Bank Communication
Continia OPplus Smart Banking supports both manual and direct communication between banking systems and Business Central. With direct bank communication, you simplify the process of communicating data between Business Central and your bank. Instead of manually having to import and export bank files, the OPplus Smart Banking Direct Communication service uses web services for the automatic exchange of bank data.
Whether direct communication is supported depends on your bank. In the section Bank integration, navigate to your bank to see if it supports direct communication.
Continia uses external service components for the bank integration to manage the exchange of data between the bank and Business Central, ensuring that all data meets the requirements of the banks. For more information, see [Who is konfipay].
Direct communication
Direct communication, sometimes referred to as web service or SFTP, is the preferred communication form as all communication between the bank and Business Central is fully automatic.
The following example illustrates how using direct communication for communicating data between Business Central and the bank can proceed when sending payments to the bank:
- The payment suggestions are created and prepared in the Payment Journal and sent to the bank.
- The payments are received in the bank.
- A payment status with information whether the payment is sent, received, paid, or rejected in the bank is automatically imported to the Payment Journal.
- You correct any errors on the payment lines and then repeat steps 1 and 2.
The process is likewise automatic when importing payment-, status- or statement files from the bank and into Business Central using direct communication.