Managing payments in Continia Banking
Continia Banking extends the payment capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central by adding validation, automation, and bank connectivity. You can create payment suggestions, work with extended payment journals, manage payment statuses, and send remittance information to recipients. This section gives you an overview of the key tasks and concepts involved in managing payments with Continia Banking.
To choose the right suggestion mode
Start by understanding the difference between the standard and advanced payment suggestion modes. The Advanced Payment Suggestion Mode offers additional control and flexibility over how payment proposals are generated, helping you manage complex payment scenarios more effectively.
- Learn about the Advanced Payment Suggestion Mode - this article lists the key features of the advanced mode and explains differences between standard and advanced payment suggestion mode.
To create and process payments
Learn how to generate and process payments:
Suggesting and processing payments - learn how to create payment suggestions (automatically), to send/export/post payments, and to view payment details.
Working with the payment suggestion page - if you have Advanced payment suggestion mode enabled, you work from the Payment Suggestions page, where you can view, adjust, and manage payment proposals, including direct debits. This custom view allows for detailed review before manually transferring suggestions to the standard Payment Journal for final processing.
Updating and resetting the payment status - learn how to reset the status of a payment line that has been sent or exported if you need to modify the payment details or re-send/re-export the payment.
The payment statuses - this reference topic lists all the payment statuses in payment journals and explains how to interpret them.
Applying balance account to payment lines - learn how to update the balance account in the payment journal.
Summarizing payments - learn how to enable summarization on the vendor, customer, or employee card and how to set up summarization on the payment journal.
Reimbursing customers and paying credit memos - this article explains how to cancel all or part of an invoice.
Splitting payment suggestions across multiple bank accounts - learn more about the Payment Distribution feature that helps by allowing payments to be divided across multiple accounts based on available balances.
Managing employee payments - explains how the Payment Method Code on the Employee Card and payment journal determines whether a payment is posted only in Business Central or exported to the bank.
To manage remittance information
Keep your vendors and recipients informed by handling email remittance notices effectively. Learn how to:
- Managing remittance information - this overview article is in a section that contains articles explaining how to view, rebuild, and manage remittance information, including templates, advice setups, and the outbox
To handle setups and methods
Before payments can be sent, ensure recipients and payment methods are set up correctly. This includes defining bank accounts, payment methods, and other necessary information for each recipient.
- Setting up recipient information - learn about the payment methods supported by Continia Banking
- The Continia Banking fields on the customer, vendor, and employee cards - learn more about the Continia Banking fields on the cards and the available actions. For example, for more precise payment processing on the customer card select Related > Customer > Payment Balance Account Setup.
- Adding an alternative account holder - learn how to direct payments meant for a vendor or customer to a different party.
- Working with intermediary banks - learn how to enter intermediary bank details to make sure payments are properly routed through intermediary banks when the primary bank cannot transfer funds directly.
- Editing dimensions on payments - in Business Central, you can edit dimensions directly on the payment journal line. In Advanced Mode within Continia Banking, you have the flexibility to edit dimensions on payments, regardless of whether the payment was created manually or through the payment suggestion feature.
- Working with the Payment Information Setup - describes how to configure multiple setups for one account and payment method when different export or remittance requirements are needed.
To review payment statuses and updates
This article helps you monitor how payments are processed at the bank.
- The Payment Statuses page - explains how to review status updates from the bank, locate payments that do not appear in other pages, and diagnose missing or incomplete statuses.