How to submit to Bacs - Direct smartcard and CSM and Indirect

All below examples will assume a successfully uploaded and approved batch is available in PTX.

Direct submissions using Smartcard

1. Ensure your smartcard is in the reader.
2. Login to PTX as a user who has the Submit role.
3. Filter the view on the All Payments screen to look for Approved batches, or simply look for the approved batch that you wish to submit.
4. Click View next to the approved batch.
5. Check the details of the file.
6. Click Send.
7. Click Continue to sign the file – you will be prompted for your smartcard PIN or Password.
8. Click Continue to connect to PaymentServices.Bacs.co.uk – you will be prompted for your PIN or Password again.
9. If the payment profile is not set to confirm automatically, you will be prompted to confirm manually.
10. The submission will then complete.
11. You are automatically taken back to the batch summary screen and the (newly created) Report Tab – from here you can view and print the Bacstel-IP Submission Summary report.

Direct submission using CSM

1. Login to PTX as a user who has the Submit role.
2. Filter the view on the All Payments screen to look for Approved batches, or simply look for the approved batch that you wish to submit.
3. Click View next to the approved batch.
4. Check the details of the file.
5. Click Send.
6. Click Continue to sign the file – you will be prompted for your PTX Login password*.
7. Click Continue to connect to PaymentServices.Bacs.co.uk – you will be prompted for your PTX Login password* again.
8. The submission will then complete.
9. You are automatically taken back to the batch summary screen and the (newly created) Report Tab – from here you can view and print the Bacstel-IP Submission Summary report.

* For MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) customers, you will be prompted for the code from either the MFA token device or smartphone app.

Note: Steps 6 and 7 would be removed if the the payment profile is set to confirm automatically.

Indirect submissions

1. Login to PTX as a user who has the Commit role.
2. Filter the view on the All Payments screen to look for Approved batches, or simply look for the approved batch that you wish to submit.
3. Click View next to the approved batch.
4. Check the details of the file.
5. Click Commit.
6. The file’s status then shows as Committed until the hour (e.g. 1400, 1500 or 1600 etc.) at which point it becomes locked.
7. Within 15 minutes the status will change from Committed to Sent.
8. Click View, next to the sent item, and click on the Report tab to view and print the Bacstel-IP Submission Summary report.