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Enhanced Bank Account Management

Introduction to Mekorma Payment Hub » Enhanced Bank Account Management

Localize Your Bank Account Configurations Maintaining bank accounts across multiple companies is tedious. With Mekorma Bank Accounts, manage all your companies and their bank accounts, check reports, and check report layouts from one screen. Mekorma Bank Accounts…

Setting Up a Bank Account

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Bank Accounts » Setting Up a Bank Account

The fundamental steps of your bank account setup are to: Configure the MICR line. This is the primary item needed in order to switch from pre-printed check stock to blank check stock. Choose a check report. For those using Electronic Signatures, Mekorma…

Changing Bank Accounts During Check Printing

Using Mekorma Payment Hub » Bank Accounts » Changing Bank Accounts During Check Printing

Use Payment Hub to manage bank account preferences that follow the bank account throughout the payment process. If you change the bank account during check printing, the check report and check report layout associated with a bank account automatically update with the…

Apply a Threshold to a Bank Account

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Electronic Signatures » Apply a Threshold to a Bank Account

You can apply a specific threshold to each of your bank accounts. In many cases, you may have different check signing rules in your organization based on your different bank accounts. To apply a threshold to a bank account, follow these steps: Navigate to Bank…

Adding a Logo to a Bank Account

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Bank Accounts » Setting Up a Bank Account » Adding a Logo to a Bank Account

A company logo can be associated with individual bank accounts, and used within multiple companies. This feature is useful if you use one check format in many companies and bank accounts, but you’d like a different logo for each bank account. You can attach 2…

Bank Accounts

Using Mekorma Payment Hub » Bank Accounts

Payment Hub streamlines managing your bank accounts. This section details how to use bank accounts to assist with your day-to-day business operations.

Bank Accounts

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Bank Accounts

Payment Hub streamlines managing your bank accounts. This section details how to configure bank accounts to assist with your day-to-day business operations.

Selecting Check Reports

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Bank Accounts » Setting Up a Bank Account » Selecting Check Reports

With Payment Hub, you can link check reports and specific layout preferences to each bank account. This is helpful when you have multiple bank accounts that require their own check design. Maintain your check printing preferences for individual bank accounts from the…

Check Remittance Overflows

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Bank Accounts » Setting Up a Bank Account » Check Remittance Overflows

When processing check payments, configuring how remittance overflows are handled is an essential part of managing payment reporting. A check remittance lists the invoices included in a payment. When there are more invoices than can fit in a standard remittance report,…

Printing Check Copies

Using Mekorma Payment Hub » Bank Accounts » Printing Check Copies

Some Mekorma customers like to feed PDF check copies into their document management system. With Business Central, you can choose to attach a copy of a check to individual payments. If you have check copies configured, automatic check copies generate in Business…

Setting Up Check Copies

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Bank Accounts » Setting Up a Bank Account » Setting Up Check Copies

Payment Hub allows you to create copies of checks and remittances. When enabled, each copy automatically: Saves as a PDF Includes a void watermark Removes the MICR line Check copy settings are applied to each bank account, while watermarks are applied across your…

Printing Check Remittance Overflows

Using Mekorma Payment Hub » Bank Accounts » Printing Check Remittance Overflows

If an invoice stub overflow is encountered on the Mekorma check report, the remittance report automatically prints after the Mekorma check report and in the same sequence as the check report. Remittance reports are configured in the bank account card. To print…

Setting Up Check Parameters

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Bank Accounts » Setting Up Check Parameters

You can customize how checks for each bank account behave. Establish your check printing parameters in the bank account settings. Click on Print Payment Options (Bank Account Card > Mekorma Settings > Payment Hub > Print Payment Options) to review and define the check…

Using Multiple Printers

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Printers » Printing Options » Using Multiple Printers

If using multiple email printers, each printer must have the same name in every company. This ensures seamless integration with cross-company processing. Action Board relies on the printer names in the Printer Selection table (shared across companies). If the printer…

Connecting Bank Accounts for Remote Payments

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Remote Payment Services » Connecting Bank Accounts for Remote Payments

Remote Payment Services allows you to connect an unlimited number of bank accounts for payment processing. To set up a bank account for remote payments, navigate to Bank Accounts and select the bank account you will be processing remote payments from. *This only…

Previewing Signatures on a Check

Using Mekorma Payment Hub » Electronic Signatures » Processing Check Payments with Electronic Signatures » Previewing Signatures on a Check

Electronic Signatures allow you to preview the signatures that will appear on the check by selecting Preview Check from the Check action. This applies when the Bal. Account Type field has been set to Bank Account and you have selected a bank account in the Bal. Account…

Printing a Check with Signatures

Using Mekorma Payment Hub » Electronic Signatures » Processing Check Payments with Electronic Signatures » Printing a Check with Signatures

The steps below show you how to print a check with a signature attached. Click on Check and select Print Check…. On the check page, fill in the fields as necessary. You must at least select a bank account to print your checks. Hover over a field to read a…

Using Mekorma Payment Hub

This section of the user guide explains and demonstrate how to use Mekorma Payment Hub.

