Report types

There are several report types available from Bacs. These are divided into two categories: Processing reports and Advices for returns

You will only be able to download reports from Bacs during the time of the Bacstel-IP Service Availability Window, which runs from Monday 07:00 hours to Friday 23:00 hours.

For a full description of all report types that may be downloaded from Bacs, please refer to Appendix G of the Bacs Service User Guide.

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• Processing reports
• Advices for returns

Processing reports contain details relating to data that you have submitted to Bacs, such as whether the data arrived, whether the data has been processed etc. These files provide you with a detailed account of what is happening to the data you submitted, at each stage of its progress through the Bacs system.

The types of the processing reports you may download are as follows:

• Input – produced following the successful validation of a day section of a payment file. It is therefore available on input day of the processing cycle. A separate input report is produced for any Direct Debit instructions contained in a payment file. Any payment instructions that have been amended, rejected or returned by Bacs will be highlighted on the report. You must therefore check each Input report as soon as it is available, and contact your bank if you have any concerns. Once you have read an Input report, the associated submission will be archived automatically after the number of days specified in the File Retention section of the Administrator. A more detailed explanation of Input reports is given below.
• Withdrawal – If you submit a payment file in error, you can contact your bank on or before input day to ask for the payment file to be withdrawn. This will result in the creation of a withdrawal report. When you receive the withdrawal report you should check that the appropriate data was extracted.
• Rejection Arrival – A rejection arrival report is generated when Bacs initial validation rejects a future-dated payment file.

Input reports are sent out for each processing day referred to in the payment instructions. For a submission containing one payment file for a single processing day, one input report would be produced. For a submission containing multiple payment files each having a single processing day, an input report would be created for each processing day.

For example, for a submission containing multiple payment files sent on the 11th of the month, where the payment files have processing dates of the 12th, 13th and 14th, an input report will be produced for each of the three processing dates.

Advices for returns contains details of the actual payments that have been made.

The names of the Advices for returns reports you may download are as follows:

• ARUCS – Automated return of unapplied credits service
• ARUDD - Automated return of unpaid Direct Debits

Both these report types are concerned with payment instructions that cannot be applied by the destination bank/building society. The payment instructions will be returned to the originating account. These reports list the payment instructions that could not be applied and have therefore been returned. These payment instructions should appear in the service user's account on the next valid input/processing day after the date of the report.