2699628 - How to Create Single Payment File for Multiple Transactions Using Custom Payment File Structure

• For a custom payment file structure, you notice that system creates different payment files for each transaction when you create the output file. 
• However, you expect that payment ID's are pooled together into a single payment file. 

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1. Go to the Liquidity Management work center.
2. Go to the Payment Monitor view.
3. Search for Payments In Transfer.
4. Search for document ID 123 and select the document ID's in transfer.
5. You can see the Outbound File ID's are different.

• The payment medium format does not allow multiple payments.
• For the payment medium format there is no logical granularity setting to bundle specific payments together.

1. In the Business Configuration workcenter access the Outgoing Bank Transfers fine tune activity. 
2. Choose Edit payment medium formats.
3. Highlight the concerned payment medium format. 
4. Go to the General tab and select the Multiple Payments Allowed check box.
5. Navigate to the  Sort Sequence and Granularity of payments tab. 
6. Select the 'Open new Logical Message / Batch' check box. Define for which payments within the payment file a logical message should be generated.
7. Save your changes. 

Now re-create the bank transfers and generate the outbound file.

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