Generate ABA File

This page guides the plan manager in the process of generating and downloading the ABA file.

These are the topics in this page

Introduction
Downloading the ABA File
Plan Management Banking Details

Introduction

The Australian Banking Association (ABA) file lists payment instructions (provide name, provider disbursement details, invoice particulars) that are uploaded to your financial institution via internet banking to settle suppliers invoices based on the payment amounts remitted from the NDIS into your nominated bank account.

Downloading the ABA File

The ABA file is downloaded via the claim batch screen and will only be available for claim batches with a status of “CLAIMED”. The ABA file lists a single payment per supplier based on the total amount remitted from the NDIS for invoices submitted within the claim batch.

To download the ABA file observe the following steps:

Navigate to Claim management>Plan Management claims sub-menu.
highlight and edit the batch for which you want to download the ABA file for.
Click Download ABA file link from the menu-bar.

After downloading the ABA file you can send the instructions through to your financial institution allowing a provider payment record to be established.

ABA file generation can only occur if you have uploaded the remittance file from PRODA into Brevity.

Plan Management Banking Details

A valid ABA file will only be generated if you have specified your banking details into the organisation record. Where invalid or absent details are observed the ABA file generation will error. To add or update your bank details observe the follow steps:

Navigate to Administration>Branch setup sub-menu.
From the branch details section click on the organisation lookup field, select “Edit Selected record” button(small arrow bar button) from the bottom.
It will navigate you to the organisation record, Scroll down to the bank details section.
Fill the necessary details and Click save.

The following is a summary of the banking fields configured into the Organisation module.

Bank: This field is used to specify the Bank name from the lookup table. You can add a new branch record using '+' icon at the bottom of bank lookup field.
BSB: This field is used to specify the bank state branch number of the selected branch
Account Number: This field is used to specify your bank account number.
Account Name: This field is used to specify your account name.
APCA User Id: This field is used to specify a unique 6 digit ID number.
Name of Remitter: This field is used to specify the remitter name.