in the new option in Payroll do the payments still go to Reckon One Accounts Bank Payments & if I UNTICK this and generate the ABA file in the new option in Payroll, they don't? Thank you - Gayle

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  • Rav
    Rav Administrator, Reckon Staff Posts: 13,740 Reckon Community Manager Community Manager

    Hi there @Gayle_10863666

    The Automatic Payments option that you've highlighted above is a requirement for an ABA file to generate from the pay run. Once the file is generated, it will automatically create a payment for every employee in that pay run for you under Banking ➡️ Bank Payments in Reckon One.

    This way it cuts down on the manual steps required to create the bank payment in Reckon One.

  • Tina
    Tina Member Posts: 16 Reckoner Reckoner

    Hi Rav

    Just used this new feature and for an employee who has wages paid to two separate accounts. The ABA is paying the total amount to just one of the accounts. I ran a report and the report shows the wages correctly going to the two accounts but not reflected in the ABA file.

  • Rav
    Rav Administrator, Reckon Staff Posts: 13,740 Reckon Community Manager Community Manager

    Hi @Tina

    Thanks for flagging and apologies for the confusion there. We've got a fix for this in the works right now, in the interim there are a couple of workarounds which I'll link to below from my previous note while get this straightened out for folks with multiple EFT bank accounts.

    https://community.reckon.com/discussion/comment/20653904#Comment_20653904
  • Tina
    Tina Member Posts: 16 Reckoner Reckoner

    Thanks Rav.

    It was actually my pay and I needed to send to the bank ASAP to make the pre public holiday cut off. I can sort that out on my side but appreciate that there is a work around.

    Also, the ABA seems to generate its own payment name. Is there a way to edit this? Our accountant likes it a particular way in the bank and now instead of being named how we like it seems to be pulling from the pay run name.

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