Bankline Payment

Bankline Payment

Introduction

Please read Bank Payments before you download a test or live file from Aqilla.

Sample File

BanklinePaymentsFormat20190822.csv - this .csv file was produced from an Aqilla instance.

The file looks like this:

https://www.aqilla.com/help/Storage/main-help-18-06-2024/Articles/Bankline.png

Bank Documentation

See: https://www.business.natwest.com/business/bankline/support-guides.html

The most useful documentation WRT importing payment data is the Bankline import file layout guide - CSV (.pdf Dec 2017) - in particular section 4.2 which is summarised on the right.


Refer to section 3 of Bankline import file layout guide - CSV (.pdf Dec 2017) for technical details of each field.

Comments

Free format fields are limited to the following character set -and "space".

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 . - / &

Refer to section 2.3 of Bankline import file layout guide - CSV (.pdf Dec 2017) for technical details of character sets.

Column

NatWest Ref

Use

D

T001

Transaction type: 01 = standard domestic payment

M

T010

Payee sort code & payee account code - concatenated so beware of opening in MS Excel

Q

T014

Payment amount

S

T016

Payment date

Y

T022

Payer sort code

AE

T028

Payer account code

AG

T030

Payee name

AK

T034

Payer reference