Decimal value formatting for payment export

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Posted on by James De Filippo

Hi All,

Trying to solve an issue with a Payment Export file, where it is formatted as a decimal but outputs no decimal when there is a whole number.

Example: 100.00 is outputted as 100

Although this is being accepted by the bank it is showing as £1.00, once imported.

Another possibility is using the text padding, instead of decimals but i cant get this to work correctly.

Does anyone have any experience with this issue and can you show me the correct method to set this up in Data Exchange Definitions.

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Inge M. Bruvik 1,105 Moderator on at

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You have to add a data format to your colum:

docs.microsoft.com/.../standard-numeric-format-strings

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James De Filippo 90 on at

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Hi Inge,

We do have that in place, but is it incorrect?

Edit: Noticed <Decimal> should be <Decimals>...however doesn't resolve the issue.

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Dirk on at

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Did you try with something similar to this:

<Precision,2><Sign,1><Filler Character, ><Integer,7><Filler Character, ><Decimals>

Found it for a different example:

The expected result is an amount with 11 digits, and "0" as filler in case the number is smaller than 11 digits.

How to achieve this result:

In the column definition of the Data Exchange Definition for field amount you should have the following values.

Data Type = Amount
Data Format = <Precision,2><Sign,1><Filler Character,0><Integer,7><Filler Character,0><Decimals>

With this data format, you get the following results when exporting the payment file:

The amount of 100,11 is converted into:
00000100,11

The amount of 100,00 is converted into:
00000100,00

If the filling zeros are not needed, it is also possible to change the data format to this:

<Precision,2><Sign,1><Filler Character, ><Integer,7><Filler Character, ><Decimals>

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James De Filippo 90 on at

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Hi Dirik,

That's what i was missing! Now added the <Precision,2> to the data format!

Thank You!

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Dallefeld 211 User Group Leader on at

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In the field mapping for the amount field there is a 'multiplier field'. It which is hidden by default and is set to 1.00 by default. I needed 100 to show in the file as 10000 (no decimal in the file) and I was getting 100. By simply changing the multiplier to 100.00, the issue was solved. Not sure if it will work for you.

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