Setting up Bank Holidays

• 17/02/2021
• 4 minutes to read

Payment Management includes a bank holidays setup that defines how to handle purchases and payments that fall on a bank holiday or weekend. Payment Management will automatically update the dates for the listed bank holidays if the due date or cash discount date falls on a bank holiday. The default list includes bank holidays for the following countries: DK, NO, SE, FI, DE, and UK. You can add or delete bank holidays.

To set up bank holidays

Bank holidays are automatically imported to Business Central when setting up the solution. You can change the default setup and decide how to handle bank holidays on purchase and payment fields.

To manually change the bank holiday setup:

1. Use the icon and search for Bank Holiday Setup, then select the related link. This will open a list of all available bank holidays. You can filter the list by Country Code and Date.

2. On the Setup FastTab, you can choose how Payment Management must handle bank holidays on purchase documents and payment journals in the Handle Bank Holidays on Purchase field and in the Handle Bank Holidays on Payments field. There are four options:

   Option	Consequence if cash discount date or due date falls on a bank holiday
   Field left empty	The date remains unchanged.
   After	The date is shifted forward to the next available weekday.
   Before	The date is adjusted to the previous available weekday.
   Ask User	A dialog prompts the user to select how bank holidays should be handled for the specific payment. This option is only applicable for managing payments on purchase documents.

To add or delete a bank holiday

To add or delete a bank holiday:

1. On the Bank Holiday Setup page, navigate to the Bank Holidays FastTab and select Manage.
2. Select New Line to add a bank holiday or select Delete line to remove a bank holiday from the list. For new lines, you must enter; the Country Code, the date, a description, and the day of the week. The Country Code determines a bank holiday for a specific country. The code is used on the balance account used for the payment.

To update bank holidays

When setting up the solution, bank holidays are automatically imported to Business Central. Occasionally, Continia updates the list of bank holidays, for example, to extend the list with more years or to delete years from the list. You can import Continia's updates to the list from Continia Online.

To update bank holidays:

1. Use the icon and search for Bank Holiday Setup, then select the related link.
2. In the page header, select Update Bank Holidays. This will update the list of bank holidays to the latest bank holiday list available on Continia Online.