Yes, the general ledger entry will post automatically in end-of-day processing. Account Maintenance can be used to change the dividend application for member accounts based on the product parameters. For example, a Student Checking may have an age maximum at which point the checking account may need to move the credit union's regular checking product offering. If the Dividend Application configuration have the same suffix range, there is no need to order new checks, change any ACH or Payroll  More...

Yes. You can pull a credit report for any service using the online credit bureau process. Using Tool #53 Process Member Applications, use action code CR to pull the report without creating a loan request and application. We can then create Member Services denial notices for debit cards, checking accounts, ATM cards, etc.

If you or your member notice an account is not being updated (or the additional signer on a loan) you should first try to find out if the loan/additional signer was included in the file sent over to the bureau. You can do this for the most recent reporting cycle by running Tool #658 Print Loan Info Sent to Credit Bureau . If the member loan/additional signer information (defined by METRO 2 as the J1 segment or J2 Segment) is present in that file you need to look further into the following types  More...

The Closed Account Report and the Closed Membership Report have two versions. LCLACE and LCLMBE are the daily reports that run at EOD. These reports show closed accounts and closed memberships for a single day. LCLAC and LCLMB are the reports that are run from the CU*BASE menu and via Report Automation, and these show closed accounts and closed memberships for a given month.

Here is a more efficient method to discover the account number you’re looking for than searching through actual receipts: Access the Teller Audit dashboard via the Drawer Control/Audit button in Teller Posting. Look for the in-house check you posted and use the Show Alternate View button so you can see the Receipt ID (appears in the second column). Look at the other transactions under that same Receipt ID (there’s a field you can use to filter by this ID). At least one of the other  More...

For this use Tool #218 Closed Membership Report . This provides a listing of each of the memberships that were closed, along with the specific closed account reason code for each. If you do not want to print a report, but would like to use the information, you can select to Export To File, choose Account Detail for Query, and then you can download the resulting file onto your PC and into an Excel spreadsheet using Tool #1375 Data Transfers (Upload or Download) . NOTE: This report pulls the   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...

This is a quirk due to how we store reason codes at the membership level as well as for each specific account suffix. Remember that memberships all have a base share account using suffix -000. Some reports that focus on account details use the code from the base share -000 account, while others that focus on memberships may use the one on the membership (MASTER) record instead. Refer to the related links below for more details about how these are stored and updated.

Trust accounts can be set up as either individual or organizational depending on the legal nature of the trust. Following are recommendations for handling situations when a member wants to set up a membership where the primary member and the first joint owner are, in essence, the same person. This happens most often for trust accounts. Currently in CU*BASE there are two ways to handle trusts: For trusts that use a person’s SSN (where you do not have a separate TIN for the trust), set up th  More...

In a nutshell, you will set up a Membership Designation Code for Representative Payee, with the label for primary name set to Beneficiary and the label for the joint owner name set to Rep Payee. Then the procedure is to open the membership in the beneficiary's name and SSN, then put the representative payee's SSN as the joint owner (type J secondary name link). TIPS: Remember that in CU*BASE the words joint owner simply are used to describe a particular record type in the Se  More...

To change a membership from individual to organizational (or vice versa): Launch Tool #3 Open/Maintain Memberships/Accts” Enter the account base and click Update Membership/Account Info Check the Membership information flag (if you also need to do joint owner maintenance, you can check that flag now as well), then press Enter or click Go to proceed Click Unlock Fields Click Chg to Orgn or Chg to Indv Click the lookup button next to the Designation field and choose the appropriate designat  More...

When a credit union statuses a member's card as 'HOT' or warm (Lost/Stolen/Fraud/Restricted), this information is transmitted immediately to your vendor to stop any further withdrawals/purchases being performed with that particular card. But at your vendor a 'Hot Card' is not considered to be a closed card. When your member's card remains at a HOT or Warm card status on CU*BASE, CU*BASE is still required to send any maintenance updates such as address change, phone numbe  More...

Beginning with the 16.10 release you can schedule recurring AFTs with accounts that are not on CU*BASE. This includes accounts that are set up with the CU*BASE Account to Account (A2A) feature and the CU*BASE “Off Trial Balance” (OTB) feature. AFTs with these accounts are reported in separate reports. Use the TATA2A1 and TATA2A2 reports to monitor AFT transactions to and from A2A accounts. Use the TATOTB1 and TATOTB2 reports to monitor AFT transactions to OTB accounts. Learn more  More...

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...

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...

IMPORTANT NOTE: When It’s Me 247 was updated in 2021, the “See” option shown on here was made unavailable. There are two major points to consider when thinking about allowing members to see information beyond the account to which they are actually logged in. Both extend beyond online banking to consider a financial institution’s role and responsibility in protecting member private data via all access channels, from the teller line to a back office employee answering   More...

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...

Tool # 868 Transaction Override Report allows you to create a report that shows when a transaction override was performed on an account that was frozen, had secured or uncollected funds, as well as transaction overrides to par value (below minimum). This report was added to the Report Scheduler feature with the 15.3 CU*BASE release in December 2015. It is easy to use the Report Scheduler tool to archive monthly reports. Just enter the filter screen and make your selection of which type of ove  More...

Contact a CSR for assistance with this issue. The impact of the solution may vary from situation to situation.

You can use the “Print CU Checks” feature to cut a check to any vendor, including vendors that have been configured in your CU*BASE Vendor database, without creating an invoice record, if you wish. If you want that item to show up in the vendor's history (and update their YTD amount paid for the current year only ), you will need to perform a separate step to add the record manually. Here are the steps: Step 1: Printing a Quick A/P Check In a nutshell, you will be using Tool   More...

Dormancy on a membership considers the entire membership, so any activity on any of the sub-accounts will suspend it from dormancy. If there is more than one account with recent activity, all accounts would need to be adjusted to remain in dormancy. Make sure the Last contacted date hasn't been changed on the member's account. This is used to record when a member contacts the CU about keeping their account active, without performing an actual transaction. (Use Tool #15 Update Members  More...

By using the CU*BASE Account Security feature. This can be done by assigning special Employee Type codes to all employee accounts (see the online help topic below for more information), or by simply changing the account security settings for that particular employee. This can be done only by an authorized security administrator at your credit union. In CU*BASE, launch Tool #327 CU*BASE Employee Security Select the ID for the employee whose access you'd like to adjust and choose Update ac  More...

The freeze codes themselves are designed when you want to control the member's access to the funds in his or her account. But if you want to control whether an employee can access or post transactions on a particular membership, you should check into Employee Account Security and/or Employee Type Codes . These can stop a member from making a transaction at the teller line until the appropriate employee could give access to the account, but wouldn’t stop the member from using self  More...

In order to determine whether or not the minus sign should be removed from an item, the system looks at the G/L account itself to determine whether it is an asset, liability, income, or expense. However, for line items that represent totals of multiple accounts, the system does not have a single G/L account to look at to determine whether or not to hide the minus sign. This particularly affects items that were configured using total codes B (Bypass/Accumulate) and P (Print Bypassed Total) and   More...

Yes. On the day a share account type is closed, the record is flagged to move to the closed file when the nightly process is performed. The system will not allow the same 3 digit suffix to be opened during that day (while it is waiting for the nightly process). However, there are times when account types are closed in error. CU*BASE provides Tool #711 Re-Open Accounts/Memberships Same Day to remove that closed flag. If the account was closed on a previous day then the normal Open Accounts pro  More...