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:
- Idle - The updater is not currently performing any updates/checks for updates.
- Updating - Updates to the EISCD data are currently being applied to SmarterPay.
- Downloading - New data is currently being downloaded.
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.