Paycheck Direct Deposit for ezPaycheck Customers

How ezPaycheck Works with ezACH

Many ezPaycheck customers also like ezACh software for paycheck direct deposit. An ACH deposit means that funds are electronically deposited into an account. This means there is no need for a person to write a check and no one has to visit a bank to complete the transaction.

Here is the quick start guide on how to set up ezACH software quickly. (If you are not a ezPaycheck customers, you can refer to the general Quick Start Guide.)

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ezACH can generate the ACH file that you can upload to your account for electronic fund tranfers. If you have not installed this ACH generator, you can download and try it free for 14 days with no obligation and no credit card needed. ezACH software is compatible with Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, 2012, 2003 and other Windows PC.

What you need to set up direct deposit

You have talked with your bank to enable ACH Payment Feature

You have collected employees' bank account information.

You have installed ezACH software.

Step 1. Set up company bank account information

(Note: You can ignore this step if you already set up the bank account.)

Start ezACH software, you can click the "Settings" button to view and edit current bank set up. No matter you will pay employees or collect funds from customers, this should be your bank information. This is bank the that will receive your ACH file and process the transactions.

ACH Header Settings

Immediate Destination Routing number	Typically your bank's ABA/Routing Number (9 digits)
Immediate Destination Name	Your Bank Name. Such as "PNC BANK, KENTUCKY, INC." or "Bank of America NE"
Immediate Origin Number	This is the company ID assigned by your bank. Typically your Fed ID (oftern with a leading "1"), an account number, or ABA Number. Not sure, Try 1 + Fed ID. The maximum length is 10-digit.
Immediate Origin Name	Your company Name

Step 2: Import clients and update client account with bank information

(Note: You can ignore this step if you already set up the clients.)

Instead of entering client one by one, ezPaycheck customers to import client information from ezPaycheck easily. You can click the top menu "Import", then select "Import Client From Other source", then choose "ezPaycheck" to import clients.

To learn more, you can view step by step guide on How to import employees here.



After you import the employee data, you need to edit the client information one by one to update the bank account because ezPaycheck does not have employees' bank information.

You can select one client from list, then click "Edit xxx" to update a client's bank information.

Step 3. Import paycheck transactions from ezPaycheck

ezPaycheck customers can import paycheck transactions easily instead of entering them one by one.

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Step 4. Review the transactions and generate the ACH file

Review the transactions. If everything is correct, click the "Generate ACH file" to generte the file


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If there is no error in list, click the SAVE button to save your file.


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Step 5. Upload this ACH file to your bank to process transaction

Then you can log in your bank account, upload the ACH file, review and authorize the transactions. Usually your employees can see funds in their account in 24 hours.

Your bank should give you the user ID, password and instructions on how to upload/send file. You can contact your bank for more details.

Here is a sample on how to upload the ACH file to PNC bank.

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Note

For the first direct deposit, we would like to suggest new customers to start with a small amount such as $2.99 or $4.99. Once you confirm your employees get the funds successfully, you can start the regular deposit.

You can click the top menu "ACH Transaction" to view transaction management screen. You can edit the transaction amount easily by selecting one transaction from transaction list and editing it.

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Related Links:

ACH Direct Deposit Quick Start Guide

1. How to start direct deposit via ACH payment

2. The cost of using ezACH software

3. Install and start ezACH

4. How to create NACHA ACH file for paycheck direct deposit

5. How to collect funds via ACH direct deposit

Bank origination account management

Client management

Transaction management

Create NACHA ACH file

Upload ACH file to bank to process transactions

Mutiple-user network version

Sample: How to import transactions from .csv file

Sample: ezACH guide For ezPaycheck payroll software user

Sample: How to import data from ezCheckPrinting software