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ACH DC is a secure and reliable bulk payments service, which allows corporate institutions, to make single or batched payments by electronically transferring funds directly into different bank accounts across the country.
Customers of financial institutions can use this service for payments such as salaries, pensions, commissions, suppliers etc.
Use Cases for Corporate Institutions
- Payments: Companies seeking to make bulk or batched payment to individuals, business partners, suppliers, service providers can use ACH DC for all such payments.
Options:
- Business-to-Business (B2B) – Bulk Payments to different business entities
- Business-to-person (B2P) – Bulk transfer of funds to different individual account holders; across different banks.
| ACH Service Type | Features |
| Standard ACH DC |
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| Express ACH DC |
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In addition to the Standard & Express ACH DC, Near Real Time (NRT) ACH Service has been introduced to provide paying institutions with a Near Real Time bulk payment experience.
ACH DC Near Real-Time Service allows businesses to credit bank accounts of their beneficiaries within 15 minutes of sending funds transfer files to their paying bank.
- ACH DC NRT allows businesses/ corporate institutions to credit customer account faster (within 15 minutes) than both the Standard (within 24 hours) and Express (within 4hours) session.
- ACH DC NRT payments can be initiated anytime in the day between (6pm and 3:00pm the following day), and because it leverages the straight through processing (STP) system, crediting of customer’s account is done without manual or human intervention.
- NRT Allows Corporate Institutions to make bulk payments faster and almost in real time (e.g. salaries, allowances, supplier)
- NRT is an efficient payment option which provides transparency and certainty of payments
- NRT provides unrestricted banking hours for making bulk payments across banks.
- Corporate Institutions have the opportunity to make bulk payments anytime between 6:00pm and 3:00pm the following day
- Because the system allows banks of corporate institutions to represent returned payment details within the same session, corporate institutions can correct all payment errors for re-presentment without fear of missing payment timeline.
Institutions who are interested in using ACH DC NRT for all bulk payments should contact their banks or the Bulk Payments Unit of GhIPSS on 0302-610780. You can also log on to www.ghipss.com for more information about GhIPSS and our service offerings.