{"schema":"exacc.help.page/1","url":"https://exacc.au/help/pay-bills-aba-file/","title":"Pay bills with an ABA file","description":"Pay many supplier bills at once: Exacc makes an ABA file to upload to your bank, then records the payments and can email remittance advice.","category":"Bills & Payables","summary":"Open **Business › Purchases › Authorise and Pay**, set **Up to due date**, the **Description on your bank statement** and the bank account, tick the bills to pay, click **Pay Bills** and **Get ABA file**. Upload the file to your bank, then come back and click **Mark bills as paid** so Exacc records the payments.","lastVerified":"2026-10-02","apps":["app"],"processIds":["pay_bills"],"start":{"label":"Open Payables - ABA","url":"https://app.exacc.au/{dbId}/purchases/pay-bills"},"menuPath":["Business","Purchases","Authorise and Pay"],"before":["Your paying account set as **Bill payments account** in **Manage › Business Details › Banking**. Exacc works out the bank's ABA codes from its BSB.","Each supplier's BSB and account number on their contact. A supplier without them cannot be paid by ABA file (\"has no banking details\")."],"steps":[{"step":1,"title":"Choose which bills to pay","body":["Open **Business › Purchases › Authorise and Pay** (the page is called **Payables - ABA**). It lists finalised bills with something still due, up to the **Up to due date** you set, with each supplier's BSB and account under **Pay to**.","Tick the bills to pay. **Pay** is the amount for each (the amount due; you can pay less) and **Reference** is what the supplier sees, the bill number by default."],"url":"https://app.exacc.au/{dbId}/purchases/pay-bills","image":"https://exacc.au/help/pay-bills-aba-file/step-1.png"},{"step":2,"title":"Set the payment details","body":[],"fields":[{"name":"Description on your bank statement","help":"how the batch shows on your statement.","required":true},{"name":"Select bank account","help":"the account Exacc records the payments against. Choose your Bill payments account: the file itself always pays from that one.","required":true},{"name":"Consolidate each Supplier bills into one payment","help":"one bank transfer per supplier instead of one per bill."}]},{"step":3,"title":"Get the ABA file and upload it to your bank","body":["Click **Pay Bills**, then **Get ABA file** in **Create ABA file**. Exacc downloads **ABA_Payment_<date>.aba**. Upload it in your internet banking as a batch or bulk payment file."]},{"step":4,"title":"Record the payments in Exacc","body":["Once your bank has accepted the file, click **Mark bills as paid**. Exacc records one payment per supplier, dated today, and the bills show as paid. Tick **Send remittance advice e-mails** first to email each supplier what you paid.","Nothing is recorded until you click **Mark bills as paid**, so do it after the bank accepts the file, not before."]}],"sections":[{"heading":"Reconciling the bank feed","body":["Exacc records one payment per supplier even when the file has one line per bill. With **Consolidate** ticked the two match; without it, match the supplier's lines on your statement to that one payment."]}],"related":["https://exacc.au/help/record-bill-payment/","https://exacc.au/help/manage-bills/","https://exacc.au/help/update-business-details/","https://exacc.au/help/payables-summary-report/"],"linkNote":"Links containing {dbId} open that screen in the business file whose id is dbId. A person can also open this help page with ?db=<dbId> to get the same links as buttons."}