Pay a Premium Payable Statement

This action launches the Add a Disbursement workflow and updates the statement’s Suspended status to Finalized.  

Note: This action cannot be used to pay statements with a Reversed status of Processing, Failed, or Reversed.

If the Journal Entry Approval Process is enabled, only journal entries with an Approved or System Approved status affect General Ledger balances and display on reconciliation screens. Journal entries with a Working, Submitted, or Rejected status are excluded.

  1. Access the Reconciliations area.

  2. Click Premium Payable under Reconciliations on the navigation panel.

  3. The Premium Payable Reconciliations screen displays. Enter your desired search criteria to populate the list.

    Click here for an explanation of reconciliation statuses.

  1. Click the statement in the list and then do one of the following:

    Note: No actions can be performed on statements that contain archived transactions.

  2. You are prompted, "Do you wish to pay this statement immediately?" Click Yes.
  3. The Add Disbursement window displays. Select the Bank account.
  4. The Effective date, Accounting month, and Description default but can be updated if necessary.
  5. Information in the Pay to the Order of section defaults but can be changed if necessary.
  6. In the Check section, select the Print checkbox if you want to print a check. If a check has already been printed, deselect the Print checkbox and enter the Check #.
  7. If you selected Print, the Include check stub detail option is selected by default. Deselect this checkbox if you want to print the check only, with no supporting detail.
  8. Optionally enter a Memo and/or Remittance.
  9. In the Routing field, optionally enter any information dictating where the check should be sent (for example, if it should go to another employee before being mailed to the payee).
  10. Use the Comments field to type any additional information that you want to print on the check stub.
  11. Click Continue or press [Enter] to continue the workflow.

    Click Cancel to exit the workflow without paying the statement.
  12. Detail for the disbursement displays. Optionally choose a Schedule.
  13. Enter an Invoice date, or click the down arrow to the right of the field to select a date from the dropdown calendar.
  14. Enter an Invoice # if known.
  15. Enter a P.O. Box # if applicable.
  16. The Description defaults but can be changed if necessary.
  17. Nothing else on this screen can be edited.
  18. To add another line to this disbursement, click the Add button to the left of the list and fill in the fields below the list.

    Note:
    If you add another line and select an Agency not associated to the selected bank account, a warning message displays: "Agency associated to this statement is not associated with the selected bank account.  Do you wish to continue and generate interagency journal entries?" Click Yes to use the selected agency to perform inter-company payments, or No to choose another.
  19. Click Finish or press [Enter] to complete the workflow.

    Click Add to finish this payment and to immediately process another payment.

    Click Cancel or press [Esc] to close the window without paying the statement.