Positive Pay file generation

When trying to generate the positive pay file - we experience the following error - file return error - no checks selected. There are checks generated and printed.

  • We are still implementing, but I saw that message because I had not set up a bank definition for the specific banks (we have many).  It worked on the test bank definition because it was set up for it, but it wasn't set up for our actual bank accounts.  Once I did that, it seemed to work.

    I also noted that there were more than a couple steps involved and I think at one point I actually posted the checks before I printed them (it let me do that) and that didn't work either.

    Don't know if this will help, but I thought I would try.

    Cindy

  • We had our X3 consulting firm do it for us.  There were many rounds of back and forth between them and our bank (Chase) to get it to work correctly.

  • Hi Ann,

    You can get the "no checks selected" if you have already generated the Positive Pay file in your previous testing. If you look at the CHQNUM table, check if there is information in the fields POSPAYCREDAT Positive Pay date and POSPAYSEQ Positive Pay seq. no. fields. If you are running for a range of checks, don't forget about leading zeros in the check number.

    If the above or Cindy's suggestion don't help, it could be your file format.. Consider following [email protected]'s path of engaging your business partner. Every bank has its own format requirements and it can be a bit tricky.

    Hope this helps