Symptom
When trying to add a New Zealand Bank Account for a Supplier Account, an error message appears: "Special characters not permitted in bank account number: enter digit only."
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- In the Payables Work Center navigate to the Suppliers View and here to the Supplier Accounts sub-view.
- Click the Supplier Name to open its master data.
- Press View All.
- In the Financial Data Tab, go to the Bank Data Sub-tab.
- Enter Bank Account Number as XXXXXXX-XX. (XXXXXXX-XX represents the Bank Account Number)
- Press Save.
- The error message appears: "Special characters not permitted in bank account number: enter digit only".
Cause
Special characters are not allowed in bank account numbers for New Zealand as there is a special characters validation check.
Resolution
As per the standards bank account number should be as the format BB-RRRR-AAAAAAA-SSS (B- Bank, R-Branch, A-Account, S-Suffix).
BBRRRR is captured as the National Bank Code and it is expected to enter a 10 digit account number, like so: AAAAAAASSS.
If the suffix has less than 3 digits a respective amount of zeros is added to it instead of a hyphen (-), like so: XXXXXXX0XX instead of XXXXXXX-XX.
With the error message a new 10 digit account number is suggested with added zeros should the suffix have less than three digits. This number should be used instead.
See Also
Keywords
New Zealand, Special Characters , KBA , AP-BP-BPT , Business Partner Template , How To