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For security reasons, I like to lock out members from using online banking until they actually want to use it. But with non-use expiration and automatic deactivation features turned on, how do I run any sort of online banking promotion?
If you: A) automatically deactivate online banking access for all new members, and B) expire online banking passwords due to non-use after 90 days, then how do you run an online banking promotion? After all, sending a marketing piece to members won't do any good if they're disabled or locked out from logging in. Of course you could have them call the credit union to get set up, but here's another idea: Set up a special promotional period! Pick a date to start your campaign. Advert More...
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What are Trends in Analytics Booth?
Analytics Booth Trends provide a quick and easy way to view your credit union activity over time. Trending information can show how your credit union is performing. Watch for blips and spikes to see if marketing campaigns are succeeding. Did you run a new membership drive last month? Watch the trend to see how it paid off. Trends can be viewed on over fifty key performance indicatiors including balance, member, and transaction data. The graphs displayed on the trends screen can be selected to More...
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Can I change the graphics that display in Xpress Teller?
Yes, you can customize the entry screen of Xpress Teller with four custom graphics using CU Publisher suite. All four graphics can have hyperlinks. This feature allows you to market special services, offerings, promotions, or other campaigns you wish to keep top of mind with your staff as they assist members. Learn more about this feature in the store. See the link below. When uploading graphics CU Publisher be sure to use graphics that are 420 x 210 pixels if you use the standard size screen. More...
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How do member phone numbers work as they relate to card orders and maintenance?
CU*BASE uses phone numbers that are stored in the MASTPH file when generating card activation information to send to vendors on initial card orders. The numbers in MASTPH are determined by the label/flag applied in Tool #3 Open/Maintain Memberships/Accounts or Tool #15 Update Membership Information as follows: Nighttime # - primary phone number sent to vendor and defaulting into the Card Activation field when ordering a card. Daytime # - secondary phone number sent to the vendor. Mobile – More...
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On some of my 1098 tax forms, members who just opened a loan this year are seeing an amount under “Box 2. Outstanding Mortgage Principal” that they don’t understand. Where does this figure come from?
The IRS, which makes changes to tax form layouts almost every year, recently added this new informational box to form 1098 to report the balance on a mortgage account as of January 1 of that same tax year. Each year on January 1 we capture the loan balance on all loan accounts in a special file, and then when tax forms are created at the end of the year we can use that figure. Therefore, for loans that were opened in a prior tax year, this balance is usually easy for members to understand. More...
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I am not a managed client of Network Services. How do I join my Windows 10 iSweep to my domain and create the necessary folders?
As a result of a January 2018 Windows 10 update, you will need to join your Windows 10 iSweep to your domain. This will be handled internally for Network Services Managed Clients, however, non-managed clients will need to have Network Services work with their IT staff/third party IT company to setup a new local account on the machine in order to join this unit to your domain and complete the additional steps. Configuring Group Policy and Active Directory Active Directory Configuration Open Act More...
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My member gets a Social Security (SSA) deposit via ACH. We use an ACH distribution to pay the member’s loan payment, but the loan payment was not made. Why did this happen and what benefits are there to using an Automated Funds Transfer (AFT) instead?
Prior to the 16.10 release, the SSA began using multiple Company IDs, and it was recommended that credit unions consider using Automated Funds Transfers (AFTs) to handle distributions. Beginning the 16.10 release a new cross-reference system will be implemented that will automatically funnel all incoming company IDs from the Social Security Administration and treat them as if they came from one, consistent company ID we’re referring to as the “Primary ID.” With the changes ma More...
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Can I adjust the amount recorded as the previous-year total paid to an Accounts Payable vendor? Is there a deadline if I want this change to appear on 1099-MISC tax forms?
