What is New in SEPA-Transfer?

• After the installation, you can now take a look at our introductory page for hints and videos on how to get started with SEPA-Transfer more easily.
• When selecting English as a language at the beginning of the installation, all print templates are now also in English as well.
• Several improvements in the user guidance of the window for selecting and editing templates.
• Improved detection of transfer data in the clipboard. More cases with transaction data or IBANs are now detected when using the "Paste from clipboard" button.
• The command line option -command account -name Accountname now persists the current account permanently.
• Other minor corrections and improvements have been made

01 June 2022

• In the past weeks, some customers contacted us and had difficulties with the export to the SEPA XML format, which was due to the outdated SEPA 2.x version. To fix this problem, we are raising the SEPA version in the settings from SEPA 2.x to SEPA 3.x. If you export files for a legacy system that only supports the deprecated SEPA 2.x, please check and change this setting.
• The window that displays the account transactions now saves its position and size.
• The library for online banking has been updated.
• The valid characters for an account name have been extended by the characters + ? / - : ( ) . , '.
• A possible error when restoring a saved database has been fixed.
• Account transactions: When pressing the "Refresh" button several times, it could happen that turnovers were inserted twice. If you are affected by the problem, use this version to reload the turnovers for the affected period to remove the duplicates.
• Changes in the issue date of a mandate in the main window is now correctly applied to the mandate.
• A problem with creating multiple direct debits from templates that have the same mandate reference has been fixed.
• Creating a template without IBAN no longer causes an error message.
• Numerous minor corrections and improvements have been made.

27 April 2022

• The library for online banking was updated.
• Errors during the migration of the old templates were fixed, e.g. when they were missing the name or IBAN.
• An error that could occur when updating from an older version (V10.3 or earlier) has been fixed.
• A possible freezing of the application at startup has been fixed.
• A display error for the issue date of mandates in the main window has been fixed.
• Migration of templates to the new format was sometimes performed multiple times, which resulted in duplication of templates. This problem is now fixed.
• A display error when importing an address with an invalid IBAN has been fixed.
• Other minor corrections and improvements have been made.

15 February 2022

• A database error due to duplicate mandate references, which could lead to a crash when starting SEPA Transfer, has been fixed.

23 December 2021

• Fixed a possible error when converting the old templates to the new format.

21 December 2021

• The management of the templates for transfers and direct debits has been completely revised and improved: Templates can now be edited and there can be multiple templates for one IBAN. In addition, the templates of all accounts can now optionally be displayed, not only the active one.
• The import now remembers all mapped columns regardless of the file name and will re-suggest the mapping in future imports.
• It is now possible to import addresses that belong to the respective IBAN.
• With the command line parameter "-DebitType b2b" it is now possible to change the type of direct debits of the active account to B2B direct debits. (Enterprise Edition only)
• The command line parameter "-Send" may now be used with the switch "-NoGUI". The dialogs required for entering the PIN and TAN are still displayed in this case, but otherwise no windows will be displayed. (Enterprise Edition only)
• The account transactions have been extended by the column "Booking type". This column contains the information whether the transaction is a credit or debit. The values displayed here origin from your bank.
• The purpose of a direct debit is now printed on the mandates.
• After creating and saving a direct debit, a button now appears temporarily in the main ribbon to print a mandate for this direct debit.
• When creating direct debits from mandates in the mandate management, you are now asked for the purpose text that should be used.
• It is now possible in the mandate management to create new direct debits from mandates that were previously used in another account.
• The start line number of the CSV and Excel import is now set to the number of the first, non-empty line.
• In case of failed online banking transactions, a more detailed feedback from the bank is now displayed.
• Bugfix: When exporting a SEPA file, it could happen that a warning about overwriting an existing file was not displayed. This has been corrected. This warning can be deactivated in the dialog itself.
• Invalid characters can now no longer be entered in the purpose.
• Various minor corrections and improvements have been made.

Changed compatibilities

16 December 2021

• A more modern protocol is used to retrieve account transactions via online banking, to the extent that this is supported by the bank. This improves the presentation of the turnover display
• The display of error messages in case of a failed account balance retrieval has been improved.
• Fixed an error in online banking with a few banks that prevented the sending of entries.

