A country-specific update that supports SEPA credit transfer for Italy, Finland and generic formats and SEPA direct debit for Italy and generic formats in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 SP1, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 and Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 users already have their method of payment setup in the following location to use the SEPA Direct Debit export format:For more information about how to configure the outbound port, go to the following Microsoft website:

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 and Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 users already have their outbound port configured. For more information about how to configure the outbound port, go to the following Microsoft website:If outbound port was already previously configured for Direct Debit, in that case, it needs to reselect "Export service operations" in Service contract customizations part and then enable all Data Policies.

Mandates

Mandates can be entered and maintained at the customer level. Reports can be generated to be sent to the customer for signing.

A method of payment can be marked to indicate that any transactions that use the method of payment have a valid mandate entered by selecting the Mandate required check box. In addition, any method of payment where the user has selected the Mandate required check box will want to have the Period dropdown field set to Invoice, which creates a separate payment for each invoice. This avoids issues in which customers use different mandates for different banks.

Transactions where a method of payment is not specified will use default method of payment and default mandate from the customer. The sales order and free text invoice let the user specify the mandate to be used.

During the payment proposal, users can select invoices to be paid by Mandate scheme and Payment type by adding the Customer direct debit mandate table to the proposal selection query.

Upon printing of invoices that use the method of payment with the Mandate required check box selected, a section will be printed on the invoice to indicate the specifics of the direct debit.

Creditor Scheme Identification ID (the Direct Debit ID field) has to be registered according to the Creditor Scheme Identification Rule. For more information about the Creditor Scheme Identification Rule, click to view the Creditor Identifier Overview document: The dialog box for the file generation for DD contains the following parameters:

• Format, the format of message: Strd or Ustrd. For Germany is always Unstrd.
• Country, the country.
• Issuer, the issuer of the creditor reference. This parameter is not required. In this case, it is defaulted with BBA for Belgium, CUR for the Netherlands and ISO for other countries. It affects the calculation of the creditor reference.

Additional information

This update also contains the following changes and corrections in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 SP1, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 and Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2:

• For generic and all other country specific formats:
  • Change that enables PaymentTypeInformation (PmtTpInf) to appear in the payment information, instead of with each direct debit transaction (DrctDbtTxInf).
  • Check the currency for all payments lines that is only in EUR.
  • Improvement for amendments functionality. If changes are made to Company name, Company direct debit id, Company Swift, Customer IBAN, or Customer Swift, then they are reflected in the <AmdmntInfDtls> tag in next generated file for this mandate.
• For Germany Credit Transfer country format, add the same condition for Payment Identification as for Belgium country format. If PaymentId is specified it will be filled in the <Ustrd> tag.
• Fix bug when you enter mandate with Usage count > 0 to fill RCUR or FNAL instead of FRST in the <SeqTp> node.
• Add new transformation which enables to generate XML file without byte order mark (BOM).
  In order to set up existing outbound ports to use the new transformation, follow these steps:
  1. Export resource from AOT named VendPayments_SEPATruncateTagsAndBOM_xslt.
  2. Go to System administration/Setup/Services and Application Integration Framework/Outbound ports.
  3. For Outbound ports "SEPACreditTransfer" and "SEPADirectDebit", click Outbound transforms -> Manage transforms.
  4. Click New and specify a name (for example, "TruncateSEPAAndBOM").
  5. Click Load and select the resources that are exported in XSLd in step 1.
  6. Click Close in the Manage transforms form.
  7. Change Transform name to "TruncateSEPAAndBOM" in Outbound transforms form.

Information for label translation

The "The payment usage count on the customer direct debit mandate will decrease if the payment status is changed to Rejected or None. Do you want to proceed?" label has only translation in English. Translations to other languages will take later.

'CUC' and 'Specify the CBI Proprietary Unique Code (CUC) code of the legal entity' have only translation in English. The Translation to Italian will take later.

Hotfix information

A supported hotfix is available from Microsoft. There is a "Hotfix download available" section at the top of this Knowledge Base article. If you are encountering an issue downloading, installing this hotfix, or have other technical support questions, contact your partner or, if enrolled in a support plan directly with Microsoft, you can contact technical support for Microsoft Dynamics and create a new support request. To do this, visit the following Microsoft website:

https://mbs.microsoft.com/support/newstart.aspx

You can also contact technical support for Microsoft Dynamics by phone using these links for country specific phone numbers. To do this, visit one of the following Microsoft websites:

Partners

https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/support/

Customers

https://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/support/information/SupportInformation/global_support_contacts_eng.htm

In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Technical Support Professional for Microsoft Dynamics and related products determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to any additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question.