How to complete Indirect Submitter testing

Before you send a test in PT-X you need to ensure that your indirect SUN is linked to the Bottomline Bureau Number B40000 and B40000 is enabled to download your Bacs reports. You will need to speak to your Sponsoring Bank  and ask them to give Bottomline Technologies permissions to download Bacs reports on your behalf.  

Completing testing for Payments (Direct Credit) only Indirect Service User Numbers

1. Login to PT-X as a user who has the commit privilege (as a default all users have this as part of the FullPerm role).
2. Your payment profile that is linked to the Indirect SUN you are testing needs to be set to Full Test.
3. You will need to upload to PT-X an example Credits File that contains at least 3 instructions.
4. The 3 instructions must all use real sort codes and account numbers.
5. The 3 instructions must be paying at least 0.01p each (PT-X won’t accept a file without this anyway).
6. The batch needs to be Approved (it doesn’t matter who does this).
7. Filter the view on the All payments screen to look for Approved batches.
8. Click on the blue Approved bar or simply look for the Approved batch that you wish to submit.
9. Click View next to the approved batch.
10. Check the details of the file.
11. Click Commit.
12. The file’s status then shows as Committed until the hour (e.g. 1400, 1500, or 1600 etc.) at which point it becomes locked.
13. Within 15 minutes the status will change from Committed to Sent.
14. Click View, next to the sent item, and click on the Report tab to view and print the Bacstel-IP Submission Summary report.
15. Once you have completed the above steps, and the file has been submitted successfully, you can then request your payment profile in PT-X is set Live by contacting your Project Co-ordinator.

Completing testing for Direct Debits only Indirect Service User Numbers

1. Login to PT-X as a user who has the commit privilege (as a default all users have this as part of the FullPerm role).
2. Your payment profile that is linked to the SUN you are testing needs to be set to Full Test.
3. You will need to upload to PT-X an example Direct Debit File that contains at least 12 instructions.
4. The 12 instructions must all use real sort codes and account numbers.
5. You must use all 4 Direct Debit Transaction codes 3 times. The codes are 01, 17, 18 and 19.
6. The 12 instructions must be collecting at least 0.01p each (PT-X won’t accept a file without this anyway).
7. Once uploaded, ensure that any Direct Debit references extracted from the file in PTX are in exactly the correct format.
   • Cross reference these with your accounting software, or bacs messages from previous payment solution if applicable.
   • If they are not, or if you are unsure about this, please speak to your Project Lead to rectify this.
8. The batch needs to be Approved (it doesn’t matter who does this).
9. Filter the view on the All payments screen to look for Approved batches.
10. Click on the blue Approved bar or simply look for the Approved batch that you wish to submit.
11. Click View next to the approved batch.
12. Check the details of the file if necessary.
13. Click Commit.
14. The file’s status then shows as Committed until the hour (e.g. 1400, 1500, or 1600 etc.) at which point it becomes locked.
15. Within 15 minutes the status will change from Committed to Sent.
16. Click View, next to the sent item, and click on the Report tab to view and print the Bacstel-IP Submission Summary report.
17. Once you have completed the above steps and the file has been submitted successfully, you can then request your payment profile in PT-X is set Live by contacting your Project Co-ordinator.