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Create ACH Template (Singapore)

Geography: This article is applicable for ANZ Transactive - Global customers banking in Singapore.
Full details are available in Features by Geography.
Payment templates will be available from January 2025.
About ACH Templates

What is an ACH template?

ACH (Automated Clearing House) template allows you to setup frequently used payment instructions to transfer funds from your Singapore domiciled SGD account registered to ANZ Transactive – Global, to a beneficiary's Singapore domiciled SGD account in Singapore. Funds are credited to the beneficiary account on the next working day.

Once successfully created, you can use the preconfigured template to create your payment instructions.

Payment template rules for ACH payments

  • Disable Beneficiary changes prevent users from adding or editing any beneficiaries when a payment is created from a template. If your organisation has enabled this product setting in Division Settings, then this indicator cannot be removed.
  • Fields marked with an asterisk (*) within a template are considered mandatory. Additional information can be added at time of payment, including value date, additional information, supporting document, etc.
  • Individual Debit indicator will not be displayed for Domestic Salary Payments as this will automatically be enabled by default.
  • Template Approvals are required if your organisation needs Approval for templates when creating, editing or deleting a template. Once approved, the template can be used to create a payment.
  • New Beneficiaries added to a template may need to be approved before the template can be used to create a payment.

Who can create an ACH template?

  • Eligible users with Payment Management role permissions and account access can create and manage an ACH template based on your organisation's predetermined user permissions and payment settings. These role permissions can include:
    • Manage Payments - Adhoc (Adhoc & Approved Beneficiaries)
    • Manage Payments - Approved Beneficiary / Templates
    • Manage Payments - Import Payments

Who can create and action a Domestic Salary payment template?

  • The Domestic Salary payment template option is only available to view and action if you have the following entitlements:
    • Payroll - view full payment instructions
    • Mask Confidential - view limited payment instructions when approving the payment.
  • Fields within a salary payment will be masked, including beneficiary name, beneficiary bank, account number, reference and payment method. These fields will be represented by 'XXXX' and only visible to users with applicable entitlements.
For more information, please refer to Role Permissions and User Permissions.
Payment template input screens
Domestic payment template screen
The following image is an example of a domestic payment screen with fields including the division, debit account, payment method, template name and description, and beneficiary details.
Domestic Payment Template screen (ACH).png
Beneficiary Payment Details screen
The following image is an example of a Beneficiary Payment Details screen with fields including the beneficiary's name, address and account details, beneficiary bank details, purpose code, beneficiary email advice option and additional remittance information.
Beneficiary Payment Details screen (ACH).png
Beneficiary Details screen
The following image is an example of the Beneficiary Details screen with fields including the beneficiary bank details, beneficiary's name and beneficiary email address.
Beneficiary Details screen (ACH).png

Create ACH template

To create a domestic payment template, follow the steps below:

STEP ACTION
1 Click Payments > Templates menu.
2 Click New on the Control Bar.
3 Click Domestic Payment Template or Domestic Salary Payment Template.
4 If required, select the Division the payment will be made from.
If you are entitled to more than one division, you can set a default division for future payments.
5 Select the Debit Account.
6 Select ACH Payment Method.
7 Enter a Template Name up to 35 characters. This will become the Template Name when you create a payment from the template.
8 Enter Template Description up to 40 characters.
9 Enter a Payment Reference up to 35 characters that will appear within the narrative on the funding account, beneficiary's statement and payment reports.
10 If required, enter a Debit Advice Description up to 55 characters that will appear on your debit account statement.
11 If required, tick the Individual Debits indicator to generate a separate debit entry on your account for each individual beneficiary payment instruction.
Not available for Domestic Salary payments.
12 If required, untick the Disable Beneficiary changes for Payments created from this Template indicator to allow beneficiaries to be added or edited.
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To reduce the risk of fraud, ANZ recommends you always confirm beneficiary details when processing a payment.
Control Bar
CONTROL BAR ITEM DESCRIPTION
Add Add individual Beneficiary details to the payment instruction.
Remove Tick the checkbox next to the Beneficiary details, then click Remove.
Filter Filter data on the screen. Enter criteria into one or more text boxes that are under each column heading to display matching records.

