Settings Window - Company > Payment Processing > EFT Direct

Sage 50 Accounting EFT Direct lets you quickly and easily transfer data from your accounting files to your financial institution. You can perform employee direct deposits and vendor payments as well as customer pre-authorized debits. This simple but powerful program makes it easy to use electronic banking to make payments to vendors,1 In Canada, this is referred to as EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer) or AFT (Automated Funds Transfer). receive payments from customers, and pay employees.

Field Usage
Bank Name Select the bank where you will be uploading files.
Name This corresponds to the name of your Sage 50 Accounting company; however, if you import the EFT Direct information, Name will reflect the name of the imported EFT Direct information.
Company Abbreviation Enter an abbreviation for the company.
Originator No. Enter the 10-digit number your bank gave you to use for transactions involving electronic funds transfers. They may call it a client, customer, ID, or user number.
Institution No. for Returns Enter the institution number your bank gave you. For Canadian banks, the number has three segments, in the format 0-001-12345.
Account No. for Returns If funds cannot be transferred (for example, because an employee has closed an account), the funds will be returned to the account you specify here.
Data Centre No.

(Optional) If you need this number, your bank will issue it. Contact your banking institution to determine the information required for this field.

Reserved Fields for Organization (Optional) Some banks use this field to record employer and employee payroll records. Contact your banking institution to determine the information required for this field.
Element Identification At this time, the Caisse Desjardins is the only bank that requires this field (up to 11 characters). For the Alberta Treasury Branch, this field must be zerofilled.
Settlement Code This field is used only by the Caisse Populaire Desjardins banking system at this time.
File Record (Optional) Contact your banking institution to determine the information required for this field.

Select the task you want help with in this window:

Upload payment file to the payment processing service provider

Process a paycheque

Process several paycheques at once

Email a direct deposit stub to an employee

Print an employee direct deposit stub