Use this screen to establish the configuration of the file that are created for direct deposit transmittal (the ACH file), and to set up your direct deposit advice, cash account, bank reconciliation information, and Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS) information. Use this screen to maintain the ACH Control File to meet your bank's requirements.
You must set up this screen before you create your first direct deposit file or print your first direct deposit advices and before you submit your first EFTPS tax deposit. Update this screen if you change banks or if your bank changes its requirements.
This screen contains the following tabs:
ABA/File Setup — Use this tab to set up bank account and file header information.
Posting/Advice Information — Use this tab to set up cash account information for each of your direct deposit pay cycles.
For more information about direct deposits, see the Direct Deposit of Payroll topic.
Enter, or click 
to select, the pay cycle for which you are setting up your direct deposit advice, cash account, bank reconciliation information, and EFTPS deposit information (you can set up only one pay cycle at a time). You must set up a record for each pay cycle for which you want to do direct deposit and EFTPS deposits. You should set up a "dummy" pay cycle in the Manage Pay Periods screen to use for your EFTPS deposits and enter it here.
Enter the last advice number for this pay cycle. This field is updated with the last advice used upon execution of the Print Payment Advices process, when you print payment advices. This value is not updated when you reprint payment advices, or if the advice number is manually entered on the Manage Employee Earnings History screen.
Select this check box to prevent users from generating an ACH Direct Deposit File for employees assigned to the pay cycle. Clear the check box to allow generation of an ACH Bank File for the pay cycle.
Select this check box to indicate that the person who prints paper paychecks has the option to also print them for employees that have active direct deposit bank information, but have no check number or check date assigned to the Payroll Edit record. If this check box is selected, the Include employees with active direct deposit information check box will be enabled in the Print Paychecks screen.