Collecting Faster Payments Reports

You can usage PayGate Desktop to securely view and download payments input reportsfrom the Faster Payments service.  The reportss can be downloaded in a variety of formats to suit your requirements.

Available Reports

The following list of reports and advices are available through PayGate Desktop

• Input Report
  

Downloading Faster Payments reports

To start downloading reports navigate to:
Reports > Download New FPS Reports

Report Process

PayGate splits the report download process into three steps.  Initailly you log into the Faster Payments service.  You then retrive a list of avaolable reports that meet your search criteria.. Finally you download (or view) a specific report from the list.

  Each step is explained in more detail below

 

1 - Log Into Faster Payments

In PayGate downloading Faster Payments reports is done within a particular PayGate Group.  When you browse to the reports download page you will be asked to select a group in which to download reports for.  This is normally the same group that the original payments were submitted under.

In order for a user to download reports in a particular group, the user must be in the ‘Collect Report’ role for that same group   If you do not have the correct rights to download reports in a particular group, contact the Group Administrator of the group.

Choose a group from the drop-down box and click the button marked ‘BACS Login’.

For security reasons Faster Payments require you to authenticate to the service before you can download any reports.  To authenticate to the service you will need your smartcard from the bank and the PIN.  Follow this link for instructions on authenticating to Faster Payments.

 

2 - Retrieve a List of Available Reports

We will now ask the Faster Payments service to send us a list of available reports

Report Type

Select the type of report from the ‘Report Type’ drop-down box.  Currently the Faster Paymenrs service only supports ' Input Reports'

Report Age

You can either use a specific date that the report was ‘Generated’ on or you can provide a range.  Available ranges and their meanings are

• Current Day – The report was generated today.
• Within Last 2 Days – The report was generated in the last 2 days.
• Within Last 3 Days – The report was generated in the last 3 days.
• Within Last 4 Days – The report was generated in the last 4 days.
• Within Last 5 Days – The report was generated in the last 5 days.

 

Accessed

You can filter the reports list by whether the report has already been access yet.  If a report have already been accessed (Downloaded or viewed) by either yourself or a colleague then setting ‘No’ will stop the report from appearing in the list of available report.

• Yes - Show only reports that have been accessed.
• No  - Showe only reports that have not yet been accessed.
• Both - Show all reports reagrdless of whether they have been accessed.
  

Report Format

The report can be view and downloaded in either XML or CSV (Comma Separated Values). 

 

Click the button marked ‘Get List’ to display a list of reports that match you search criteria.

 

3 - Download a report

You now have a list of available reports.  You can view the reports directly inside PayGate BACS or you can download them as files onto your computer.

To view a report from within PayGate Desktop

• Choose a report that you wish to view.
• Click the link marked ‘Select’ next the report you wish to view.
• The report will be download from BACS and displayed into your browser as a popup window.  If the report does not appear ensure that Popups are allowed for PayGate Desktop.
  

To Download reports to your computer

• Choose the reports that you want to download.  You can choose more than one if required. 
• Flag you chosen report for download by clicking on the box to the left of the report type.

• Click the button marked ‘Download Selected’ A list of hyperlinks will be created underneath the main report list.
• These links can be used to download the reports to your PC.

 

Log out of Faster Payments

After you have finished viewing or downloading reports you should log out of the Faster Payments service. 

Click the button marked ‘Faster Payments - Logoff’  to log out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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