4 May 2021

• If online banking fails, a more detailed feedback from the bank is now displayed. 
• If an error occurs during online banking, there is now a new button that allows you to search our knowledge base for the error message. 
• After the discount calculation, the application now automatically navigates to the "Edit" ribbon bar. 
• Account activities: After changing the active account, the account activities of the selected account are  displayed again. 
• The line selection during import matches again with the displayed line in the file. 
• The discount dialog now allows the entry of lower-case letters, just like the purpose text. An error that occurred when filtering the mandates via the search field has been fixed. 
• The import now supports other encodings besides ANSI, for example UTF-8. 
• Entering an address for Monaco no longer results in an error. 
• Account activities: Unnecessary spaces were inserted in the purpose text for some banks. This problem has been solved. 
• Various minor corrections and improvements have been made. 

19 April 2021

• The issue date and expiration date of mandates can now be changed in the mandate manager.
• When importing via command line using -COMMAND Import, the import wizard is now only displayed if the ‑ShowWizard parameter was specified. This was done by popular request to better automate imports. This way, there is no longer a need to click to import. Customers who prefer the original behavior where the import wizard pops up on the last page must append ‑ShowWizard to the end of the command line. (Enterprise Edition only)
• The name and amount of a mandate are now filled with the data of a booking, if these values were not set before.
• If a mandate is printed, the name and amount will again, like in V10.3, be used from the currently visible booking, and not from the mandate.
• An error that prevented a downgrade to a previous version has been fixed.
• When creating a new direct debit by reading in a girocard / debit-card, the name is taken over again into the printed mandate, if there were already direct debits with the same account number.
• Some small corrections and improvements

25 January 2021

• The main form has been visually modernized and scaling on high-resolution monitors has been further improved.
• The icons in the user interface have been visually modernized. They now also scale better on high-resolution monitors.
• The feature that allows you to paste bookings from the clipboard has been improved and now recognizes even more data.
• The start time has been accelerated.
• The IBAN is now shown in the account transactions.
• It is now possible to export the account transactions to a file via the command line. Use the command line parameter -command activities together with -startdate and -enddate. Optionally, specify the -fetch command line parameter to update the previous account transactions beforehand. This last parameter usually requires entering the PIN and, in some cases, a TAN. (Enterprise Edition only)
• For a mandate, an amount can now be stored optionally as well.
• IBAN, name, amount and address are now changeable in the mandate management.
• Henceforth, payments to/from the UK will be treated the same as payments to/from other non-EU countries.
• A transaction list may now not only be printed, but additionally be exported as a PDF file.
• A rare error that could occur when retrieving account activities, whose supplied values were larger than specified in the SEPA specification, has been fixed.
• Address data for direct debits to countries outside the European payment area can now also be exported for older SEPA file format versions.
• An error that could occur when importing a SEPA Purpose Code that was too long has been fixed.
• Importing IBANs with blanks at the end no longer results in an error.
• Various minor corrections and improvements have been made.

11 January 2021

• In the Import Wizard, up to 140 characters can now be used when using a fixed value for the purpose.
• The online banking component has been updated.
• An error that could occur when right clicking twice in the booking list has been fixed.
• A rare database error that could occur when updating from v10.2 to v10.3 has been fixed.
• An incorrectly entered online banking PIN is now no longer saved for the session.
• Percent signs are now saved correctly in the templates.
• Larger amounts are no longer cut off on the left side in the printed transaction list. When printing mandates, the amount and type of the mandate are now displayed correctly again.
• "Validate and save" now only prints the mandate for the currently selected direct debit and no longer all mandates in case the setting "Print SEPA Direct Debit Mandate immediately" is activated.
• The option for automatic reading of debit cards / Girocards in the settings dialog is now saved correctly again.

