iConnect Quick Start Guide
Table Of Contents
1. Logging in to iConnect
Open Internet Explorer and browse to: https://iconnect.aptbacs.co.uk/
Enter in your Email Address and Password to Login.
1.1 Forgot Password
If you have forgotten your password, click on the forgot password button.
Enter your email address, and a reset password link will be sent to your email address.
Below is the ‘Home’ screen, once you have logged in, you can click the drop down menu and Select a Profile
2. Creating and signing a new submission
From the home screen, select the relevant profile you would like to create a submission for.
Browse to Submissions> New Submissions
Click on Create
Click the Browse Button and Select a file by double clicking on the file
Click on Attach Payments
Enter the total Items and Value the file contains (if required)
Click Continue
Enter Processing Date (if required)
Click on Accept Processing Date
Accept the Invalid Records (If Required)
iConnect has a built in Modulus check so where needed, this page will display any sort codes and/or account numbers that may be potentially invalid. This could be due to miss typing, or it could just be a brand new account which is not included on the Industry Sort Code Directory at time of submission. You can either ‘Continue with Invalid Records’ which will add the file to the submission, or you can skip file, which will delete the file from the submission. You can also click on the ‘Download Report’ button, which will download a report of all of the listed invalid records.
Click ‘Save’ to add the file to the submission.
(Please Note:) In order to cancel or reset a submission, you MUST click on the ‘Cancel’ button, or the ‘Red Cross’ button - thus giving you the ability to add the same file in again.
The submission is now saved, but not yet signed.
Click Pre-Submission Listing to view a listing of the submission, to ensure all the details are correct. Any new records that were previously flagged by the integrity checker will be displayed in RED font. Any amended records will be displayed in RED ITALICS. Any accounts that failed the modulus check, will be in BLACK BOLD font.
Or click Sign Submission to continue with the submission process.
Once the Sign Submission button has been clicked the Display shows the total Credits, Debits and DDI’s in a summary view for you to double check
Tick that you have checked the total and that they agree. Click ‘Sign BACS File’
You will now get the Gemalto prompt, ready for you to Sign, by entering your Smartcard Pin Number.
Enter your Smartcard Pin number and Click the OK button
You will then see the following message
The Submission has now been successfully Signed – Ready to send to BACS.
3. Sending your submission to BACS
You can now send the submission to BACS, in order to do so - Click ‘Send to BACS’
You will then get the following Warning message:
If you are happy to proceed – Click Yes to continue
You will then get the following Sign Prompt – Click the ‘Sign’ button
Enter the ‘Pin Number’ for the Smartcard and Click OK
This will now start to send your submission to BACS.
The submission will then Send, then log you off and it take you back to the front screen of the software.
The Bacstel-IP Submission Summary Report then opens up in a new window.
This is confirmation, that your BACS file has been sent to BACS Successfully.