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...

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...

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.

No. CU*BASE accounts payable payments made via ACH do not pay any attention to any limits entered in CU*BASE via Tool #569: Online/Mobile/Text Banking VMS Config > A2A Transfers . However, all ACH transactions that we send to Magic-Wrighter on your behalf, whether for a member or via the accounts payable system, are considered part of the same pool of transactions to which Magic-Wrighter's daily limits DO apply. Therefore, if your credit union gets a failure-to-process error on a large  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...

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...

Beginning with the 22.10 release, implemented on October 9, the date that is used on the check and that appears in accounts payable history is the date the invoice is paid. This is also the date that is used for the G/L entry. This is the date that the payment is processed via Tool #1961 “Process Accounts Payable Payments ”.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

The dormancy tool does not do this, although it is possible to create automated transfer (AFT) records to move funds from member accounts according to whatever policies and procedures your credit union wants to use. Keep in mind that our dormany and escheat monitoring system works at the entire membership level, not individual accounts (in other words, it's about membership dormancy, not account inactivity). Likewise, when the system uses your escheat settings to flag an account as escheat  More...

Launch Tool # 985 Work Dormant Members . To remove a member account from the Dormancy Listing, highlight the member account number and choose the 'Reinstate' action code from the bottom of the account list. A confirmation screen will appear to confirm this deletion from the dormancy listing. In addition to updating the dormancy status, you can also update the last contact date on this screen. Press Enter to confirm and reinstate the member account. To exit the Dormancy maintenance s  More...

In one of three ways: Note: The term 'subscriber' refers to your 'member'. Electronic Payments (ACH) - Fiserv's preference is to send all payments electronically. However in the Risk Model format it is not always feasible. Fiserv submits the merchant payment (via the fed) from a Fiserv settlement account the same day we submit the debit (via the fed) to the subscriber account. Fiserv is taking the risk on the payment. Electronic payments are typically sent when the subscr  More...

With the new Membership Designations system released as part of the Fall 2005 release, the old custodial flag has been made obsolete. When your data is converted for the release, all individual accounts that were tagged as custodial accounts will be flagged with a Membership Designation of CS. The primary member's name will be labeled as Minor and any joint owner names will be labeled as Custodian (labels appear on various inquiry screens in place of the generic Name or Joint Owne  More...

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...