What is New in SEPA-Transfer?

• SEPA-Transfer now warns you if a transfer or direct debit is to be executed for your own IBAN.

• Instant transfers have led to an error at some banks in online banking. This problem has been fixed. Please continue to use SEPA format 3.6 for real-time transfers and do not switch to the new format 3.7 yet. You can find the corresponding setting under "Start > Settings > Advanced > SEPA version".

• When selecting a direct debit from the drop-down template selection, an unexpected error could occur; this has been fixed.

• With the "Print booking list" function, it could happen that the "Open bookings" entry was included twice. This problem has been corrected.

• The command line option /BatchBooking for executing transactions as a collector now also works with /Command Send.

• When importing a SEPA XML file using the command line option -NOGUI, an error message could occur in certain cases. This problem has been fixed.

• An error that occurred for some customers immediately after starting SEPA Transfer has been fixed.

02/11/2025

• The library for online banking has been updated.

• A rare error in the import wizard when importing a SEPA XML file has been fixed.

• Using the command line option -NOGUI could lead to an error message in certain cases. This problem has been fixed.

• The import of CSV files with umlauts now works better if they are encoded in UTF8 format. It is best to use the .XLSX format, as this is more precisely specified than CSV.

01/20/2025

• SEPA transfer now outlines the fields of a transaction that do not contain valid values in red. This makes it easier to find incorrect entries.

• The dropdown list for template selection is now filtered when typing. This simplifies and speeds up the template selection, especially if there are several matching hits for what has been typed.

• SEPA transfer now starts almost twice as fast due to various optimizations.

• The sort order of transactions can be configured in the settings under Program > General. Sorting by recipient name, by creation date and by end-to-end reference is possible. This applies, for example, in the main window on the left, in the export window, but also in the generated SEPA files or when transferring to the bank, as well as in the Excel report files.

• IBANs are now displayed in blocks of four in the booking history and in the windows for exporting and transferring to the bank and are therefore easier to read.

• The windows for exporting or transferring bookings to the bank now recognize if the specified file paths point to devices that are no longer connected (e.g. USB sticks) and issue a warning in this case.

• The option to enter the address is now easier to find. At the same time, an overly restrictive verification of addresses for transfers outside the EU has been removed.

• The library for online-banking has been updated.

• The import wizard now skips the query if transfers or direct debits should be imported if no direct debits are configured for the current account.

• For direct debits from Ireland, the so-called OIN (mandatory field for Irish banks) is filled in automatically in SEPA XML files. This corresponds to the creditor ID in Germany. This means that SEPA Transfer can now also be used with banks based in Ireland.

• An error when repeatedly importing a password-protected Excel or Access file has been fixed.

• A rare error when importing Excel files has been fixed.

• Further minor improvements and bug fixes have been implemented.

01/03/2025

Improvements

• The library for online banking has been updated.

• When importing Postbank account transactions, information such as the name was missing after a changeover on the Postbank side. These are now displayed again.

• If transfers with an execution date in the future were executed as real-time transfers, these were given an incorrect date under certain circumstances and could be rejected by banks. The problem has been fixed.

• The window for printing bookings now displays the times correctly again. Previously, these were only displayed in 12-hour format.

• A rare error when importing direct debits has been fixed, which could occur if no IBAN was available for the direct debit.

• Generating an Excel log file is now more reliable.

• In the dialog for the cash discount calculation, the calculation is now triggered again if the gross amount changes.

• Recognition of decimal separators and thousands separators when inserting a posting from the clipboard has been improved.

11/25/2024

SEPA Standard 3.7

• The new SEPA standard 3.7 is now supported.

• The pain.001.001.09 format for SEPA credit transfers and real-time credit transfers is now supported.

• The pain.008.001.08 format for direct debits is now supported.

• The SEPA standard 3.7 is supported for online banking and export as a SEPA XML file.

• SEPA 3.7 XML files can be imported.

Improvements

• Deleting a large number of postings, templates or mandates is now much more efficient.

• Significantly more destination countries are now supported for transfers, even if they are not officially part of the SEPA area but support IBANs. This includes Ukraine, for example.

