Positive Pay guide

What is Positive Pay?

Positive Pay is a cheque-fraud-control workflow in which a business sends issued-cheque details to its bank so presented cheques can be compared with that record.

The basic workflow

  1. Your business creates an issued-cheque list from accounting or payment software.
  2. You convert it into the exact format used by the enrolled bank service.
  3. You upload it before the service’s applicable cutoff.
  4. You confirm the bank accepted the file and the expected number of issued items.
  5. The bank uses those registered details when processing presented cheques according to your service agreement.

Why the exact format matters

Bank services use specific record widths, field positions, encodings, filenames, and account identifiers. A file that looks readable can still be rejected or interpreted incorrectly. This generator therefore enables one exact service/version at a time and blocks unsupported operations or characters rather than guessing.

What this tool does—and does not do

It converts supported local CSV or Excel data into the enabled National Bank ISSUE format. It does not enroll your account, upload to the bank, guarantee acceptance, or replace the bank portal’s accepted-file confirmation.