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Electronic Reporting to FINTRAC: Batch
Batch acceptance process
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Connectivity Test and Test Channel |
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After you have downloaded
the ViaSafe software, contact our service desk at
1-866-346-8722 or
tech@fintrac.gc.ca
for us to open a test channel for you.
If you have never conducted a connectivity test with
FINTRAC you will be required to do so. The objective of
the connectivity test is to confirm that data is flowing
correctly from your organization to ours. To do this
connectivity test simply create a .txt file in notepad
containing the following: "We have sent this file to
FINTRAC". This file needs to be sent to us through the
ViaSafe application using the ASCII Pilot Channel. To
learn how to send files through ViaSafe see the PDF
document
PKI
Reporting Guide .
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| 2. |
Test
Batch Files |
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Before you can start
submitting real reports to FINTRAC by batch, you have to
send in a minimum of five test batch files. You will
have completed the acceptance process when at least four
of your last five test files are free of formatting
errors. You have to go through this acceptance process
for each report type that you will be submitting by
batch.
Please refer to the appropriate FINTRAC's
Specifications
document to find instructions on how to build a batch
file for each report type.
The test file size limit is 50KB. Any larger test
files will be ignored by FINTRAC's servers. Each one of
the five test batches has to have at least 25 and no
more than 100 test reports within them.
Once you have sent your five test batch files please
contact us at 1-866-346-8722 or
tech@fintrac.gc.ca
to let us know that you have sent the test files. Please
do not send any more batches until we contact you.
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| 3. |
Acknowledgment Messages |
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You should receive
acknowledgment messages from FINTRAC about your test
files within hours of sending them. These will
appear in your inbound channel to provide you with
information about the results of processing for your
test batches. Each acknowledgement will have the same
name as the original file that you sent to FINTRAC, with
a different extension, as explained in FINTRAC's
specifications documents. If there are formatting
errors in your test files, you will have to correct and
resubmit them. The acceptance process is not complete
until at least four of the last five test files
submitted are free of formatting errors.
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| 4. |
Production Batch Channel |
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Once you have successfully
completed the acceptance process, FINTRAC will notify
you and a production batch channel will be opened in
ViaSafe for the report type. |
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