• The default currency for accounts in Croatia has been changed to €.

• The path of an Excel report file is saved after exporting as an XML file / when transferring to the bank and is automatically filled in when the export/bank transfer window is reopened.

• Opening the XML export window / bank transfer window is now much faster.

• When creating an Excel report file, the Excel file was overwritten if it already existed. Instead, a page is now added to the existing Excel file containing the new bookings.

Command line parameters

• The functionality of the command line write command has been revised. The "SplitDebitFiles" parameter has been removed as it is no longer necessary. All direct debits are now saved in a container.

• If exporting via the command line and no transaction type (via "-Type") is specified, both credit transfers and direct debits are now exported/transferred instead of only credit transfers as before.

Error corrections

• An error where the execution date was reset after a successful import for the first booking in the booking list has been fixed.

• An error where the mandate reference was reset after a successful import for the first booking in the booking list has been fixed.

• Variables in payment notes now work again.

• The optional BIC is taken into account again when exporting/transferring bookings if it has been explicitly specified.

Changes to the compatibilities

• The outdated operating systems Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 are no longer supported from this version onwards.

• The option to print transfer forms in order to then sign them and take them to the bank has been removed from the program.

07/23/2024

Changes

• After sending a transaction via online banking, an accompanying note can now be printed again. This was temporarily only possible for SEPA XML files. The accompanying note is a one-page overview of the transactions sent, which contains, for example, the number and amount, as well as a field for a signature. It can be activated in the SEPA Transfer settings under "Print".

• Simple invoices can now be entered in the field for the amount, which are calculated after confirmation with the Enter key.

• The library for online banking has been updated to make it compatible with some banks.

• Some minor usability improvements have been integrated.

06/24/2024

• The currency code for amounts in the account transactions now matches the currency code from the main window and is no longer determined based on the Windows region settings.
• It is now possible again to print all open transactions as a list or export them as a PDF.
• The total of transactions in the status bar at the bottom is now reliably updated after a single amount has been changed.
• Since V11.2, the export used a format for the execution date that was not supported or recognized by some banks. The problem has been fixed.
• In very rare cases, an unhandled error could occur at the end of the installation when updating the database if the SEPA Transfer database contained very old data that did not correspond to the expected format. This problem has been fixed.
• The list of recently executed transactions, which can be printed out or exported as a PDF after an export or online banking, is now sorted by name again.

05/07/2024

• If a maximum number of bookings is selected in the SEPA transfer settings, this is now also taken into account when exporting to a file. This is done in the way that only the first X transactions are checked in the export dialog and therefore only those are exported if you simply continue.
• The option "Execution date of non-scheduled transfers is the current day" in the advanced settings now works again as expected (Enterprise Edition). Background of this setting: Some programs cannot process non-terminated transfers with the value 01.01.1999 as defined in the SEPA standard, which reflects the request for execution on the next bank working day. In this case, SEPA Transfer writes the current date to the file.
• A very rare problem has been fixed, which occurred when a large number of transactions were processed at once.
• An unhandled error could occur when opening the export dialog if the SEPA Transfer database contained very old data that did not have the expected format. This problem has been fixed.
• When printing the accompanying note after exporting a SEPA file, the file name is now displayed correctly if it has been changed again in the export dialog.
• The library for online banking has been updated.
• Some other minor corrections and improvements have been made.

04/17/2024

• When printing a booking list, only transactions that have already been carried out (export of a SEPA file or online banking) are now listed. The command line call PrintBookingList has been adapted accordingly.
• The button for printing the last executed bookings is no longer deactivated after successful online banking.
• If the execution date when sending to the bank or saving to a file is more than 15 days in the future (i.e. would not be valid according to the SEPA specification), it is no longer automatically adjusted, but the user is only informed of this and the affected transactions are no longer automatically ticked for export.
• Under certain circumstances, it could happen that a single transfer was sent as a batch booking because this option was previously selected. This problem has been fixed.
• The library for online banking has been updated.

