Generating an ABA bank payment file from your pay run ⚡🏦
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.
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.
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
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.
Please note, if an employee is set to Cash, they will be excluded from any ABA file you generate.
Comments
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Hi Rav,
Have just tried to use the ABA feature for the first time, I clicked on Word when it asked me which app to use, I'm assuming I should have clicked on the browser Edge instead. How do I change it, as it now defaults to Word?
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Hi @Stacey_6976885,
If you would like to change the software that is used to open it, right click on it and select 'Open with' and choose the program you would like to use.
If you would like to rename the file, you can click F2 and it highlights the text to rename it.
Usually you do not need to do anything after generating an ABA file and can upload straight into your bank account to send off the payments when required.
Thank you and speak to you soon.
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hi all.
love the new button, but there is a glitch.
It uses the date that you press the button as the value date of the ABA file, totally ignoring the value date that the user sets.The quick fix is to open the ABA file in Notepad and correct the value date in the file. The value date of the file is the last 6 digits of the top line.
it looks like this 02/05/010525
The 02/05/ is the day and month that I set (which is ignored), and the last 6 digits 010525 is the value date of the file; the format is ddmmyy. so this example to correct the file to the desired value date from the first of March to the second of March the last 6 digits would be changed from 010525 to 020520.
then the last part of the top line would be 02/05/0205252 -
That's correct, that is by design at this stage. When you generate the ABA from the pay run, it uses the date of ABA creation in the file itself.
The reason for this is, if you generate an ABA from the Bank Payments menu, you manually enter a payment date whereas there's no option to do so on the pay run so the ABA is generated using the date of creation instead.
Would you like to see it use the Pay Date that is designated from the pay run?
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Of course i would like it to use the Pay Date that is designated from the pay run.
What other possible thing could Pay Date be for?
This system, as it stands, makes it impossible to set up pay runs for the future, which I do every week.
I set up the pay run on Thursday with a pay date of Friday.
As the only person who runs the pay for a small business, i sometimes line up two or three pay runs for the weeks ahead (for instance, when i am on holiday).1 -
Good feedback, thank you for that. I'll have a chat with our product team about it and see what can be done there.
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