Create Bank Account

Provided you have permission to create a new bank account, clicking the "Admin - Create Bank Accounts" menu option
displays the page shown below.

NB. No keycodes are required to create new bank accounts.

Account Details

Bank Account Name
This is the name which appears in the "Select a Bank Account" dropdown and must be unique in your list of bank accounts.
An error will be shown if you try to save a bank account with the same "Bank Account Name" as one of your other bank accounts.

When used to make BACS submissions, the first 18 characters will be used to populate the originating bank account name field in the Standard18 data.
NB. This only applies when importing "Legacy" files or importing a file via a custom mapping.

Account Type
This should be "UK Domestic" if the bank account is linked to a group making BACS payments.
The other options are "IBAN" and "Non UK Domestic" although these aren't currently used in PayGate.

Sort Code and Account Number
These are the sort code and account number for the bank account.
This is obvious but is mentioned here because these labels will read differently if the "Account Type" isn't "UK Domestic".

For "IBAN" these labels will show "BIC" and "IBAN"; for "Non UK Domestic" they will show "Bank Identifier" and "Account Number".

Validate Account

After you have entered a sort code and account number the bank details are automatically validated in the background.  The screen below shows the result of entering a valid sort code and account number.  You can still use this bank account even if a validation error message is shown.  This allows PayGate to be used with sort code and account number combinations which are outside the standard validation process.

Currency
For BACS payments this should always be "GBP".

Intermediate Bank ID
This can be used for non BACS payments.

Bank Name and Address
Clicking the "Bank Name and Address" tab will show the screen below.

Bank Name, Bank Address, Post Code and Country
These are optional fields and have no impact on the creation of submission files.