04/02/2024

• A possible error when sending transactions to the bank has been fixed, which mainly occurred if SEPA-Transfer has already been installed on the system for a long time.
• The input field for the amount is now consistently emptied if the value is 0.00 to make it easier to overwrite the value.
• When printing the list of recently executed or exported bookings, the default printer from the SEPA-Transfer settings is now used.
• A potential error that could occur when printing the accompanying note has been fixed.
• Some other minor corrections and improvements have been made.
• The library for online banking has been updated.

03/14/2024

• Exporting an Excel file and sending a payment to the bank is now more user-friendly and clearer. In the corresponding window, checkboxes can now also be used to simply select a subset of the open bookings so that only these are exported or sent to the bank.
• The import from CSV and Excel files has been accelerated by up to a factor of 20.
• SEPA XML files can now be imported using drag & drop by dragging files from Windows Explorer over the list on the left-hand side. This also works with several files at the same time.
• Thousand separators are now displayed in the amounts in most places.
• The PIN of an account is no longer requested several times during a program start.
• The wizard for creating a new account now offers more help if invalid entries have been made.
• When opening the template management, the templates of all accounts are now displayed if the current account has no templates.
• When importing from Microsoft Access databases, missing drivers are now installed automatically.
• If an error occurs when sending a booking due to incorrect configuration of the online banking, the configuration settings will now open directly.
• The buttons for creating a new transfer and a new direct debit are now displayed next to each other.
• Errors with the handling of the postal address for transactions with non-EU countries have been fixed.
• The compatibility of the generated SEPA XML files with the bank JP-Morgan has been improved.
• The support for the outdated SEPA standard V2.3 has been removed.
• Numerous other minor corrections and improvements have been made.

03/05/2024

• If there is no open booking, the option to fix the amount, purpose and execution date is ignored when creating a booking from a template via the auto-completion of the name.
• An error that could occur when creating a booking from a template via the auto-completion of the name of a booking has been fixed.
• An error that resets the input for the issue date of a mandate has been fixed.
• A display error of the mandate reference in the export dialog has been fixed.
• The end-to-end reference is now also exported when exporting recent transactions.
• An error that created the data storage in an incorrect location has been fixed.
• An error in the validation of IBANs has been fixed.
• The texts for selecting the mandate type during import have been revised.
• The library for online banking has been updated.

11/24/2023

• An individual transfer is now no longer listed as a collective transfer on the Postbank account statement.
• The library for online banking has been updated.
• Some other minor corrections and improvements have been made.

10/17/2023

• When creating SEPA XML files and sending bookings, the correct number of bookings is now exported or transferred, depending on the setting for the maximum number of bookings in "Bank specific settings".
• When creating a transaction from a template, by selecting the name in the main window, the newly created transaction is now correctly selected.
• An error that caused decimal separators not to be recognized correctly during import has been fixed.
• The library for online banking has been updated.
• Some other minor corrections and improvements have been made.

08/16/2023

• Creating bookings from bank cards now also supports giro cards, which only have the Girocard logo printed on them.
• Recognition of bookings from the clipboard has been improved.
• When creating a new account, the value NOTPROVIDED is now only entered as BIC for accounts with Austrian IBAN if no valid BIC has been specified.
• An error that occurred when importing a large number of bookings has been fixed.
• Some other minor corrections and improvements have been made.

