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EDI 821 Financial Information Reporting

Functional Group FR

X12F Finance Subcommittee

This Draft Standard for Trial Use contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Financial Information Reporting Transaction Set (821) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used to report balances, detail and summary financial transactions, and other related account information. It can be used by financial institutions and their agents to report to their clients.

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Position
Segment
Name
Max use

  1. To indicate the start of a transaction set and to assign a control number

  2. To allow for positive identification of transaction set purpose.

  3. To specify pertinent dates and times

    At least one DTM segment, for period-ending date, must be used. Others are period-starting date, statement-issued (process) date, and transaction-creation date.

  4. To uniquely identify a transaction to an application.

  5. To identify a party by type of organization, name and code

    This N1 segment identifies the forwarder of this transaction. Where the forwarder and the financial institution identified in elements ENT02-04 are different entities, the use of this segment is recommended.

  6. To identify a person or office to whom administrative communications should be directed

    This PER segment identifies the administrative contact(s) of the forwarder of the transaction.

  7. To provide a free form format that would allow the transmission of text information.

Detail

Position
Segment
Name
Max use
  1. ENT Loop Mandatory
    Repeat >1

    1. To designate the entities which are parties to a transaction and specify a reference meaningful to those entities

      This ENT segment provides numeric identification of the originating financial institution and the receiving corporate entity, related to specific accounts.
    2. N1 Loop Optional
      Repeat 2

      1. To identify a party by type of organization, name and code

      2. To specify additional names or those longer than 35 characters in length

      3. To specify the location of the named party

      4. To specify the geographic place of the named party

      5. To identify a person or office to whom administrative communications should be directed

    3. ACT Loop Optional
      Repeat >1

      1. To specify account information.

      2. To specify the currency (dollars, pounds, francs, etc.) used in a transaction

      3. To provide a free form format that would allow the transmission of text information.

      4. BLN Loop Optional
        Repeat >1

        1. To provide specific balance information for financial account reporting

        2. To indicate the funds availability in days.

      5. TSU Loop Optional
        Repeat >1

        1. To provide specific transaction summary information

        2. To indicate the funds availability in days.

      6. FIR Loop Optional
        Repeat >1

        1. To specify the details of financial information transactions.

        2. To specify pertinent dates and times

        3. To specify identifying numbers.

        4. To provide a free form format that would allow the transmission of text information.

        5. To indicate the funds availability in days.

        6. To uniquely identify a transaction to an application.

        7. To identify a party by type of organization, name and code

        8. To indicate the total monetary amount.

        9. To specify pricing information

        10. To specify the earnings, rates and multipliers for this account.

Summary

Position
Segment
Name
Max use

  1. To indicate the end of the transaction set and provide the count of the transmitted segments (including the beginning (ST) and ending (SE) segments).

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