Payment batches

A payment batch is a group of payments that have been received from customers.

Infor Public Sector uses payment batches for all bill payments, allowing you to track the payments as a group and review payment information before the payments are posted. After you create a payment batch, you can add customer payments using Receive Payment or Process Payments. You can also use Infor Public Sector Cashiering to add payments to batches.

The process of applying the payments in a payment batch to charges on customers' accounts is known as posting. You can use Post Payment Batches to post payment batches manually, and you can also set up a PostPaymentsRun task to post batches automatically in the Batch Manager.

Note: The word "batch" is used in two different senses here, so it is important to understand the distinction. A payment batch is a group of payments. Within the Batch Manager, the term is used in the traditional sense of batch processing.