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Ebury via SFTP

Exchange information with Ebury directly from your ERP via SFTP.

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Written by Jigna Shah

Would you like to send Ebury your payment instructions directly from your ERP or TMS, or automatically push your end-of-day bank statement to your ERP or TMS for reconciliation purposes, but you don’t see your ERP/TMS in our software integrations list?

We recommend that you explore connectivity to Ebury via SFTP. We have successfully implemented SFTP-based communication with SAP, Coupa, Kyriba and many others.

What is SFTP?

A Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) is a safe network channel to send and receive large volumes of information. With SFTP, you can securely send payment instructions generated by the ERP directly to Ebury and receive statements from Ebury.

Benefits of using SFTP with Ebury

Optimise your workflows from ERP and make reconciliation and payment initiations a breeze.

Secure

Only authorised people can access the file transfer system with certificate-based authentication.

Efficient

Automate payables and receivables reconciliation into your existing ERP by uploading ready-to-use statements, saving time and hassle from data entry.

Reliable

Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the data being transferred.

How to get access to SFTP

If you are already an Ebury client, speak to your Client Portfolio Manager to learn more about it and the steps to access it.

Step 1

Ensure that you already are an active Ebury client and that you have an active Client ID.

Step 2

You must sign our SFTP Terms and Conditions, provided by your Client Portfolio Manager, in order to instruct payments and collect statements using this channel.

Step 3

You may need to pay a SFTP connection fee to set up your account.

  • One time set up fee per account: 150 EUR

  • Monthly subscription fees: 40 EUR

Step 4

We will need to know the following contact details. Our experts will then reach out to your team to set up and test the connection and support you through the process until Go Live.

  • Your SFTP technical contact: The technical specialist responsible for the SFTP connection setup.

  • Client contact: The key user on your side who will be responsible for the file transfer. Example, the user will receive notifications about file transfer issues like file expired for downloading, etc.

Which formats are supported

  • Send your payment instructions to Ebury in ISO20022 standard PAIN001 format.

  • Receive EoD statements from Ebury, either as SWIFT standard MT940 or ISO20022 standard CAMT053.

File descriptions for payment files

We allow payment files based on the file format for the pain.001.001.03 (CustomerCreditTransferInitiation) under the ISO 20022 standard in Ebury

You can obtain full details on the following link.

File descriptions for statement files

SFTP service allow you to retrieve the following file formats:

  • STA: to retrieve SWIFT MT940 statements

  • C53: to retrieve ISO camt.053 statements

Example of theses formats can be found here.

Getting started

If you are not an Ebury client but want to learn more about SFTP and how Ebury can help you transmit files securely from your ERP, feel free to contact our team.

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