This situation could occur if your credit union charges a Service Charge fee to members who do not belong to a particular Marketing Club. If a member does not have funds to cover the Club dues at the time the dues are posted, this member's status in the Club is changed to P for pending. (This can be confirmed on the TCLUBFEE exception report.) When the Service Charge posting program is run, the member is then charged the Service Charge fee (since the member is not currently active   More...

The General Printer ID that is specified in Tool #326 CU Hardware Configuration does not control where screenshots are printed. The screen shot configuration needs to be changed on the virtual workstation device. Contact the network help desk for assistance. There should be 3 sessions per workstation (G0, G1, and G2). The screen shot printer can be modified here.

No. This is one of the transaction types that does not update the last transaction date. The idea here is to avoid automatic items that involve no member contact from stopping an account from becoming dormant. Fees such as this could be set up for years and might hide the fact that the member is not interacting with the credit union at all.

The PCLUBSTS daily report ( Club Members Suspended Based on Club Requirements ) displays this information. To find it, you can enter CU*Spy and input into the Report Name field the appropriate title and then search. You may also need to include additional date information before searching to find the desired report.

If the configuration has a rate of 0.000, Audio Banking will not read any message for that rate, even if one was originally recorded. For example, say you have requested a message to be recorded for item #9 on the configuration, but then you forget to go in and actually enter the rate into your configuration, or you accidentally delete the rate later. That recording will never be read to the member. Once you go in and enter a rate in position 9, then message #9 will be read along with that ra  More...

ISA (Foreign Conversion) Fees have two different calculations based on whether the transaction being processed is being done in US funds ('no conv' as displayed on BIN configuration screen) or will require a conversion from the 'foreign' country's currency to US funds (w/conv as displayed on BIN configuration screen) for processing. The way it is determined which fee should be calculated is within the 'transaction' message that your vendor sends to CU*BASE for process  More...

The system will advance the next payment due date depending on the payments made during the “payment period” window, which runs from due date to due date (which is not always calendar month). Once the next payment period begins, any payments made will count towards the payment amount due until it is fully satisfied, at which point the due date will advance to the next payment period. Payments may still be made during the current payment period; however, any overpayments will be c  More...

There are two primary reasons we charge this fee: Our belief that we should do our best to keep our fees down when credit unions do not earn. This is why, for example, It's Me 247 mobile web is offered free to our credit unions. It's also behind our constant pressure to reduce fees where CUs have no basis or belief they can charge for a defensive, relationship service. Charging for these services in this manner fund other areas where the direct expenses cannot easily be identified wi  More...

This flag governs the amount of payment required to advance the due date one frequency. If a CU sets this flag to Yes, only the scheduled payment is necessary to advance the due date. If a CU sets this flag to No, the scheduled payment and the amount of the fine will be necessary to advance the next due date one frequency.

If the member is delinquent (even by one day), the member is then in the next payment cycle (due date to due date). Therefore, if the member pays the regular payment amount, the loan will advance the date by one period, or by two periods if the amount of the delinquent payment is double the regular payment that is scheduled . For example, John Doe has a Overdraft Protection LOC account that is configured as single payment per period. At the end of September John is due for October 4. John does   More...

The following applies only to CUs that do NOT use the Text-To-Speech (TTS) engine for CU*Talk Audio Response. In order to read a rate message to a member in CU*Talk Audio Response, the system must find both a recorded message for that position and a rate greater than 0.000 on the corresponding position in your configuration (Tool #882 Update ARU Interest Rates ). For example, message #1 and rate #1 must both exist in order to read the rate message to the member. Remember that in order for mes  More...

Always use the Last Name (LNAME) field. This applies to all accounts. For example, Organizational, Trust, or MO accounts always use what is entered in the Last Name (LNAME) field. The Name ID field is not used.

Use of the Force Monthly Statement' option on the member's MASTER record will allow for member to receive a monthly statement instead of the quarterly/annual statement they may qualify for based on your overall statement configuration settings. Remember that this is intended to be used only in rare occasions where there are exceptions to your rules. If you find that your staff is setting this flag on frequently, you might need to (a) revisit your general configuration settings or (b)   More...

A single co-borrower name will automatically appear (if applicable) in the Account Information section of the mortgage statement. The co-borrower name is pulled from the Additional Signers (ADSL) table using the record with the lowest sequence number. Note: Only one name and address displays in the name/address section at the top of the statement.

The non-business days configuration, which includes Federal holidays, is used only when calculating the release dates on check holds placed at the teller line or elsewhere. It is not related to 7-day processing. NOTE: Holds are released according to the release date on the individual Uncollected Funds record, regardless of whether daily processing is run on Sunday or not. If an Uncollected Funds record has a release date that falls on a Sunday, the hold is released on Sunday. This will work t  More...

Yes, the share and certificate club rate benefits do add to Dividends Paid YTD. However, the loan interest rebate amounts do not affect the loan interest paid YTD amount. They are not savings dividends. They are a benefit that is accrued throughout the month based on the loan balance but paid to a savings account at end of month.

The transaction description is pulling in from the account suffix description and then uses the origin code and origin type to determine if it was a payment (i.e. ACH or AFT). Those are combined to create the transaction description that appears in the member's history. For example, if your loan product is 360 MORTGAGE and a payment is made, the transaction description might be 360 MORTG PAYMENT. You can use Tool #105 Account Suffix Configuration, choose a suffix and update the trans  More...

This comes from the Workstation Device Configuration in CU*BASE. To view or change this: Launch Tool #326 CU Hardware Configuration Select Terminal/Workstation In the list of workstations, locate the ID of the workstation you are looking up and double click on it (or just type the ID and press Enter) This will open up the terminal's configuration in CU*BASE. In the middle is the list of default printers where your documents will print: General Printer - this will be the printer to which a  More...

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...

There are two methods used to track delinquent loans for reporting purposes in CU*BASE: Method One (for Collections tracking) We have always tracked delinquency in two separate fields for “Months” and ‘Days” in the member files. When a loan is 30 days delinquent, it shows as “0 Months, 30 Days” delinquent. When a loan is 31 days delinquent, it is “1 Month, 0 Days” delinquent. A month is always considered 30 days regardless of the actual number o  More...

No, you do not have to automatically activate OLB or ARU for new memberships. Actually, you can default all new memberships to deactivate online banking and/or audio response access until the member specifically requests it. This is highly recommended as it helps to protect members who join the credit union but never get around to using your online tools right away. These accounts may be your most vulnerable since the member hasn't set up a private password or security questions. By deact  More...

Yes. There is an Amortization Default option available in each of your Loan Product Code configurations which allows credit unions to default amortization criteria such as: Delinquency Fine Code, Rate, Payment Frequency, # of Payments etc. The system will then default this value into the applicable fields when creating a new loan request. These defaults are intended to provide consistency for all new loan requests, but can be changed/edited during the loan request process if necessary.

There are two ways to accomplish this: The first way is to use the Marketing Opt-Out flags on the member's MASTER record. Introduced in the CU*BASE 9.2 release (August 2009), these are two flags that can be checked to exclude the member from third-party marketing communications and/or CU-related marketing commnunications. See the Opt Out link below to read more about the use of these flags. When creating a database file using Member Connect tools, or the CU*BASE List Generator, or even t  More...

When a device first connects to the iSeries, a virtual device is created - consider it a placeholder for that workstation or printer. Only one device can exist for each ID, which is why only one person can sign into a printer at a time. Throughout the virtual devices lifecycle, there are several different statuses that device can be in. Read below for some details! Workstations VARY ON PENDING - this is the default status of the virtual device. This status means the device is ready and wai  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...