22 May 2020

• A large input area is now used for the purpose instead of several individual lines. This better takes into account the fact that the SEPA standard only provides a single text field without line breaks for the purpose.
• The Enterprise Edition now supports all SEPA purpose codes instead of only salary payments and capital-forming benefits. These codes, consisting of 4 letters, can optionally be entered in a transaction.
• Online banking transactions can now be sent individually within a transfer. That way, they are always listed as single items in the account activities. However, a separate TAN is potentially required for each posting. To achieve this, set the value for the maximum number of postings to "1" under "Settings > Advanced > Bank-Specific Settings". This option is only available in the Enterprise Edition.
• The user interface of SEPA-Transfer is now also available in an English translation. To use it, select "English" at the beginning of the installation.
• It is now possible to copy bookings to the clipboard using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+C.
• The settings dialog of SEPA-Transfer can now be searched via a small text field in the upper right corner.
• Colons in the name, the purpose or the end-to-end ID are now preserved during import.
• The online banking component has been updated. A problem with retrieving the account balance after transferring bookings has been fixed for certain banks.
• The "Print" dialogs now save the last selected number of copies.
• When importing direct debits, the IBAN can now be determined based on the mandate reference and no longer needs to be included in the imported file.
• Support for high-resolution monitors in multi-monitor mode has been improved.
• Selecting an execution date in the past no longer causes an error.
• In rare cases, the online banking function could not be activated. This has been fixed.
• When doing online banking with a chip card, an error message is now displayed if the card reader is not connected or there is no card in the card reader.
• The duration of the program startup for large databases has been significantly improved.
• The error message when HBCI/FinTS business transactions are not supported by the current account or the account-holding bank has been improved.
• It is now possible to print a direct debit mandate for the currently selected direct debit or for all open direct debits.
• When printing SEPA mandates, the type of mandate (recurring or single) is now correctly marked.
• If the option "Do not import" is set for the execution date during import, no longer an error is displayed after the import for invalid dates.
• The export of DTA/DTAUS files is no longer supported in v10.3 and higher. If you still need this feature, we recommend to stay with v10.2.9.
• Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 R1 is no longer supported in this version. If you still need this feature, please stay with version 10.2.9. Furthermore, the .Net Framework v4.7.2 or higher is required. Typically, this will already be installed on your system via Windows Update.
• Other minor improvements and corrections have been made.

27 April 2020

• The button labels in the transactions overview were reversed and corrected.
• For direct debits and transfers to Monaco, it is now also possible to enter addresses in accordance with the EU Money Transfer Regulation.
• The new SEPA Transfer database now filters out line breaks that some banks have included in their account transactions and no longer stores them in the SEPA Transfer database. This ensures a better formatting of the account transactions in the program and the exported files.
• The online banking library has been updated and contains minor bug fixes and adjustments to recent changes made by some banks. The name of the Postbank user ID has been corrected in PostbankID#Profile.

25 October 2019

• Support for high-resolution monitors in multi-monitor mode has been improved.
• SEPA XML files can now also be imported if individual mandatory details such as the intended use are missing during postings.
• The library for online banking has been updated and fixes minor problems with Commerzbank, Norisbank and various TAN procedures.

10 October 2019

• SEPA Transfer is now compatible with Postbank's new online banking requirements, which have been in use since September 8, 2019.
• Bugfix: After exporting the transactions to a CSV file, they are displayed correctly again.

12 September 2019

• The FinTS registration number and the product version are now also transmitted during synchronization.
• The online banking component DDBAC has been updated to version 5.7.46.0.
• When adding a booking via the command line, the date of issue of the mandate can now also be set. The new parameter MandateSignatureDate is available for this purpose.
• In online banking, the BIC defined in the SEPA Transfer settings is now always transmitted for the own account. Previously, the BIC that was stored in the settings of the online banking component DDBAC was transmitted.

13 August 2019

• The FinTS registration number and the product version will now be transmitted at the beginning of an online banking session.
• SEPA XML files can now also be imported if individual details are missing during bookings.
• The error message for unsupported HBCI/FinTS transactions has been improved.
• The SEPA Sender additional application has been removed. All functions are still available in SEPA-Transfer itself.
• Crashed when exporting direct debits for an account in a European Economic Area (EEA) country if the account had an address in a non-EEA country. This bug has been fixed.
• The optional ChrgBr element is now included in exported SEPA XML files. It has the only allowed value "SLEV".

29 July 2019

• SEPA Transfer now uses the correct UTF-8 encoding again when exporting SEPA XML files.
• An error when printing the booking list has been fixed.

26 June 2019

• Negative account balances are now correctly displayed as being negative again.
• In rare cases, the online banking function could not be activated. This has been fixed.
• Address information for direct debits from other EU countries is now sent in full.
• A problem with the retrieval of the account balance after the transmission of bookings to the Hamburger Sparkasse has been fixed.
• An error with the same user IDs from different banks has been fixed.
• Problems could occur when setting up online banking access if a customer ID was entered in addition to the user ID. This bug has been fixed.
• The end of the bank working day and the additional days to be added to the execution date are now only taken into account for direct debits. These were previously incorrectly taken into account for transfers as well.
• After the export, the Excel protocol now also contains addresses, if available (Enterprise Edition only).
• The import of a password-protected access database now works if the correct password has been entered (Enterprise Edition only).
• Entering a new purpose while the old text is selected now works as expected, i.e. the selected text is replaced by the new one.

