Recurring Payments
Batch jobs related to recurring payments by direct debit or debit or credit card payments include:
Recurring Payments
This job can run in CARD (credit or debit cards), BANK (direct debits) or CHEQUE (manual payments refunds) mode. You can run the job without selecting a date, in which case the current date is used.
When running in CARD or BANK mode, this job creates a batch of payments due for accounts that have been configured to pay by either direct debit or recurring credit or debit cards. Also included in the batch are accounts that have approved refunds by credit or debit card due. CMP
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Manual payment (cash or cheque) refunds are processed in CMP by running the Recurring Payments batch job in CHEQUE mode. When running in CHEQUE mode, the job searches for approved refunds for cheque/manual payments accounts. A dedicated daemon A computer program that runs as a background process, rather than being under the control of an interactive user. creates an extract of the cheque refunds to be sent to a third party print bureau for processing. Posting to the Sales Ledger takes place as standard for this job.
When the job completes successfully:
- The following encrypted extract files have been created:
- Depending on the mode, either a list of due card payments and refunds, or a list of direct debit payments and refunds.
- A list of payment and refund transactions to be posted to the ledger system.
- The Posting job is submitted in a Held state. Customer balances are not updated until this job is released.
This job will not run if any incomplete posting jobs are detected.
The following daemons are associated with Recurring Payments:
| Daemon | Description |
|---|---|
| Transformation Recurring Payments From BACS (ARUDD Format) | This daemon is responsible for the conversion of ARUDD (Automated Return of Unpaid Direct Debit) files into the format required by CMP |
The following probes can be run against Recurring Payments:
| Name | Type | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recurring Payments Transmission Complete (Payments Posting) | Alert | Alert probe that returns the number of times the Recurring Payment Posting job has run today. A value of zero indicates the job has not run today and an alert will be sent to the recipients configured for this probe. | ||
| Recurring Payments Extract Completed (Bank) | Alert | Alert probe that returns number of bank files produced by Recurring Payment Extract daemon today. A value of zero indicates that no outbound files were produced and an alert will be sent to the recipients configured for this probe. | ||
| Recurring Payments Extract Completed (Bank) | SLA | SLA probe that returns number of files produced by the Recurring Payment Extract job in Bank Mode today. A value of zero indicates that no outbound files were produced and the SLA has been breached. Because this is an SLA probe, no email alert is issued. | ||
| Recurring Payments Batch Completed (Bank) | Alert | Alert probe that returns number of times the Recurring Payment job was run in Bank Mode today. A value of zero indicates the job has not run today and an alert will be sent to the recipients configured for this probe. | ||
| Recurring Payments Batch Completed (Card) | Alert | Alert probe that returns number of times the Recurring Payment Job was run in Card Mode today. A value of zero indicates the job has not run today and an alert will be sent to the recipients configured for this probe. | ||
| Recurring Payments Extract Completed (Bank) | SLA | SLA probe that returns number of files produced by the Recurring Payment Extract job in Bank Mode today. A value of zero indicates that no outbound files were produced and the SLA has been breached. Because this is an SLA probe, no email alert is issued. | ||
| Recurring Payments Extract Completed (Card) | SLA | SLA probe that returns number of files produced by the Recurring Payment Extract job in Card Mode today. A value of zero indicates that no outbound files were produced and the SLA has been breached. Because this is an SLA probe, no email alert is issued. | ||
| Recurring Payments Extract Completed (Card) | Alert | Alert probe that returns number of card files produced by Recurring Payment Extract daemon today. A value of zero indicates that no outbound files were produced and an alert will be sent to the recipients configured for this probe. | ||
Relevant JSON schemas:
- outbound-acknowledgement.schema
- inbound-acknowledgement.schema
- recurring-bank-outbound.schema
- recurring-card-outbound.schema
- recurring-cheque-outbound schema
- posting-out.schema
Recurring Payments Rejections
When recurring payment and refund transactions are sent to an external payments system, some transactions can fail, for example due to insufficient funds or lost and stolen cards. These rejected transactions must be processed by CMP. When CMP receives files containing rejected transactions, these are automatically detected by a dedicated daemon, which creates a rejected payments batch in CMP for each file received.
This job generates a batch that contains records to reverse each failed transaction from the sales ledger. Once this batch has been created, it is detected by dedicated daemons format the batch and transmit it to the target sales ledger. This job also generates workflows (for example, to send a communication to the customer), processes soft declines to temporarily exclude the account from the automated payments process and processes hard declines to revert the account to the default (manual) payment to make alternative arrangements for collection of amounts due.
When the job completes successfully:
- New response files are detected and batch created in CMP.
- An encrypted extract file is created that contains a list of payment and refund transactions to be reversed in the ledger system.
- The reversal process is invoked to update account balances.
This job is automatically triggered whenever a new rejected payments batch has been created.
The following probes can be run against Recurring Payments Rejections:
| Name | Type | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recurring Payments Rejections Load Completed | Alert | Alert probe that returns the number of files received by the Recurring Payment Rejection daemon today. A value of zero indicates that no inbound files were received today and an alert will be sent to the recipients configured for this probe. | ||
| Recurring Payments Rejections Batch Completed | SLA | SLA probe will returned the number of CMP configuration errors detected today by Recurring Payment Rejections Job today. The SLA is breached if the number of errors is above the defined threshold. These type of errors can be resolved by amending CMP configuration. Because this is an SLA probe, no email alert is issued. | ||
| Recurring Payments Rejections Batch Completed | Alert | Alert probe that returns the number of times the Recurring Payment Rejection job has run today. A value of zero indicates the job has not run today and an alert will be sent to the recipients configured for this probe. | ||
| Recurring Payments Rejections Transmission Complete (Reversals Posting) | Alert | Alert probe that returns the number of times the Posting Reversals job has run today. A value of zero indicates the job has not run today and an alert will be sent to the recipients configured for this probe. | ||
Relevant JSON schemas: