CU*Answers has a rolling schedule of network security audits and assessments including internal and external penetration testing. We do not limit the scope of these tests to just the online banking environment. We also do not publish the results or reports from these tests for security reasons. The test results are reviewed by our Executive Team, our Board of Directors (made up of peer credit union CEOs), as well as examiners from the NCUA and state regulatory agencies. They are also reviewed b  More...

Xtend has a 9-member Board of Directors. This board comprises seven (7) elected positions and two (2) appointed positions. The elected positions are filled by CEOs or senior executives from credit unions who have been Xtend stockholders for at least one year. The appointed positions consist of one seat for a CU*Answers executive (either the CEO, CIO, or CFO) and one seat for a current CU*Answers Board Director. A current list of Directors can be found in "About Xtend" on the Xtend Web Site   More...

First make sure the ballot is active. When you first enter the ballot configuration program, you should be confronted with a popup window indicating the Ballot Voting Period Has Started . If the ballot is indeed active, carefully check the eligibility rules specified for the election to make sure the account you are checking is eligible to vote according to those rules. Pay special attention to the Membership Designations Excluded. It is a common mistake to accidentally include the wrong Mem  More...

If your credit union uses the CU*Spy online vault, it's easy! Just choose INSTANTxx (where xx is your credit union CUID) as the printer name when printing any CU*BASE report. When the report is generated it will be sent directly to the new INSTANT OUTQ. CU*Spy will regularly monitor for reports sent to this queue and within a few minutes, you’ll see the report under the “Instant Reports” tab in CU*Spy. It will be indexed with the name of the report. IMPORTANT: Remember y  More...

Answer: The FRB requires that same-day credit items received in the 12:00pm ET file window are posted no later than 1:30pm ET. This will require a new ACH posting configuration from CU*Answers. That configuration was added to the software in the May release and will be made available to you no later than 9/9/19. CU*Answers Operations will begin bringing the 12:00pm ET FRB files in earlier beginning 7/22/19 in preparation for this change. CU*Answers plans to populate the configuration to “P  More...

You can find out how many visits you’ve had to your mobile web banking site by using Tool #565 Online Banking Detail Stats (AUDICC) . To see visits separated by day, with totals, enter the selection criteria as seen below (a total count for all days can be seen by navigating to the bottom of the report): Combine (And/Or) Field Name Comparison Criteria (Field, Number, ‘Text’, etc.) A.CCTYPE EQ = Equal to ‘I’ AND A.CCLOGT EQ = Equal to ‘W’

This will happen if you do not have access to YouTube, which hosts the videos found on the CU*Answers OnDemand site. To fix this problem, ask the IT person or network administrator at your credit union to enable access to YouTube. Another reason could be your browser. If you are having trouble witha particular video, try re-launching it using Internet Explorer rather than Chrome or other browser. The reason we are putting online course videos on YouTube now, instead of on our own server as   More...

Members can perform the following tasks while in Mobile Web Banking: Check account balances of savings, checking, certificate, credit card and loan accounts (both available and current balances). View transaction history for these accounts. View funds on hold for savings and checking accounts View pending authorizations for credit cards (if they exist) Transfer funds to other accounts (as allowed by standard online banking) View if a check has cleared (cancelled checks) View pending ACH transac  More...

Analytics Booth is a web-based software product that lets credit union analyze trends and receive online updates about what's happening in your credit union right now. The data begins being stored once you sign up for this product. Analytics Booth is currently tracking 54 data points across Balance, Member and Transaction data categories. You can sign up for emails to be delivered to you (your staff or board) on a daily basis. You can sign up for Alerts when specific data points chang  More...

CU*Answers is owned by credit unions and offers no private ownership. Its Board of Directors consists of seven credit union CEOs, providing a unique industry perspective and a direct vested interest in the success of CU*Answers clients. Creating equity through ownership is a constant at CU*Answers.

The NSF Statistics Dashboard (Tool #557) will track this information for you automatically. It is separated into the NSF category and the Courtesy Pay Category. Credit unions are using this dashboard to help predict averages of NSF/Courtesy Pay fee income and also to track how many members may be using the service. You can click on any of the origins (listed in blue text) and you can drill further to members who had more than X transactions in a specific month. There are a lot of graphical oppor  More...

The CU*TALK time-out values are 7 seconds across the board.

After you sign up for the Analytics Booth product, you can then sign up to receive Alerts if you need to keep tabs on certain stats. You can customize an alert just for changes in that data point. Filter it by branch or see details for your whole credit union. Use Management by exception to keep tabs on when data is out of normal. You can even set Alerts to be sent to your staff, board members, or other interested parties like an auditor. Don't know what normal is? Get a daily digest   More...

Using CU*BASE to Comply with New Rules for Tracking Beneficial Ownership FinCEN has issued new rules under the Bank Secrecy Act that require financial institutions to identify and verify the identity of the beneficial owners of all legal entity members (corporations, etc.). Under the final rule, credit unions are required to have written procedures to identify and verify beneficial owners of legal entity members who open new accounts on or after May 11, 2018. In addition to identifying and coll  More...

Tool #360 End of Month Processing should be used by your credit union whenever you have finished posting entries to your books for a particular month and want to prevent additional entries from being posted accidentally. Refer to the Closing Your Books link below for details about what happens when you use this feature. NOTE: This is not to be confused with the month-end processing that is done by CU*Answers Operators every month for online CUs (or by self processors) on the last day and fi  More...

While it is possible that an issue someone runs into on a website is an issue with the web server or a programming issue with the site, it is very important to rule out any browser or workstation incompatibilities first. If the website is not being opened in a supported browser, for instance, it can cause errors that would otherwise not exist. So what are some standard troubleshooting steps than can be taken? Are you using the latest version of your browser? Just like any other piece of software  More...

We strongly recommend that you regularly test access to the HA server to ensure that you can connect to CU*BASE in the event of an HA rollover test or actual disaster. We recommend that you perform this test monthly and whenever you make a change to your network. To perform this test, follow the instructions below. 1. Ensure that Telnet is installed on your workstation. If you are running Windows 10, you’ll need to install Telnet. Visit https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/conten  More...

To ping a network device, you will need to open a command prompt: In Windows 7, click on the Start button and type cmd (without the quotes) then press Enter. In Windows 10, type the following into the Windows Search box: cmd , and when the result appears, right click and select Run as Administrator Once the command prompt is open, you will need to type the word ping followed by the name or IP address of the network device you want to ping. To test connectivity to the High Availabil  More...

CU*Answers strives to accommodate our clients by offering training in many different formats, from full classroom offerings (see the current CU*Answers University Catalog) to online learning and web conference sessions. We also offer individual training sessions, and workshops which can be held either at a credit union site, or here at CU*Answers. For credit union staff to train internally, we offer our web-based online courses as well as hands-on learning using a pretend CU*BASE credit union  More...

Fiserv posts thier SAS70 Report on the Client Connect web site. Credit unions that are on an individual site, have a log in to Client Connect, so they can gain access. Credit unions on the Cooperative Model do not have access to Client Connect, so they would need to contact our Customer Care Specialists to get the report.

There is a standard report delivered through iPay's Master Site called the Exceptions Report . If you look at the members list for re-issues, those members incurred the stop payment fee.

The update process consists of three steps: Get the update package from CU*Answers Unpack the update package Update the PCs at your site Files are created by our programming team that need to get to you when it is time for an update. The combined size can be very large. To reduce the size, the files are bundled and compressed. The resulting package is placed on a server here at CU*Answers. You contact that server and retrieve the update package using either a GUAPPLE device or shortcuts that you  More...

The Alerts page is a link reached by clicking on the “NET” globe at the top right portion of your CU*BASE GOLD screen. A drop-down menu with several links appears, and Alerts is one of them. The Alerts page is used to warn you of any unforeseen problems, let you know about any issues that have suddenly come up, quickly make you aware of important announcements, and let you know about enhancements and corrections as they occur. It is a virtual bulletin board for important, late-bre  More...

An Internet Service Provider (ISP) is the company from which you purchase internet access services (like AOL or IServ). A browser is a piece of software on your PC which allows you to access things like web sites, Internet access. Examples are Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. Upgrading your browser is important. It insures you have the most current version with the most up-to-date features, speed and options. But in most cases what is needed the most is to upgrade the encryption  More...

Online banking rates don’t automatically update based on changes to loan categories. In order for the rate to be reflected in online banking, you must also update the rate in the Online Banking section of the Loan Product (Tool #470). To do this select the product shown on your rate board and enter the Online Banking screen. While the rate on this screen will reflect the change to the loan category, in order for it to be shown in online banking, you must save this screen. Use Enter, and th  More...