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Positive Pay guide

What is Positive Pay?

Positive Pay is a cheque-fraud-control workflow in which a business provides issued-cheque details through its enrolled bank service.

The basic workflow

  1. Your business creates an issued-cheque list from accounting or payment software.
  2. You prepare it for the exact bank service and setup your business uses.
  3. You review the cheque count, dates, amounts, numbers, and payees.
  4. You download the prepared file and keep it unchanged for your usual bank workflow.

Why the exact service matters

Bank services can have different setup requirements even within the same bank. The generator therefore asks you to choose the supported service explicitly and blocks unsupported operations or incompatible values rather than guessing.

What this tool does

It converts supported local CSV or Excel data into normal ISSUE files for the displayed National Bank, Scotiabank, and TD services. It does not enroll accounts or transmit generated files to a bank.