14 June 2019

• The online banking component has been updated.
• In rare cases, the online banking function could not be activated. This has been fixed.
• Under certain circumstances, bookings remained in the list of open bookings even though they had been transmitted to the bank via online banking. The bookings are now correctly moved into the history.
• In some cases, the program crashed during online banking. A constructive error message is now displayed here.
• The address of a debtor outside the European Economic Area may not have been taken into account during export.
• It is now possible to import read-only SEPA XML files again.

08 April 2019

• This version of SEPA-Transfer is the last one that can be installed under Windows Vista.
• Sporadic errors with the configuration of the online banking and with the connection establishment were fixed.
• Printing templates have been adjusted based on feedback.
• Several open bookings can now be moved together to the booking history.
• It is now pointed out at program start that the DTA export and the support of so-called DTA accounts with version 11.0 is omitted.
• The booking overview is now printed again with the correct total.
• Addresses are now also transmitted correctly during online transmission. This is relevant for transfers to or direct debits from non-EU countries from 1,000 euros. (EU Money Transfer Regulation)

19 February 2019

• SEPA Transfer can now also import SEPA XML files in which a currency other than the Euro is used. This concerns e.g. Swiss francs, British pounds or Danish crowns. All permitted currencies can also be selected for each account to export SEPA XML files with a currency other than Euro.
• SEPA-Transfer can now permanently store account transactions retrieved from your bank. For a better overview, a time interval can be specified to retrieve and display the transactions. SEPA Transfer can also be configured to retrieve and store transactions on your computer in the background each time a transaction is transferred to your bank.
• In the turnover display, filters can be configured for all columns, e.g. to display only bookings with a certain value and in a specified period.
• The transactions stored in SEPA-Transfer can now be printed out.
• Some adjustments have been made to comply with the EU Money Transfer Regulation:
  • In the case of direct debits from the following countries, the address of the payer must be specified if the value exceeds €1000: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, San Marino, Switzerland.
  • For transfers from one of the above-mentioned countries to the EU or another country specified in the regulation, the address of the sender must be stated if the value exceeds 1000€.
• The online banking component has been updated and modernised.
• Most password-protected Excel files can now be imported.
• SEPA-Transfer contains the search bar known from Office programs to find functions.
• The dialog for displaying the flicker code when using the optical TAN procedure now contains information that can be entered into the generator if the code cannot be read by the generator.
• When transferring bookings via HBCI/FinTS, the user ID to be used can be selected if several have been previously configured (Enterprise Edition only).
• With the command WaitForCommands SEPA-Transfer can be started and waits then in the background for further commands, e.g. for import and export of files, in order to accelerate the execution of several commands (Enterprise Edition only).
• The import of accounting templates from e.g. Excel or SEPA files is possible via the button "Save as template".
• Frequently used functions can be called up directly via a dialog after the import and export.
• The Import Wizard now starts the import directly as soon as the last setting has been configured.
• SEPA-Transfer installs the .NET Framework 4.0 if required.
• A rare error when saving the password for exporting ZIP files has been fixed. If in doubt, re-enter the password.
• The Excel log file that can be activated during SEPA export now contains IBAN and BIC instead of account number and bank sort code (Enterprise Edition only).
• The display on high-resolution monitors has been improved.
• Mandate references from direct debit templates are also used for old templates where possible.
• An error when starting SEPA transfer on systems without printers has been fixed.
• An error when entering an invalid German creditor ID has been fixed.
• The print templates for mandates and transfers have been revised. In the course of this the editor for print templates was removed. The text for SEPA Direct Debit Mandates can instead be changed in the settings, if desired. Print templates edited with an older version can no longer be used.

08 January 2019

• In SEPA Transfer, it is now also possible to set up accounts with banks outside Germany. This makes it possible to create SEPA XML files in which a client account is entered that is not managed by a German bank.
• The printing of the SEPA overview has been corrected.
• A new option in the template dialog allows you to set whether bookings are created from templates depending on the last selected booking type in the main form or with the booking type saved in the template (bank transfer or direct debit).
• Suggestions are again displayed for all templates when the recipient name is entered.
• The selected default printer is saved correctly again.
• If an end-to-end reference is passed by command line command, the option to display the reference is automatically enabled (Enterprise Edition only).
• When importing EC cards via the command line, the newly created transaction is automatically selected and displayed in the list of open transactions when SEPA-Transfer is started (Enterprise Edition only).
• The hint dialog when saving invalid settings has been improved.
• When importing transactions with unsupported "Purpose Code" into SEPA, warnings are displayed after import instead of during import.
• The scroll bar in the turnover display is wider again.

