Legacy Format

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Legacy format is an older file format introduced by Barron McCann in our BACSESS range. To help customers migrate to PayGate we are still supporting this format. Legacy format allows you to define the beneficiary bank details but not eh originating details. When a legacy file is imported into PayGate the originating bank details are taken from the group configuration.

PayGate Desktop allows mixed credit and debits and AUDDIS in files.

There are two slightly different legacy formats: one for single payment day files and one for multiday files (with an included date field).

Field Terminator

Legacy uses the semicolon (;) as a field terminator

Line Terminator

Legacy uses teh CRLF characters as a line terminator.

Headers / Footers

legacy does not support headers or footers

Single day Credit, Debit and AUDDIS

Field BACS Payment Item
Description

1 Destination Account Name
1-18 Alpha Numeric Characters

2 User’s Reference
1-18 Alpha Numeric Characters

3 Destination Sort Code
6 Numeric Characters

4 Destination Account Number
8 Numeric Characters

5 Amount
1-9 digits then a decimal point, then 2 digits for pence. For AUDDIS the filed must be 0.00

6 Destination Account Code
1 Numeric character.

7 Transaction Code 2 characters
For Debiting either 01, 17,18 or 19

For AUDDIS either 0N, 0C or 0S. (First character is numeric zero)

For crediting this filed is omitted or 99

Field 7 should be terminated with the new line character(s)

Example

DONNA MCINTOSH;DM0001;111111;22222222;1023.34;0;99
PTHOMAS;PT00002;222222;33333333;2101.30;0;99
MLEE;ML00003;444444;55555555;1765.20;0;99
NICKTAYLOR;NT00004;666666;77777777;900.20;0;99

Multi-day Credit, Debit and AUDDIS

Field BACS Payment Item
Description

1 BACS Processing Date
DDMMYY

Where:

DD = day

MM = Month
YY = Year

2 Destination Account Name
1-18 Alpha Numeric Characters

3 User’s Reference
1-18 Alpha Numeric Characters

4 Destination Sort Code
6 Numeric Characters

5 Destination Account Number
8 Numeric Characters

6 Amount
1-9 digits then a decimal point, then 2 digits for pence. For AUDDIS the filed must be 0.00

7 Destination Account Code
1 Numeric character.

8 Transaction Code 2 characters
For Debiting either 01, 17,18 or 19

For AUDDIS either 0N, 0C or 0S. (First character is numeric zero)

For crediting this filed is omitted or 99

Field 7 should be terminated with the new line character(s)

Example

020114;DONNA MCINTOSH;DM0001;111111;22222222;1023.34;0;99
020114;PTHOMAS;PT00002;222222;33333333;2101.30;0;99
030114;MLEE;ML00003;444444;55555555;1765.20;0;99
040114;NICKTAYLOR;NT00004;666666;77777777;900.20;0;99

Field	BACS Payment Item	Description
1	Destination Account Name	1-18 Alpha Numeric Characters
2	User’s Reference	1-18 Alpha Numeric Characters
3	Destination Sort Code	6 Numeric Characters
4	Destination Account Number	8 Numeric Characters
5	Amount	1-9 digits then a decimal point, then 2 digits for pence. For AUDDIS the filed must be 0.00
6	Destination Account Code	1 Numeric character.
7	Transaction Code	2 characters For Debiting either 01, 17,18 or 19 For AUDDIS either 0N, 0C or 0S. (First character is numeric zero) For crediting this filed is omitted or 99 Field 7 should be terminated with the new line character(s)