Receiving Payments

To allow you to quickly reconcile your company accounts you can receive a file of Business Current Account transactions. The file can include data for one account or many accounts – whichever best suits you. You can receive details of all transaction types or you can select specific types only, e.g. cheques only, all credits, all debits or all transactions.

Account balance information can also be provided such as opening and closing cleared and ledger positions. Transactions are reported in detail including a range of transaction codes, full originator details and payment reference information. A number of frequency options are available to match your accounting periods – daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly or quarterly. Files are available for download at 01:00 on the morning after the last transactions are applied to the account.

This is a daily file containing Bank Giro Credit and BACS credit transaction data received for your agency sort code(s).The inward credit clearing and BACS receipts are merged at NatWest to provide you with a single file each day for all of your agency credit in-clearing. The detailed information contained in the file includes remitter and reference details, and Bank Giro Credit code line information. This file is available by 17:00 daily.

With this option, you will receive separate files for BACS, Faster Payments and Clearing output, in order to benefit from the early availability of payment information. 

The files provided with this option are:

• A daily BACS output file, containing details of inward Bacs transactions. Direct credits and/or direct debits will be included, depending on the services used by the Agency. This will be available by 10:00 on day 2 of the BACS cycle.
• A daily Faster Payment file is available in ISO8583 format or in the same APACS format as your other clearing files. This file is provided at 19:30 and you can opt to receive additional files at 08:00, 13:00, 16:30 and 23:00.
• A daily Credit Clearing output file, containing details of inward Bank Giro Credit transactions. This file will be available by 17:00 on day 2 of the clearing cycle.
• A daily Debit Clearing output file, containing details of inward cheque clearing transactions. This file will be available by 17:00 on day 2 of the clearing cycle.

SWIFT MT940 statement files can be provided on your sterling and currency accounts held with the Bank. The statement files provide detailed balance and transaction information in SWIFT format for importing into your financial accounting systems. A separate SWIFT MT940 statement file is provided for each account. Statement files are available daily by 09:00.