File Duplication Settings

Introduction

File duplication settings control how a workflow or mapping tracks files that it has already processed. The aim is to allow Paygate to, optionally, prevent the processing a payment file that has already been processed. The duplication functionality that Workflow and Mapping uses is independent of other duplication checking that Paygate uses.

Duplication Configuration

Enable Duplication Checking

This setting controls whether the Mapping and Workflow duplication setting is enabled or disabled. When disabled, no attempt will be made by the Mapping or Workflow engine to check for duplicate payment files.

Duplication Criteria

The Duplication criteria sets how Paygate determines if a payment file is a duplicate or not.

Duplicate Filename

When enabled Paygate will view two files with the same filename as duplicates even if they contain completely different data. You should use this setting if the name of your files is unique such as payroll_June_2020.txt as trying to process a file with this name twice is almost certainly a mistake. If you tend to use the same filename for each payment run such as payroll.csv then you should disable this setting as it is likely that Paygate will flag the file as a duplicate and refuse to process it.

Duplicate File Content

When enabled Paygate will view two files with the same content as duplicates.

There are occasions when two payments runs can contain the same data. An example of this is payroll in a small company. You can combine this check with the duplicate filename check to prevent Paygate from marking such payment files incorrectly.

Ignore older duplicate files

This setting determines how Paygate treats older files when checking for duplicates. By default the age of the files are not taken into consideration when Paygate tries to determine if two files are the same. You can change this behaviour by enabling ‘Ignore older duplicate files’. Setting this to enabled with a value of 30 days will prevent duplicates within the 30 days window but any files older than 30 days will not be considered when checking for duplicates.