Customers with accounts in Lebanon: ACH Credit payment screen enhancements

Last updated: 13 October 2016

Effective 4 December 2016, ACH Credit screens for payments from accounts in Lebanon are being updated on HSBCnet. The enhanced screens capture additional payment details and make it easier for you to provide complete, accurate information in your payment instructions.

Changes to existing labels
Current label	New label as of 4 December
Second Party ID	Beneficiary ID (accepts up to 12 characters)
Second party Name	Beneficiary name (accepts up to 35 characters)
Bank Number	Beneficiary bank identifier
Branch and account number or IBAN	Beneficiary IBAN
Reference field	Beneficiary reference (accepts up to 35 characters)
New fields effective 4 December
Purpose of payment	We encourage you to select an appropriate Purpose of payment code from the drop-down list. For Salary payments, select “SALA” For non-Salary payments, select “OTHR” Alternatively, you may choose not to select any code if you are providing the code in ‘Second party reference’ field.
Beneficiary address	This is an optional field. The beneficiary address provided in this field will not be included in payment processing.
Remittance information	This is an optional field, which can be used to provide details for the payment, up to a maximum of 105 characters. Special characters are not allowed in the remittance information field (i.e only A to Z and 0 to 9 characters are allowed).
Charge Type	This is an inactive field and requires no input.

Updated ACH Credit screens effective 4 December:

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The look and feel of the ‘Review’, ‘Acknowledgement’, ‘Authorisation Summary’, ‘Authorisation’ and ‘Partial Authorisation’ screens will also be updated, while the functionality will remain the same.

Please note that from 4 December 2016, when attempting to create a payment instruction using general/restricted templates, the instruction will be displayed using the new input screen and the new fields will be editable.

As a reminder, forward-dated payment instructions cannot be modified. If you need to change details in your forward-dated payments, you will need to cancel and recreate the instruction.

Customers making payments using the File Upload service
The table below outlines the Purpose of payment code information for payment files uploaded to HSBCnet via File Upload:

The Purpose of payment field will be available from 4 December This is an optional field used to identify your Salary and non-Salary payments. For Salary payments, please input “SALA” as the Purpose of payment code. For non-Salary payments, input “OTHR”.
File format	Payment type	Payment Purpose code field
XML v3	ACHCR	<RgltryRptg><Dtls><Cd>4 letter Purpose of payment code</Cd></Dtls></RgltryRptg>
XML v2	ACHCR	<RgltryRptg><RgltryDtls><Inf>4 letter Purpose of payment code</Inf></RgltryDtls></RgltryRptg>
iFile	ACHCR	SECPTY(Field 65) populate '4 letter Purpose of payment code'
MEABASIC	ACHCR	Column No AK - 4 letter Purpose of payment code
PAYMUL (CRG)	ACHCR	Group 15 - GIS+37' followed by FTX+ABY+++4 letter Purpose of payment code Element - C108-4440

The table below outlines the Remittance information fields for payment files uploaded to HSBCnet via File Upload:

The new Remittance Information field available will be available from 4 December This is an optional field, which can be used to provide details for the payment, up to a maximum of 105 characters. Special characters are not allowed in the remittance information field (i.e only A to Z and 0 to 9 characters are allowed).
File format	Payment type	Payment Purpose code field
XML v3	ACHCR	2.234 <RmtInf> [0..1],2.235<Ustrd>[0..n]
XML v2	ACHCR	2.84 <RmtInf> [0..1] ,2.85 <Ustrd> [0..n]
iFile	ACHCR	SECPTY Field 44, 45 and 46 (47 field should not be used)
MEABASIC	ACHCR	Column No AF, AG and AH (AI field should not be used)
PAYMUL (CRG)	ACHCR	Segment Group 16 ,Element 4440 ,FTX+PMD

For additional information on the Lebanon ACH Credit enhancement, please contact your local HSBCnet Support Centre or your HSBC Representative.