Generate Positive Pay or ACH output in a Specified Directory

Apr 21, 2014

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in Oracle Apps, Oracle Apps Technical, Oracle Payables

Let us look at how we can generate the Positive Pay File / ACH Output in a particular directory on your server.

As always, this will be mostly screenshots so that it makes it easier for you to understand.

Navigate to Payables Manager > Setup > Payment > Payment Administrator

Click on the Payment Process Profiles Link. Check the below screenshot.

Query for your Payment Process Profile. In this blog, I have used US NACHA Generic Payment Process Profile. This is a standard payment process profile.

Click on the Payment Process Profile and then navigate to “Payment Instruction Format” Tab. Here you will see the details that can be given for Payment File Information.
The payment file is the ACH Output.

Outbound Payment File Prefix – If you want the ACH Output file to start with a particular name, this is the field that you should be using.

Outbound Payment File Extension – You can a file extension for the ACH Output file. For eg. “.txt”. However make sure that you dont include “.” in the field. The process while generating will take care of that.

Outbound Payment File Directory – You can specify the directory on the server where you want the ACH file to be generated.

Once you have entered all the details as show above, save the changes and then move to “Reporting” Tab. This is where you will be able to provide the details for the Positive Pay File generation.

See the below screenshot for the details. The details are self explanatory and similar to ACH File Generation.

Hope this helps!! Please provide your comments or ask any questions that you may have and I will try to answer them.!!

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Comments

10 responses to “Generate Positive Pay or ACH output in a Specified Directory”

rachidelmaazouz

December 18, 2014

Hi, thank you for your post, I applied what in the above, but had no file generated in the outbound payment file directory that I specified in the setup parameters

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1. ArunRaj
  
  January 2, 2015
  
  Sorry for the late reply. I was on vacation for a month.
  
  Make sure you have given the actual unix directory path where you want the file to be generated. In my post, I have used “/data/interfaces/out”. This may not be the case in your instance.
  So make sure to use the complete directory path where the file needs to be generated. Let me know if you have questions.
  
  Thanks,
  Raj
  
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  1. RK
    
    July 15, 2015
    
    I have followed your instructions to find file path but i could not able to even fields in that screen….Is it a profile option problem?
    
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    1. ArunRaj
      
      July 15, 2015
      
      Hi RK,
      
      Will you be able to send me a screenshot to arunraj@quest4apps.com?
      
      Thanks,
      Arun
      
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November 2, 2015

I am extremely impressed with your writing skills and also with the layout on your blog
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1. ArunRaj
  
  November 2, 2015
  
  Thank you for the feedback and kind words.
  
  Arun
  
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sremias

May 23, 2016

Beautifully written article and specific enough for me to understand (so many are not!) However, I’m thinking this is only half of the configuration. Isn’t there something that needs configured on the supplier side. For example, we will not do ACH for all suppliers but just a select few. By chance, do you have a post outlining the steps to do that?

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1. ArunRaj
  
  May 24, 2016
  
  Hi,
  
  There are definitely setups that need to be done at Supplier record in EBS. Few things are to setup the payment types and obviously the supplier bank account information that is need to process ACH. I will check if I have a document on the same.
  
  Thanks for the compliments. I appreciate it.
  
  Regards,
  Arun
  
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Aarthi

March 28, 2020

Hi Arunraj,

Can you please let me know if positive pay is triggered for electronic processing type? I tried similar setup as shown by you, but positive pay didnot get triggered.

Best Regards,
Aarthi

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1. Arun Raj
  
  April 4, 2020
  
  Is it ERP cloud or on-premise?
  
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