Onboarding ABN AMRO to use Direct Communication

• 08/08/2022
• 5 minutes to read

This article describes the steps in setting up direct communication with ABN AMRO. It details how to prepare the connection and how to run the setup.

To prepare to connect to ABN AMRO

To establish direct communication between Payment Management and ABN AMRO, you must set up the banking API agreement and obtain a TLS certificate.

To set up the banking API agreement

To establish direct communication between Payment Management and ABN AMRO, you must set up a banking API agreement on the following services:

• Business Account Payment API
• Business Account Insight API

When the agreement is established, you will receive the following information from ABN Amro:

• The Client ID
• The API key

To obtain a TLS certificate

To connect to ABN AMRO using direct communication, you require a Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate accepted by ABN AMRO Bank. TLS certificates secure internet connections by encrypting data sent between your browser, the website you’re visiting, and the website server to ensure that data is transmitted privately without modifications, loss, or theft. Upon purchasing the certificate, you will receive a private key, which is essential for the onboarding process.

The TLS certificate requirements:

• A TLS certificate of the type Organisation Validation (OV) or Extended Validation (EV) issued by one of the following trusted Certificate Authorities. Currently, ABN AMRO recommends the following authorities, although please note that they are subject to change:

  • Digicert
  • Quo Vadis
  • Sectigo
  • Entrust

  Note

  For more information, on developer.abnamro.com, go to: API Products > Business Account Payments Overview > Requirements

• No wildcard or character.

• The organization name on the certificate must be the same as the name of the API contract holder.

• The certificate format must be .crt

Once you have acquired the certificate, you should have the following information available for the onboarding process:

In the Payment Management assisted bank setup, you must upload the certificate and the private key and enter the Certificate Password, Client ID, and API Key. Once the setup is completed, the connection to the bank will be successfully established.

To set up direct communication with ABN AMRO

To integrate with ABN AMRO directly, go through the steps of the assisted Assisted Setup guide Set up Bank Account in Payment Management.

To set up direct communication with ABN AMRO:

1. In Business Central, select the icon , enter Bank Account Setup, and select the related link.
2. Select Next to start the assisted setup.
3. On the Bank System field, select ABN AMRO and select OK.
4. Select Next to continue.
5. Upload the Certificate and the Private key and enter the Certificate Password, Client ID, and API Key. Once the setup is completed, the connection to the bank will be successfully established.
6. Select Next. Now, you can make payments and download account statements.

To download account statements

The bank account reconciliation using ABN AMRO uses standard Payment Management reconciliation functionality. For instructions on how to set up the bank accounts reconciliation, refer to the Setting up Statement Intelligence article.

Reconciling bank accounts with Statement Intelligence makes it possible to import bank statements from ABN AMRO directly into the bank accounts reconciliation and automatically match statement lines with posted Bank Account Ledger Entries. For more information, refer to the Reconciling Bank Accounts overview.