FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUSINESS BANKING

Author:                       Laura Stewart

Date:                           January 2009

Audience:                   Bookkeeping/Agents

Summary:                   Importing Batches on FNB Business Banking

CONTENTS:

· Introduction

· How to capture Electronic Payments on LegalSuite

· Sign–on to FNB Online Banking

· Steps to Import the payment batch

· Conclusion

Introduction:

We have a feature on LegalSuite that can assist you with payments if you use a business on line banking facility. This feature allows you to export your payment batch to a txt file, save this file in a folder and when doing your Internet banking, you merely import the file and it creates the payments for you.

Firstly we will have a look at how to capture and export these transactions in LegalSuite. Secondly we will look at how to import these transactions in to your FNB Online banking.

How to capture Electronic Payments on LegalSuite:

Enter a payment batch in the usual way, with all the relevant information but change the voucher description to Electronic Payment (Fig 1).

Fig 1: Business Payment Will Be Added Screen

· Click the OK button

· Click on the  icon and select electronic payments. The following screen will appear (Fig 2):

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Fig 2: Electronic Payment Screen 

Click on the relevant icon, in this case, the account is for FNB and therefore, the FNB Icon must be selected.  This is because each bank has a different format of text file.

The following screen will appear (Fig 3):

Fig 3: Create Electronic Payment Screen

This will create a file called fnb.txt

Select a folder and click on Save.

Sign-On to FNB Online Banking:

First you need to log on to the following URL: https://www.fnb.co.za. This will take you to the sign-on screen whereby you will fill in your user ID as well as your password.

Steps to import the payment batch:

The home page will now be displayed.

· Click on Payments – Add Payment - Import

The following Import screen will appear:

· Enter the payment details.

· Click on Continue at the bottom of the page.

The following screen will appear:

· Browse for the folder where you saved the FNB txt file.

· Click Continue and send to Online Banking and process the amount

· Submit the payment batch to the person who is responsible for authorising the payment

· Process to Online Banking

· Click on Finish

Conclusion:

This whitepaper will assist you in importing your batches in FNB Business Online Banking quickly and effectively.