How Acknowledgements are Generated
The process for acknowledging ACH entries received by the Sterling B2B Integrator is as follows:
- The ACH Deenvelope Service receives a CCD or CTX
entry with AK in its discretionary data. Note: The envelope settings can override the behavior so that acknowledgements (ACKs) are never generated, or are always generated, regardless of the discretionary data.
- The Deenvelope service will automatically generate
the ACK data, and encode it for enveloping with the acceptor lookup
alias ACH_ACK (specific to CCD) or ACH_ATX (specific to CTX) depending
on the type of acknowledgement being generated.
Set up your outbound envelopes. The File Level envelope is set up as normal; however, for the Batch-Entry Detail Level envelope you must select Acknowledgement Entries as the ACH Message Category. For this envelope, the ODFI is the originator of the acknowledgement (the DFI that received the original data). The RDFI is the DFI where the acknowledgement is being sent.
- Execute the EDIEnvelope service in deferred mode. This will pick up the ACK data and generate the outbound file.
About Addenda Records
An addenda record is an ACH record type that carries the supplemental data needed to completely identify an account holder or provide information concerning a payment to the Receiving Depository Financial Institution and the Receiver.
Additional information about addenda records used in the Sterling B2B Integrator:
- The 80-character payment related information portion of the addenda record is generated by the user map as specified.
- For the non_EDI message category, the ACK map will receive the XML document for that entry (including the file header fields, batch header fields, entry fields, and addenda record information). That is, you will receive the same type of output as described by ACH_Output.ddf, but with only one entry detail tag.