Managing Bank Accounts for All Your Companies

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Bank Accounts » Managing Bank Accounts for All Your Companies

Cross-company configuration streamlines managing all companies within your organization. From Mekorma Bank Accounts, you can: View and access your associated companies and bank accounts Manage check reports and layouts To open this feature, search Business…

Selecting Mekorma Electronic Signatures Check Reports

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Bank Accounts » Setting Up a Bank Account » Selecting Check Reports » Selecting Mekorma Electronic Signatures Check Reports

Mekorma Electronic Signatures is a product that integrates automated electronic signatures based on check payment amount. It provides 4 custom Mekorma check reports. Mekorma check reports are customizable and allow for the addition of up to 2 images/logos, fractional…

Processing Check Payments with Electronic Signatures

Using Mekorma Payment Hub » Electronic Signatures » Processing Check Payments with Electronic Signatures

Electronic Signatures relies on Business Central’s Payment Journal feature to process payments and display electronic signatures. See Overview of Tasks to Manage Payments to Vendors – Business Central | Microsoft Docs. Note: For additional information on…

Check Documents and Journals While You Work

Using Mekorma Payment Hub » Check Documents and Journals While You Work

The Journal Check feature in Business Central is an easy way to minimize errors and review the specifics of batch lines using FactBoxes. While this feature is native to Business Central, Mekorma recommends using it to assist with your Payment Hub processing. For more…

Using the Mekorma RPS Assessment Tool

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Remote Payment Services » Assessment and Onboarding » Using the Mekorma RPS Assessment Tool

As mentioned previously, assessment is the process of evaluating your vendor spending to determine how Remote Payment Services fits with your organization. After registering with Mekorma, use the built in Mekorma RPS Assessment Tool to compile and download your…

To Pay a Vendor Invoice with a Computer Check

Using Mekorma Payment Hub » Electronic Signatures » Processing Check Payments with Electronic Signatures » To Pay a Vendor Invoice with a Computer Check

The following describes how to pay a vendor by check: Navigate to Payment Journals. Fill in the payment journal lines. For more information, see Apply Payments to Related Documents and Post Them—Business Central | Microsoft Docs. In the Account Type…

Selecting the Remittance Address to Print on the Check

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Electronic Signatures » Selecting the Remittance Address to Print on the Check

Electronic Signatures provides the flexibility to select the remittance address to print on the face of the check. You can select either the address from the vendor’s purchasing invoice or the address from the vendor card. The following describes how to enable this…

Configuring the MICR Line

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Bank Accounts » Setting Up a Bank Account » Configuring the MICR Line

The MICR line is the coded banking information on your check which is printed in the IDAutomationCMC7 font. By printing the MICR line, Payment Hub can provide the capability of printing on blank, rather than pre-printed, check stock. You can customize the MICR line for…

Building Remote Payment Batches with Action Board

Using Mekorma Payment Hub » Action Board » Build Payment Batches » Building Remote Payment Batches with Action Board

One of the advantages of Remote Payment Services is that all standard Business Central procedures for building batches can be used to build remote batches and all payment types can be combined in a single batch. The batches are built as standard check batches, yet the…

Processing Payments with Action Board

Using Mekorma Payment Hub » Action Board » Process Payments » Processing Payments with Action Board

The Process Payments page shows all your payments available for processing, including those that have errors or are pending approval. Transactions are processed at the batch and bank account level, so if you have multiple lines in a batch using different bank…

Activating Remote Payment Services

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Remote Payment Services » Activating Remote Payment Services

To activate Remote Payment Services, you must change the payment processing location from Local to Outsourced. This allows payments to be outsourced to your chosen remote payment service provider instead of being processed locally in Business Central. Local…

Troubleshooting

This section provides solutions to commonly troublesome topics. For more detailed and specific topics, visit our Knowledge Base. Having trouble viewing Action Board? If for some strange reason you have trouble viewing Action Board, or any of your companies,…