If you need to adjust the previous year total paid that will appear on a 1099-MISC form, launch tool # 990 Work with AP Vendors , select the vendor, then click the Update 1099 Misc for Prev Year button and update the amount that should be reported on form 1099-MISC. This must be done after January 1 but prior to the deadline set in your Year-End Processing Guide (typically within the first week of January) if you want the change to be included on the printed 1099-MISC form.
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A third-party software (iText Sharp) is required on my PC for PDF exports from the dashboard. How do I install this?
A third-party utility is needed to generate robust PDF output. If you are having issues with PDF generation, it is possible that this is missing or corrupt on your PC. Or it may mean that you have not yet installed the software on your PC. To see examples of how CU*BASE GOLD utilizes this sofware, click here to open the PDF Exports from CU*BASE flyer. See below for directions on what to do if you need to purchase a license of this sofware (iText Sharp) or how to install it once you have purc More...
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If I have changed my Social Security (SSA) ACH Deposits to use the Automated Funds Transfer solution, should I now consider changing back to ACH deposits?
Prior to the 16.10 release, the SSA began using multiple Company IDs, and it was recommended that credit unions consider using Automated Funds Transfers (AFTs) to handle distributions. Beginning with the 16.10 release a new cross-reference system will be implemented that will automatically funnel all incoming company IDs from the Social Security Administration and treat them as if they came from one, consistent company ID we’re referring to as the “Primary ID.” With the chang More...
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How do I research why a loan did not report to the Credit Bureau?
Here are seven things to review if you are trying to research why a loan did not report to the credit bureau. Look to see if the loan is flagged not to report to the credit bureau: Access Tool #20 Update Account Information (shortcut: acct) for the account and click the Credit Reporting Info button. The Report to credit bureau flag must be checked. Look at the Credit Report History located in Loan Account Inquiry via the Delinquency window (F23 or click the lookup button next to the Deli More...
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A member did not get either an October or November statement, but his December statement showed a range of 12/1 to 12/31, not 10/1 to 12/31 as I would have expected. Can you explain?
In this particular member's situation there was no activity in either October or November that triggered a statement. The credit union's quarterly (and year-end) statements are configured to produce a statement for every member, regardless of activity level, but monthly statements are more restrictive in an attempt to save postage costs, and not every member gets a statement every month. NOTE: CU*BASE statements have a considerable number of configuration options that allow credit unio More...
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Can CU*BASE produce 1099-MISC forms for payments I make to my vendors?
Yes. The annual Year-End Processing Guide includes specific steps on preparing your A/P vendors for annual 1099-MISC reporting. Certain configuration settings are needed to ensure that the system calculates the amount paid to the vendor for the year and places it into the Previous year 1099-MISC amount field on the vendor record during year-end processing. Prior to year-end: Verify the setting of the Create a form 1099-MISC year end flag on each vendor (via Tool # 990 Work with A/P Vendors ) More...
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My member closed their account in November and received a November Statement but did not receive a December Statement. Why? How will they get their 1099-INT information?
If the member closed their account in November, they would receive a final statement for their November transactions but will not receive a December Statement as they did not have any transactions in December and the account was not active. This would also be true for members who closed their accounts earlier in the year. For example, for a membership closed in April, the member will receive their final statement at the end of April then will not receive another statement again (not even the q More...
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What is iShield Security?
There are many, many components in the infrastructure that protects your member data, from passwords and daily backups to production redundancy and full-blown DR/BR plans. One important piece of that puzzle involves the protections we put in place to control data moving between the System i and a local workstation. Years ago no one ever imagined an employee popping a thousand member records onto a thumb drive and heading out the door. Today we have entire teams and sophisticated tools to prev More...
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If our tax forms are uploaded to It's Me 247, how will members who are not enrolled in eStatements receive their tax documents?
Regardless of whether a member is enrolled in eStatements, the member will receive a paper copy of their tax documents in the mail, provided they earned enough dividends (or paid enough interest) through the tax year to qualify for a tax form. The presentation of tax documents in the My Documents section of It's Me 247 is an additional convenience that makes the forms readily available online, often earlier than they are provided by via mail. If you are not currently offering this feat More...