Click Add to add one or more beneficiary details using the following options:
Add Beneficiary from your Beneficiaries list
Search and select the Beneficiary from the Beneficiary Name field, then proceed to next steps. If required, click Add again to add additional beneficiaries.
Add New Beneficiary
Users must have entitlements to create new beneficiaries to complete these steps.
STEP ACTION
1 Click Add New Beneficiary from the Beneficiary Name field.
2 Enter Beneficiary Bank Details:
    1. SWIFT - BIC Code - Enter or search for the Beneficiary Bank SWIFT code
    2. Account Number - Enter the beneficiary account number up to 34 characters
      • HSBC SG or OCBC SG accounts should be greater than 9 digits
      • SBI SG accounts should be greater than 11 digits
    3. Select Account Type
      • Resident Individual
      • Non-Resident Individual
      • Resident Corporate
      • Non-Resident Corporate
3 Enter Beneficiary Details:
    1. Beneficiary Name - Enter full legal name or registered legal entity name or beneficiary up to 140 characters
    2. Email Address - If required, enter Beneficiary email address(es) up to 255 characters, separated by a comma
    3. Country or Region - Select Beneficiary country or region
    4. Address Line 1 & 2 - If required, enter Beneficiary address up to 35 characters per line
    5. City - If required, enter Beneficiary City up to 35 characters
4 Click Save
5 If required, click Add again to add additional beneficiaries.
Proceed to next steps.
14 If required, enter Client Reference up to 35 characters if different from the Payment Reference prepopulated.
15 If required, enter the Beneficiary payment amount.
This can be added or updated at time of payment.
16 If required, click Beneficiary Payment Details icon to view or update additional beneficiary information:
Add or update Beneficiary Payment Details
STEP ACTION
1 Add or edit Beneficiary.
2 Add or edit Payment Amount.
3 Add or edit Client Reference up to 35 characters.
4 Select Purpose Code
Purpose Codes & Descriptions
PURPOSE CODE DESCRIPTION
ACCT Account Management
ADVA Advance Payment
AGRT Agricultural Transfer
AIRB Air
ALLW Allowance
ALMY Alimony Payment
ANNI Annuity
ANTS Anesthesia Services
AREN Accounts Receivables Entry
BBSC Baby Bonus Scheme
BECH Child Benefit
BENE Unemployment Disability Benefit
BEXP Business Expenses
BOCE Back Office Conversion Entry
BONU Bonus Payment
BUSB Bus
CASH Cash Management Transfer
CBFF Capital Building
CBTV Cable TV Bill
CCRD Credit Card Payment
CDBL Credit Card Bill
CDCB Card Payment with CashBack
CDCD Cash Disbursement
CDOC Original Credit
CDQC Quasi Cash
CFEE Cancellation Fee
CHAR Charity Payment
CLPR Car Loan Principal Repayment
CMDT Commodity Transfer
COLL Collection Payment
COMC Commercial Payment
COMM Commission
COMT Consumer Third Party Consolidated Payment
COST Costs
CPKC Carpark Charges
CPYR Copyright
CSDB Cash Disbursement
CSLP Company Social Loan Payment To Bank
CVCF Convalescent Care Facility
DBTC Debit Collection Payment
DCRD Debit Card Payment
DEPT Deposit
DERI Derivatives
DIVD Dividend
DMEQ Durable Medical Equipment
DNTS Dental Services
EDUC Education
ELEC Electricity Bill
ENRG Energies
ESTX Estate Tax
FCPM Payment of Fees & Charges
FERB Ferry
FREX Foreign Exchange
FWLV Foreign Worker Levy
GASB Gas Bill
GDDS Purchase Sale Of Goods
GDSV Purchase Sale Of Goods And Services
GOVI Government Insurance
GOVT Government Payment
GSCB Purchase Sale Of Goods And Services With Cash Back
GSTX Goods & Services Tax
HEDG Hedging
HLRP Housing Loan Repayment
HLTC Home Health Care
HLTI Health Insurance
HSPC Hospital Care
HSTX Housing Tax
ICCP Irrevocable Credit Card Payment
ICRF Intermediate Care Facility
IDCP Irrevocable Debit Card Payment
IHRP Instalment Hire Purchase Agreement
INPC Insurance Premium Car
INSU Insurance Premium
INTC IntraCompany Payment
INTE Interest
INVS Investment & Securities
IVPT Invoice Payment
LBRI Labor Insurance
LICF License Fee
LIFI Life Insurance
LIMA Liquidity Management
LOAN Loan
LOAR Loan Repayment
LTCF Long Term Care Facility
MDCS Medical Services
MSVC Multiple Service Types
NETT Netting
NITX Net Income Tax
NOWS Not Otherwise Specified
NWCH Network Charge
NWCM Network Communication
OFEE Opening Fee
OTHR Other
OTLC Other Telecom Related Bill
PADD Preauthorized debit
PAYR Payroll
PENS Pension Payment
PHON Telephone Bill
POPE Point of Purchase Entry
PPTI Property Insurance
PRCP Price Payment
PRME Precious Metal
PTSP Payment Terms
PTXP Property Tax
RCKE Re-presented Check Entry
RCPT Receipt Payment
RDTX Road Tax
REBT Rebate
REFU Refund
RENT Rent
RINP Recurring Installment Payment
RLWY Railway
ROYA Royalties
SALA Salary Payment
SALY Salary Payments
SAVG Savings
SCVE Purchase Sale Of Services
SECU Securities
SSBE Social Security Benefit
STDY Study
SUBS Subscription
SUPP Supplier Payment
TAXS Tax Payment
TBIL Telco Bill
TCSC Town Council Service Charges
TELI Telephone-Initiated Transaction
TRAD Trade Services
TREA Treasury Payment
TRFD Trust Fund
TRPT Transport
UBIL Utilities
VATX Value Added Tax Payment
VIEW Vision Care
WEBI Internet-Initiated Transaction
WHLD With Holding
WTER Water Bill
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The option to charge your beneficiary is not available in ANZ Transactive – Global. If you have elected to charge your beneficiary in a file import, the system will default the charges to SHA.

