Hi Amanda, basically different bpay providers (banks) have different requirements for the bpay number. So in our case; 1. The bpay number is the customer ID. 2. Added to that is a check digit (a single number) that allows detection of typos when the customer enters the bpay number. The method by which this check digit is generated can vary from bank to bank. 3. When the list of payments is sent to you (usually via an encrypted email) the bpay number is used to find the customer and reconcile the transaction.

Now some people use transaction IDs instead of customer numbers so that they can track to transaction and not just a customer. But currently we can't search by transactions so we used customer IDs first.

Automating this process with OpenVPMS can be done (we have done it) but it takes quite a bit of setting up and some purpose written software.

Matt C

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:06:45 +0000 (UTC), mnave@bigpond.net.au wrote:

> Hi Matt, >   > More information please. I don't what that means. Remember I am a computer

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