14 May 2018

• SEPA-Transfer supports SEPA version 3.1.
• SEPA-Transfer can import SEPA containers.
• Export of SEPA files from SEPA accounts has been accelerated and memory consumption halved.
• When a transaction is created from a template, the transaction type stored in the template (bank transfer or direct debit) is taken into account. Previously, the booking type of the last booking selected in the main form was used.
• With the new command line command "ReadEC", an EC card can be automatically read at the point of sale (Enterprise Edition only).
• The command line command "Write" has been extended by the parameter "SplitDebitFiles", which can be used to specify that single, first and subsequent debits are exported to separate SEPA files (Enterprise Edition only).
• If the option to send SEPA files by e-mail is activated in the settings, the e-mail address of the recipient can be stored.
• The online banking component has been updated. SEPA Transfer now regularly checks whether an updated compatible version of the component is available.
• The import of password-protected Access databases is now possible directly via the file import wizard. Previously, the password could only be entered in the Database Import Wizard (Enterprise Edition only).
• In the import wizard, additional column titles from tables are automatically assigned to the data fields in SEPA-Transfer.
• The Import Wizard displays a message when incorrect data is entered instead of only after the import has been completed in the error log.
• It is now also possible to export transactions with a single-digit account number to a DTA file (Enterprise Edition only).
• In the export protocol in Excel format, amounts are saved as numbers instead of text (Enterprise Edition only).
• When exporting the booking history to an Excel file, the booking type is specified more clearly.
• More understandable titles are used when exporting mandates to Excel.
• If the import wizard has selected not to import faulty entries, SEPA-Transfer informs you after the import if faulty entries have actually been excluded from the import.
• The Import Wizard shows the progress of importing many thousands of bookings more smoothly.
• SEPA-Transfer now checks the complete creditor ID for correctness.
• After installation, SEPA-Transfer offers the transfer of data from a backup.
• The paper format for direct debit mandates was changed from A5 to A4 because some printers do not support printing in A5 format.
• A bug that prevented the update from SEPA-Transfer 9.1.2 and older versions to version 10 has been fixed.

22 February 2018

• Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are no longer supported after this version.
• The ribbon user interface has been modernized and is displayed correctly on scaled screens. As a result, the old menu-based user interface has been removed.
• The bank sort code update function has been removed. The bank sort code directory is now automatically updated with every update of the online banking component.
• IBANs and BICs from French overseas departments and the British Channel Islands are now correctly validated.
• New direct debits can be created from saved SEPA direct debit mandates in the mandate management.
• Recognition of postings from the clipboard has been improved.
• The selection of a log file for online banking has been simplified.
• If the database used by SEPA-Transfer cannot be found at startup, a warning is displayed and a backup is automatically restored.
• Variables for the current day, month and year can now be used in the purpose (Enterprise Edition only).
• A new option allows you to set the eraser to delete the amount of the transaction in addition to the intended purpose.
• Variables in the note to payee are resolved correctly again (Enterprise Edition only).

Online Banking

• Current account transactions can be called up at your bank with SEPA transfer. The displayed transactions can be filtered in SEPA Transfer according to payer, purpose and other values and exported as Excel or PDF files.
• Express transfers can be transferred to your bank with SEPA Transfer, provided this is supported by your bank for your account (Enterprise Edition only).
• SEPA Transfer checks whether the account is sufficiently covered before transferring funds. If the sum of the transfers is higher than the current account balance, a warning will be displayed. However, the transfer can still be executed.
• Error handling in online banking has been improved.
• The online banking component has been updated.

Command Line

• With the new switch "AddBooking" a new booking can be created in SEPA-Transfer.
• With the new switch "PrintBookingList" the booking list with all open bookings can be printed on a standard printer.
• With the new button "ClearMandates" all mandates of an account can be deleted.
• If an online banking transfer is initiated from the command line, the new "UrgentTransfer" button can be used to specify that transfers are to be executed as urgent transfers.

Import

• With the new switch "AddBooking" a new booking can be created in SEPA-Transfer.
• With the new switch "PrintBookingList" the booking list with all open bookings can be printed on a standard printer.
• With the new button "ClearMandates" all mandates of an account can be deleted.
• If an online banking transfer is initiated from the command line, the new "UrgentTransfer" button can be used to specify that transfers are to be executed as urgent transfers.

23 August 2017