Select Charges:

  • SHA - you pay outgoing transfer charges and the beneficiary pays the correspondent bank charges. The beneficiary will receive the payment minus the correspondent bank charges.
  • OUR - you pay all transfer charges, and the beneficiary receives the full amount of the payment
6 If required, enter Remittance Information up to 140 characters. This will appear on the Beneficiary Advice and Payment Detail Report.
7 If required, enter Additional Information up to 8000 characters. This will appear on the Beneficiary Advice and Payment Detail Report and is not included in the payment.
8 If required, enter Debit Advice Description up to 55 characters
9 If required, tick Email Beneficiary Advice and enter email address(es) up to 255 characters, separated by a comma
10 Click Save
17 Do you wish to continue the payment at a later stage?
  • Yes - Click Save as Draft, then click OK, then click Close to exit out to the payment and return to the Current Payments screen. Payment will be in a Draft status.
  • No - Continue steps below
18 Click Review & Submit.
19 Click Submit.
RESULT: Payment has been submitted and pending approval.

 

Errors and Alerts
Error and alert messages such as 'fields validations' display information about the impacted field(s) and highlights the field(s) in red. Error messages are specific to the payment method types, fields available and particulars validations. You can update the information within the impacted field(s) and continue processing the payment.

Mandatory field validations:

Error - Mandatory fields (Osko).png

Beneficiary alert notifications:

  • Error is indicated by a red triangle. Details must be corrected to proceed with payment processing.
  • Alert with Warning is indicated by an amber triangle. Details can be corrected or accepted to proceed with payment processing.
Beneficiary Alert Message.png

Errors and Alerts within the Beneficiary Payment Details screen:

  • Error is indicated by a red triangle. Details must be corrected to proceed with payment processing
  • Alert with Warning is indicated by an amber triangle. Details can be corrected or accepted to proceed with payment processing
Alerts Error Message.png

Next Steps

When the payment template has been successfully submitted for approval and is in a Pending Approval status, the next steps can be:

When the payment template has been successfully approved and is in an Approved status, the next steps can be:

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