Does anyone have any experience of using any payroll software and online banking facilities through it. If so can you advise what the experience has been like.
Further to this I need to know if the software is compatable with international banking as well as UK banking.
I use Sage payroll and it links with Barclays really well.
I think its more of whether you bank will accept the files from your payroll software than anything else. The software creates a CSV file and this is uploaded to the bank. It does not make much difference whether its domestic or international bank.
Just read your comment about Sage and uploading to Barclays, I didn't know it did that. One of my clients that I work out at has Sage payroll and Barclays Internet Banking. Would you mind telling me how this done as it will save me heaps of time if it can be done on my systems.
You have to get the e-banking module from Sage, about £120 per year, then you can save a CSV file from Sage to your desktop and upload that CSV to the Barclays online banking, very easy, takes 5 mins to do the payment etc.
You can also use it from Sage 50, we pay over 100 payments each week and its a god send. You'd better check the version of Sage with Sage, as not sure it will work an all?
So as it is a CSV file that is uploaded from Sage to Barclays, do you know if it possible to upload csv files that are not created in Sage. As this same client has its own developed software which they use for coordianting students, accommodation and work and I have to arrange payment of the host families on a fortnightly basis. I run a report from their system and manually input it to Barclays but was wondering if I could get this formatted correctly in csv file could I upload this directly also.
Barclays do accept a couple of others but only mainstream. Its all to do with the columns the data is in etc, so I guess if you copied the way say Sage produced the info, then it may be able to be uploaded: sort code,beneficiary,account no,amount,your ref,99
The 99 is always 99 so not sure what it relates to, lol
Barclays helpdesk is good and very helpful, although not sure if you asked a techie question what the response would be.
