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
- Ensure your smartcard is in the reader.
- Login to PTX as a user who has the Submit role.
- 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.
- Click View next to the approved batch.
- Check the details of the file.
- Click Send.
- Click Continue to sign the file – you will be prompted for your smartcard PIN or Password.
- Click Continue to connect to PaymentServices.Bacs.co.uk – you will be prompted for your PIN or Password again.
- If the payment profile is not set to confirm automatically, you will be prompted to confirm manually.
- The submission will then complete.
- 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
- Login to PTX as a user who has the Submit role.
- 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.
- Click View next to the approved batch.
- Check the details of the file.
- Click Send.
- Click Continue to sign the file – you will be prompted for your PTX Login password*.
- Click Continue to connect to PaymentServices.Bacs.co.uk – you will be prompted for your PTX Login password* again.
- The submission will then complete.
- 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
- Login to PTX as a user who has the Commit role.
- 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.
- Click View next to the approved batch.
- Check the details of the file.
- Click Commit.
- The file’s status then shows as Committed until the hour (e.g. 1400, 1500 or 1600 etc.) at which point it becomes locked.
- Within 15 minutes the status will change from Committed to Sent.
- Click View, next to the sent item, and click on the Report tab to view and print the Bacstel-IP Submission Summary report.