EISCD Updates

This section of the Administrator allows you to configure aspects relating to the management of EISCD (Electronic Industry Sort Code Database) files, which are used to validate account numbers and sort codes supplied in your payment files before being sent to the Bacs service.



State

Current state

This indicates the current state of the automatic EISCD updater. Possible states include:

Last update

This indicates the last time that new EISCD was downloaded and applied to SmarterPay.

Automatic updates

This is enabled by default - SmarterPay will automatically check for new EISCD data on a daily basis at midnight.

Available EISCD data

Delete

This option will remove the currently selected data from your SmarterPay installation.

Activate

Allows you to manually specify which EISCD data file you'd like to use; by default SmarterPay will use the most recently downloaded data. This option should only ever be used if you find that you're having difficulties with the most recent EISCD data file.

Refresh

Refreshes the current list of available EISCD data.

Check for updates

This will force a manual check for updates to your current EISCD data.