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When will this feature be available for Australia

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Martin Dráb 239,029 Most Valuable Professional on at

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I haven't heard anything about Australia going to join Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA); it sounds very improbable to me.

What is the background of your question?

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CK-19110112-0 12 on at

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It is the functionality of collecting outstanding amounts with an agreement in place at any time with a Direct Debit

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Adis 6,595 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hello @CK-19110112-0

The sepa file (XML) is used to upload vendor payments to a bank where you need to confirm the payments, so the bank will transfer it to the vendors from the bank account. Its used within the european union only as far as I know. For Australia, there are other formats that banks use for vendor payments.

Here are some additional information regarding SEPA.

SEPA credit transfer overview - Finance | Dynamics 365 | Microsoft Learn

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Martin Dráb 239,029 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Members of Single Euro Payments Area are EU members and quite a few other European countries, such as UK or Norway. There are no members outside Europe.

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Sohaib Cheema 49,677 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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In context of vendor payments in Dynamics 365, SEPA is a payment method. You can use electronic reporting configuration to generate SEPA Payment file (that you can send to a bank) for payment instructions.

You may be having confusion between direct debit and SEPA. Again, the Direct debit is a U.K. term for automatic payment collection (customer payment)

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H.M.Burhan 390 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi,

If your use case involves recording Direct Debit entries in Dynamics 365 Finance without manually creating each transaction, you can leverage the Advanced Bank Reconciliation functionality. This feature not only reconciles your transactions but also automatically creates any transactions that appear on the bank statement but have not yet been posted in Dynamics 365 Finance.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/finance/cash-bank-management/advanced-bank-reconciliation-overview

Cheers,

Burhan

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