Initiate Payment Request (FPA)

Step 2 of 4

Enter Payment Transactions

Purpose of Step

This is the second step of the process for a Federal Program Agency to perform a payment request transaction, on behalf of a payment requestor The individual user that initiates the payment request from an ASAP account. . On this step, you will enter the amount(s) requested for the account(s) specified.

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Actions for this Step

1. Select the Bank Relationship Identifies a specific bank account to which the ASAP payment is to be credited. A payment requestor is allowed to have an unlimited number of Fedwire and ACH banking relationships. from those available to you in the drop down box in the first table.

The Payment Request Type selected on Step 1 determines the way that information is presented to you.

Payment Request Type - Individual

2. Enter the Amount Requested A dollar amount entered by the Requestor for a single Account or Account Detail. for each ASAP.gov The web enabled ASAP application. Account ID The ASAP account that has been setup by the federal program agency. for which you are requesting a payment.

Notes:

1. • For an Individual payment Separate transfer of funds to the Requestor's bank account for each ASAP account form which funds are requested. request type, if you enter a requested amount for three separate accounts, the Requestor will receive three ACH or Fedwire FRB central application for same day electronic funds transfer. deposits to its bank account.

1. • "Accounts unavailable for payment or already selected are not listed on this page". Generally, an account is unavailable if the status The current status of the authorization. is Closed, Suspended, Temporarily Suspended, or Marked for Deletion. Accounts already selected are those that you have an existing request in this session (this applies if you have returned to this step by clicking Add More Accounts in Step 3).

1. • If your retrieved criteria identifying accounts for multiple Recipients, they are grouped in separate tables.

1. • For an individual payment request type, the system will dynamically calculate the total amount requested per Recipient The organization that is entitled to the funds. and display it in the Total field. This is for information purposes only.

1. • The Requestor Reference Number is an optional field and is available for each Account ID.

1. •  Cash on Hand An optional field to be used as needed to indicate the amount of Federal funds in a Payment Requestor organization's bank account. is an optional field in order to record cash currently on hand before the initiation of a payment request. Some agencies may require you to record your Cash on Hand, each time you initiate a payment request.

1. • In each Detail row, the Control and Global Control Account An account with up to 300 account details, available balance is maintained and authorizations entered at control account level, however, the payment request is performed at the detail level CSV - comma separated value. ID is displayed. This makes it easier for the user to identify the parent account to which the Details By clicking the Details icon, the Reviewer is presented with additional information plus each individual item in the payment request. are associated when they span multiple pages.

1. • Please be aware that, when making an ACH transaction, the Detail IDs of Control Accounts and Global Control Accounts are not sent to the financial institution with the ACH transaction. Only the parent Account ID is sent to the financial institution. To accurately track payments made via Detail IDs, please see tips & tricks.

3. Click Continue.

Payment Request Type - Summary

1. Enter the Amount Requested for each ASAP.gov Account ID for which you are requesting funds.

Notes:

See Notes for Individual Payment Request Type plus the following.

1. • For a Summary payment A summary payment allows the user to request funds from multiple ASAP accounts and receive one transfer of funds. request type, if you enter a requested amount for three accounts, the Requestor will receive a single ACH or Fedwire deposit to its bank account.

1. • For a Summary payment request type, the system will dynamically calculate a subtotal of amounts requested per Recipient and display it in the Subtotal field. This is for information purposes only. The system will also dynamically calculate a Total Amount Entered.

2. Enter the Total Amount Requested (optional on this Step).

Notes:

1. • The Total Amount Requested represents the grand total of requested amounts for each Recipient.

1. • This amount should equal the Total Amount Entered.

3. Click Continue.

Note:

• If there is more than one page of payment requests, you may click on corresponding pages in order to find the specific payment request you wish to act on.

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