Billing And Collection 2.3.0

May 6th, 2022

Billing and Collection v2.3.0 is compatible with FintechOS Platform v22.1. In addition, it has a number of new features and improvements which you can read about below.

What's New

UK Direct Debit Processing

The direct debit processing for UK financial area just got better, with the shipping of the following features:

• new Pending status and status transitions;

• importing ADDACS files;

• importing AUDDIS files;

• manual cancellation of a mandate;

• automatic invoice cancellation - when a UK direct debit mandate is cancelled, all its related invoices are cancelled as well;

• reason code validation for ADDACS file import.

For more details, see the Direct Debit UK page - for business details, and the UK Direct Debit page - for technical details.

Improved Outgoing Payment Request API and Form

This functionality allows you to add outgoing payments in the system, through an API call. A new optional API key was introduced - defaultBusinessStatus, to help you indicate the status of the outgoing payment request, if needed. The available default business statuses are Proposed or Approved.

When the value for this optional key is not sent, the payment requests is registered in Draft status. However, if you use the defaultBusinessStatus key, you must also fill in the value for the scheduledDate key, otherwise the system will throw an error. See more details in the Generate Outgoing Payments API page.

When calling the API, it is not necessary anymore to send the payer's details, since they can be auto-filled by the system. For this you have to configure a default Payer Name and IBAN, set in the processor FTOS_PYMT_OutgoingPayments_PayerDetails.

The Outgoing Payment Request Form was adjusted to reflect these changes, also.

Other Technical Improvements

• updates on payments and unallocated payments views;

• manually add a direct debit mandate - for both UK and SEPA flows;

• manually update a direct debit mandate - for both UK and SEPA flows;

• validation on a direct debit mandate canceling process - for both UK and SEPA flows;

• improvements for Notifications - Date/Time format, listing of multiple policies included in the same invoice;

• updates on security roles;

• section label Direct Debit Mandates form renamed from Direct Debit Mandates Activated to Direct Debit Mandates.

For more details, see the Billing and Collection v2.3.0 documentation.