ABA bank payment file format

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  1. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Founder Staff Member

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    Technical question - does anyone know where I can find a definition of the file format for .aba files which are used to process bulk-payments to other bank accounts.

    Most online business banking services utilise this file format - and Quickbooks and other software can generate these files - but I need to write my own software to generate them.

    So far Google has been unhelpful :(

    I will contact my bank next week - but I'm not hopeful of finding someone who actually knows what I'm talking about :rolleyes:
     
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    Thanks jabba - that looks like the info I was looking for. Just wanted to see what the files looked like.

    Not sure if that's how I'll do things yet. More research required.
     
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    ABA file


    Hi Sim,

    Please let me know how you did this file using your application. I am trying to create the same file using DotNet. please help.

    Thanks,
    Rejeev.
     
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    Hi rejeev, I haven't got that far with my project yet. It is likely that we won't end up doing direct credit anyway, so I may not implement it at all.
     
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    Hey sorry to dig up an old thread, I found this while trawling through google and thought other readers may be interested. I've built a CSV to ABA file converter which has been deployed to several banks now, you can find out more at www.bluechillitechnology.com/aba . There's also full documentation on the format and guides to follow should you wish to write your own program. Best of luck!
     
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    Can’t you just save it as tab delimited csv?
     
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    ABA Files need to comply with the specifications issued by the Australian Bankers Association.
    Including descriptive record, detail record, file total record, type of record. The ABA format is a A tab-delimited text file. i.e. units of text are separated by a tab character. These tab characters organize the text into tabular data. While CSV uses comma-separated values.
     
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