3549779 - SEPA Mandate Sequence Type SeqTp Missing for Country Austria in EPC Payment File

In the Payment File SEPA Direct Debit EPC the field SeqTp (Sequence Type) is missing even though it is mandatory according to EPC rule book and for the bank it is mandatory as well.

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1. Go to the Liquidity Management Work Center.
2. Go to the Outbound Files view.
3. Search for Outbound File XXX (where XXX is the Outbound File ID).
4. You notice that Outbound File is of Format SEPA Direct Debit EPC.
5. Open Attachment xml file with an XML Editor.
6. Search for seqtp.
   You can see no results. However seqtp is legally necessary for banks in Austria.

Development now have released the revised templates for Austria Payment Files in accordance with the rule book 2023, in the recent release2411, using XSL Transformation. If you are still using the older version, then we recommend you to adopt the latest templates according to the payment medium format by referring to the blog provided below.

https://community.sap.com/t5/financial-management-blogs-by-sap/austria-sepa-payment-files-using-xslt-transformations-in-accordance-with/ba-p/13945251

1. Please follow the steps provided in the blog https://community.sap.com/t5/financial-management-blogs-by-sap/austria-sepa-payment-files-using-xslt-transformations-in-accordance-with/ba-p/13945251
2. After you have followed the steps in the blog discard the payment file and recreate the payment file again.

SEPA Direct Debit EPC, Direct Debit, Payment File, Austria , KBA , SRD-FIN-CLM , Cash and Liquity Managment , Problem