For NACHA formatted ACH transactions, there are several record types. Typically referenced by the starting digit of the record. The 1 & 9 records are the start and end of the ACH transaction; however, there can be multiple groups. A group starts with a 5 and ends with an 8.
The typical group is a CCD or a payment to a corporation. A PPD is for personal payments, most often payroll. We currently do not use Epicor for payroll and our previous bank simply used CCD for expense reimbursement.
Our new bank would like us to use PPD for expense reimbursement. First of several questions - Does anyone know why they are requesting PPD for expense reimbursement? We asked our contact at the bank, she didn’t know.
The choice of CCD is pulled from the ACH tab in ‘Supplier Maintenance’. There is literally only one drop down on the tab, labeled ‘Entry Class Code’. It only has three choices ( CCD, CTX & WEB ). There are actually many more codes for ACH groups, several include ( PPD, PPP, ITX and others ).
Second question - why does Epicor only list 3? If we had Epicor Payroll, would PPD then be available? Does the NACHA ACH generation actually group many transactions into their appropriate group when generating the file? Or does the user have to know who gets CCD vs. a different group and generate multiple ACH files?
I fired up the form customization to see if the list was static and it is not. It’s being populated from somewhere, but it isn’t obvious where the list comes from. We haven’t found a form where we can add/subtract from available choice in ‘Entry Class Code’. It does refer to a table called VendorDetail that does not exist in the database.
I put in a ticket with Epicor and they responded with Profession Services to add additional items to the list. I’d like to know the ACH will be generate properly before paying someone to simply populate a combo box.
Thanks in advance