Fixed Payment File Format:

If “Fixed File Format” is selected in section 1 of the Payment File Definition page, then section 2 of the Fixed Payment File Definition will appear as in the screen shot below

The Fixed File Payment File format consists of three sections:  header, payment detail and invoice detail which will therefore be reflected in the Fixed File Format Definition. 

•  Header: The data that is common and repeated across all of the Payment Beneficiaries - debit account number, payment method, confidential indicator, currency, file reference, execution date and individual accounting entries indicator appear only one time in a file header. Each field has a status of mandatory (M) or optional (O) or Not Applicable (N/A).  If the status is O or N/A, a space is inserted for each expected character in the segment.  All header fields are left justified and filled with spaces.  The characters “HDR” prefix the header section.  The presence of HDR at the beginning of the file being uploaded indicates to the file upload process that this is the beginning of the file header section. There will only be one occurrence of “HDR” in each file.

• Payment Detail:  Each Beneficiary’s specific payment details will be prefixed with the characters “PAY”.  Each time the “PAY” indicator is encountered; this will signify that details for a new beneficiary are beginning. 
• Invoice Detail:  Each Beneficiary may also have up to 100 lines of 80 characters of ‘Invoice Details” in addition to the Payment Details fields. Each line of Invoice Details will be prefixed with the “INV” indicator.