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Our credit union has been asked to perform a member account verification (audit). What are the procedures for this process?
At some point during the year your credit union's audit firm may contact your credit union to perform a member account verification. This involves sending statements with a special message and unique return address, so that members respond to the auditing firm rather than the credit union directly. Here are some important tips to ensure your audit is successful: CU*Answers cannot change your credit union's return addresses on statements. CU*Answers uses custom statement envelopes for a More...
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If I activate Statement Style Fees, what happens on a month when a member gets only their credit card statement and not a regular account statement too?
Printed Statement Style fees are triggered only by production of a regular account statement (based on a file called STPRINT01, which is generated only with regular statements, not CC statements) . If a member gets only a credit card statement, they wouldn’t get a fee that particular month. If the next month they get both a credit card statement and a regular statement, then they would get a fee that time. (Note: We do always produce a year-end statement for every member, no matter wha More...
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When I reverse an NSF fee for a member, does that change the NSF history statistics as well?
No, those statistics are only updated when the original posting program charges a fee to the member. The idea behind this stats file is to record the member was NSF when the item originally came in, regardless of why. There may be several reasons why you reverse the fee, not all of which would mean the history should be changed. (For example, say the item came in NSF but the member had called and said his paycheck was coming tomorrow, so you gave him a break and reversed the fee. In this cas More...
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When a database table (file) is expanded or reformatted as part of a development project, what kinds of adjustments might need to be made on my custom Queries that use that table in the definition?
For things like expanded balance and transaction $ amounts, Query will automatically adapt to larger amounts, and you generally won’t need to do anything. (The only exception is if you send the output to a vendor, they’ll need to be made aware of the larger amounts. Or perhaps if your report is completely full side to side and you need to remove a column in order for everything to still fit across a printed page.) As far as dates, if a date was formerly 3 separate fields for year More...
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What is a “decay rate”?
The decay rate is an analytical term used to describe the manner in which non-maturity deposits (NMDs) run off or “mature” over time as members leave the institution for whatever reason—relocation, a job transfer, retirement, dissatisfaction with service, and so on. A decay rate of 25%, for example, means that 25% of the beginning balances in a particular account such as shares will be permanently withdrawn in the first year. In the second year 25% of the remaining balances will be withdrawn and More...
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What is the calculation to reconcile the suppressed statement count found in the Statement Reconciliation Dashboard (Tool #825)?
ABC Credit Union is trying to reconcile the number of suppressed statements on the Statement Reconcilation Analysis (dashboard). To do this, they need to add the number of statements that were not mailed, either because they were set to archive (see below) or because they had the wrong address flag checked. (Removing duplicate entries in both groups is also necessary.) In addition, they need to consider accounts that were closed in the statement period. Here is the math to reconcile the Le More...
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I have a member who is requesting a copy of his statement from November of last year. I went in to Phone Operator to see if I could get a copy for him, and noticed that a statement was not produced for November. Why is this?
The most likely reason is that the member did not have any activity for the month that would trigger a statement, based on the CU's configuration. Most credit unions have their statement configuration set up to print a monthly statement only if the member has a checking account, and only if there is activity on that account, saving postage costs on months when there is no activity. You can verify this by viewing his Share Draft Transaction Inquiry in Phone Operator, then compare that to yo More...
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When are AFTs posted by CU*Answers for its online credit unions?
The following applies only to online credit unions processed by CU*Answers. All times are approximate. Q: When are AFTs posted? A: CU*Answers processes auto-funds transfers 365 days a year, including Sundays and holidays. Depending on your credit union's configuration setting, this will either happen during end-of-day (EOD) processing at the end of the business day, or during beginning-of-day (BOD) processing at the beginning of the business day. For CU*Answers, EOD and BOD are typically r More...
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What Education does CU* Answers offer?
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...
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