A set of financial or non-financial transactions for a specific business event.
Element Information
The <BusinessTransaction> element is a child element of the <Batch> element. The <BusinessTransaction> element is the first element under the <Batch> element and is a required repeating (unbounded) element.
The <BusinessTransaction> element contains 6 children elements and has a sequence content model. The sequence content model means that there is a particular order to the children elements of the parent element - in this case, the <BusinessTransaction> element has a particular order of elements that must be followed.
Attribute Information
Name
Use
DataType
Definition
ID
[1..1]
String [0, 80]
An identifier for the record. For a receiving system, this value can be used to reconcile updates to an existing record and qualify new records. For a sending system, this value can be used to reconcile acknowledgements for the submitted records.
TotalAmount
[0..1]
Decimal [20, 2]
Indicates the total absolute dollar amount of items.
TotalCount
[0..1]
0,1,2,..n
Indicates the total number of items.
AgencyAccountIdentifier
[0..1]
String [0, 40]
An identifier used by the agency for an account, for example, a Lockbox Number.
IsUpdate
[0..1]
1|0
Indicates if the item is an origination transaction or an update, for example, a value of '1' would mean that this is an update. If the attribute is not populated or not present in the XML instance document, then the default value is understood to be '0'.
InitiationDate
[0..1]
[dateTime] and [date]
The date that the transaction was initiated, for example, the date that the lockbox opened up the payment.
InitialLocation
[0..1]
String [0, 80]
Initial location of the point of deposit.
FinancialAgentInitialIdentifier
[0..1]
String [0, 80]
An identifier for the Financial Agent that initially received the transaction.