Creating a Process Template

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Action Board » Creating a Process Template

A Process Template allows you to specify all the payment batches that you want to build. Insert Build IDs from all your companies to pay multiple batches at once. *Simply put, a Process Template tells Business Central how you are going to pay your batches. The bulk…

Processing Payments Batch Statuses

Using Mekorma Payment Hub » Action Board » Process Payments » Processing Payments Batch Statuses

The Batch Status column helps you quickly see the status of each batch, showing whether it’s ready or waiting on follow up. This makes it easy to track where each batch stands and spot any issues. This table defines what each status means. Errors Exist…

Creating Payment Suggestions

Using Mekorma Payment Hub » Remote Payment Services » Submitting Remote Payments » Creating Payment Suggestions

Standard Business Central functionality allows shared payment document numbers, while Remote Payment Services does not. For optimized remote payment services integration, Mekorma requires you to enable one of two options when using Suggest Vendor Payments. In the…

Selecting Your Printers

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Printers » Selecting Your Printers

Once you have determined which printer will be used for payment processing, navigate to Printer Selections to set up which printer(s) you want to send check reports to. Printers are set up per user, so each user can have their own printer setups. You must set up a…

Setting Up Signature Thresholds

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Electronic Signatures » Setting Up Signature Thresholds

Signature thresholds are used to set up signature rules based on your organization’s policies. They ensure the correct signature appears on the check at print time, based on your rules. You can also control whether signature lines are printed or not, depending on…

Setting Up Universal Printers

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Printers » Printing Options » Setting Up Universal Printers

Payment Hub allows you to configure printer settings for each bank account and company. Prior to printing with Payment Hub, you must set up your printer settings for universal printing. This allows you to use a local or network printer to use Business Central’s…

Electronic Signatures

Introduction to Mekorma Payment Hub » Electronic Signatures

Electronic Signatures enhances your payment process by removing the burden of check signing from your approvers. Using payment thresholds in conjunction with Business Central’s Payment Approval workflow, you can automatically sign approved payments and get your…

Post Batches

Using Mekorma Payment Hub » Action Board » Post Batches

Action Board streamlines the posting of payables batches across multiple companies and bank accounts. Refer to Configuring Action Board prior to processing with Action Board. Instead of logging into each company separately, you can view and select all batches for…

Remote Payment Services

Introduction to Mekorma Payment Hub » Remote Payment Services

Remote Payment Services handles all your vendor payments through this process flow: You send check batches to the service provider The service provider sends payments on your behalf Your vendor gets paid the way they want—by check or electronically All your…

Action Board

Using Mekorma Payment Hub » Action Board

Action Board helps you manage your accounts payable processes more efficiently. It is designed to operate across companies, allowing you to view, build, and post batches from all your companies, while remaining logged into just one. From one screen, you…

Registering Payment Hub

Getting Started with Mekorma Payment Hub » Registering Payment Hub

Payment Hub is provided under trial with your registration. Upon termination of the trial period, you must register the product to continue with the onboarding process. Registering your product is important so that Mekorma can provide the best customer support…

Creating a Build ID

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Action Board » Creating a Build ID

A Build ID allows you to save rules for selecting purchase invoices for payment. You then assign the Build IDs to Process Templates to build numerous batches with different criteria in one streamlined process in Action Board. A Build ID is a template comprised of…

Setting Up Users for Vendor Validation

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Vendor Validation » Setting Up Users for Vendor Validation

Vendor Validation is especially beneficial for users who can modify vendor master data. To allow users to validate vendors in Business Central, you must enable this feature for each user and company in the User Setup window. Users who have access to Vendor Validation…

Obtaining Your Vendor AP Spend Information

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Remote Payment Services » Assessment and Onboarding » Manually Completing the Assessment and Onboarding Worksheets » Obtaining Your Vendor AP Spend Information

Part of the Assessment process is to obtain your vendor AP spend information, which will aid both Mekorma and the payment provider to determine the mix of payment types (check, ACH, credit card) that your vendors will accept. It also allows Mekorma to determine the…

Introduction to Mekorma Payment Hub

Welcome to Mekorma’s online user guide, designed to equip you with the knowledge needed to install, configure, and run payment processes using Mekorma Payment Hub for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central® (Business Central). This guide can always be accessed from…

Action Board

Introduction to Mekorma Payment Hub » Action Board

If your organization can set certain basic policies for: how you select your check batches how often you pay which payment discounts you want to capture what payment methods you want to use then Action Board provides a way to streamline your processing efforts.…

Handling Remote Payment Errors

Using Mekorma Payment Hub » Remote Payment Services » Submitting Remote Payments » Handling Remote Payment Errors

Error messages in Business Central are generally specific and provide sufficient detail on what the issues are, enabling you to take corrective action. With Remote Payment Services, errors are expressed either through the Batch Status field or the Journal Check…

Prior to Configuring Electronic Signatures

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Electronic Signatures » Prior to Configuring Electronic Signatures

Prior to configuring Electronic Signatures, it is important to understand how you will implement your signature logic and the required personnel. There are several things that you should prepare: For each checking account, who are the signers on the account? What…

Processing Remote Payment Batches with Action Board

Using Mekorma Payment Hub » Action Board » Process Payments » Processing Remote Payment Batches with Action Board

Process remote payments the same as you would process local payments with Action Board. All standard Business Central procedures for processing payments can be used to process remote payments. Remote and local payments can be processed at the same time. There are a few…

Posting Batches with Action Board

Using Mekorma Payment Hub » Action Board » Post Batches » Posting Batches with Action Board

To post a batch, you must first have built a batch via Action Board or created a batch manually, then follow the steps below: Navigate to Action Board. Select Post Batches from the Action menu. In the Marked column, select which batch(es) you want to work…

Renumbering Payment Numbers

Using Mekorma Payment Hub » Remote Payment Services » Submitting Remote Payments » Renumbering Payment Numbers

There are scenarios in which you may find duplicate payment or check numbers. Remote Payment Services has the ability to renumber payments so that there are no duplicate numbers. Renumber at the payment level for ad hoc updates, or enable automatic renumbering that…

How to Create a Digital Signature

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Electronic Signatures » How to Create a Digital Signature

Here are the step-by-step instructions, as recommended by Mekorma, to provide the digital signatures you want to print on your checks: Print out our Template for Gathering Signatures. Ask each check signer to reproduce their signature within a rectangle. Use…

Action Board

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Action Board

Action Board was designed with simplicity in mind. The configuration process is straightforward, allowing you to get started quickly. The steps to getting started building payment batches in Action Board are: Create your first Build ID Create your first Process…

Process Payments

Using Mekorma Payment Hub » Action Board » Process Payments

After creating payment batches and having them approved, the next step is to process payments. This could entail: Printing checks Creating and sending EFT remittances Sending your batches to an outsource provider Essentially, it is the process of conveying…

Setting Up Vendor Validation Providers

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Vendor Validation » Setting Up Vendor Validation Providers

The Mekorma Vendor Validation Setup page is where you enable, disable, and configure each validation provider. By default, each provider is disabled. Click the toggle button to activate the providers you wish to use. When a provider is disabled, its configurations are…

How to Use This Guide

New users can follow step-by-step installation, configuration, and usage instructions delivered via written content and video demonstrations. Experienced users can review this guide for any applicable new feature information, or use it as an ongoing reference…

Submitting Remote Payments

Using Mekorma Payment Hub » Remote Payment Services » Submitting Remote Payments

*This topic covers submitting remote payment batches through the standalone process. For submitting remote payments with Action Board, see Processing Remote Payment Batches with Action Board. When you have one or more invoices ready to pay, navigate to Payment…

Electronic Signatures

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Electronic Signatures

Electronic Signatures works in conjunction with Business Central’s payment approval workflow to keep you from having to manually sign checks. For those using Binary Stream’s Multi-Entity Management (MEM), Electronic Signatures integrates seamlessly, allowing you…

Printers

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Printers

This section covers how to set up Action Board-compatible printers in Business Central, using Email Print and Universal Print options managed from the Printer Management page. Before printing with Action Board, configure Printer Selections for each printer and…

Security

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Security

Security for Payment Hub requires users to be granted access to the Mekorma permission set for each company. These permission sets give users physical access to Action Board and allow control over which companies users are able to process payments with. The…

Setting Up Batch Approval Workflows

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Action Board » Setting Up Batch Approval Workflows

Prior to submitting batches for approval with Action Board, you need to create batch approval workflows in Business Central. When these workflows are created and enabled, the batches for each company display in Action Board. For more information on approval workflows…

Assessment and Onboarding

Configuring Mekorma Payment Hub » Remote Payment Services » Assessment and Onboarding

To use Remote Payment Services, it is necessary to first determine your AP spend. AP spend is a qualifier for remote payment service eligibility. For more information on eligibility, review the section Is Payment Outsourcing for You? on the Mekorma website. To…