06/12/2023

• Improved behavior when exporting with different due dates: In online banking, bookings are now grouped and transferred to the bank based on the execution date. When exporting to a SEPA XML file, different execution dates are written to separate payment information blocks.
• The booking history has been completely revised and improved. Die displayed bookings can now be filtered via the funnel symbol next to the caption of the corresponding column.
• Checkboxes in the list of outstanding transactions on the left side make selection easier.
• The list of outstanding transactions on the left side does now show the amount next to the name.
• Errors of a transaction are now being displayed as a hint when moving the cursor over an invalid booking in the list of outstanding transactions on the left.
• The width of the list of outstanding transactions is now saved.
• The autocompletion of templates does now also insert the template when hitting the tabulator key.
• When searching bookings, the element containing the search text is now framed in color.
• When changing the execution date of several transactions it will now get corrected automatically for each transaction if an execution on the selected day is not possible.
• BICs are no longer imported when importing a SEPA-XML file.
• The expiry date of mandates can now be changed in the mandate management.
• The default value when overwriting mandates is now always set in a way that existing mandates are being overwritten during import. (This only affects installations on a new system)
• It is now possible to provide the BIC when setting up accounts for banks outside of Germany.
• The library for online banking has been updated.
• The Option for a batch booking (BatchBooking) can now also be used for online banking via command line (only Enterprise Edition). Important: Until now the last setting from the Export-Dialog was used during command line export. From this version on, if the command line parameter is not provided, the bookings will not be exported as a batch booking, meaning that the bookings will have separate entries in your account statement, if this is supported by your bank.
• Minor optimizations were made to the graphical user interface.
• An error during the import of SEPA-XML files with an address line has been fixed.
• An error during the import of Excel files in which columns were not detected has been fixed.
• Deletion of the search text in the template management does now no longer result in an empty list.

04/26/2023

• The library for online banking has been updated.
• The path of the last exported SEPA file is correctly transferred to the export dialog again.
• An incompatibility in the SEPA format with some Austrian banks has been fixed.
• It is now possible to use spaces in the mandate reference again.
• Some other minor corrections and improvements have been made.

02/15/2023

• The mandate management now shows the expiration date of the validity of mandates. Note: Direct debit mandates become invalid 3 years after their last use. SEPA-Transfer maintains this date automatically, and you can easily identify expired mandates this way and delete them if necessary. Other minor corrections and improvements have been made
• A possible error when opening an exported SEPA XML file from within the program has been fixed.
• The BIC field is now filled with the correct 'NOTPROVIDED' value when exporting for Austrian accounts.
• In the Import Wizard, the wrong file type filter was applied to the list of files in the Enterprise Edition, so files of the selected type did not appear. This error has been fixed.

01/30/2023

• You now have more options to decide what should happen after saving a SEPA XML file. Besides the possibility to send the just written file encrypted by email, there is also the possibility to start a program with it or to open a certain web page, e.g. to upload the file there.
• If there is no active booking, the field for the execution date in the lower right corner now shows the current date instead of 12/31/1899.
• The IBAN is now formatted in blocks of 4 in the main window.
• The usability of the window for selecting and editing templates has been improved.
• The "Print transaction list" function now remembers the settings made in it.
• When pasting a bank transfer or direct debit from the clipboard, text enclosed in quotation marks is now taken as the intended purpose.
• Address data of bookings and direct debits are now always exported to the SEPA XML file if they are present, and no longer only for those transactions in which they must be present according to the Money Laundering Act.
• In the Import Wizard, the table preview has been improved.
• Error output when using command line parameters has been improved. (Enterprise Edition only)
• Numerous other minor fixes and improvements have been made.

01/02/2023

• In the dropdown menu "Import file" now not only the file name is shown, but the whole path. If this is too long, parts of the path are replaced by 3 dots in the middle. This way, you can see where exactly the file is loaded from. This is especially useful if you have files with the same name in different folders.
• Fixed an error when importing files with English decimal notation.
• Fixed several minor bugs related to mandate management.
• Table preview of the import wizard works correctly again.

10/21/2022

• An error that could occur when inserting VISA Debit cards into the card reader has been fixed.
• An error that could occur when importing SEPA XML files has been fixed.
• Auto-completion for recipients in the main window now works as usual.
• In a few cases, unexpected values in the templates caused an error when starting the program. This has been corrected.

10/11/2022

• The active booking can be explicitly saved as a template using the "Save as template" button. The function is now also available in the right-click menu of the booking list on the left side. SEPA-Transfer also prevents identical templates from being added multiple times.
• If a new booking is created from a template, a small pencil now appears to the right of the "Recipient" field, which can be used to edit the template quickly and easily.
• The display of templates in the dropdown of the "Recipient" field has been improved: In case there are multiple templates for the same recipient, the differences are now made clear by appending the IBAN or the purpose to the entry in the dropdown.
• The functionality of the urgent transfer has been replaced by the SEPA real-time transfer. This is officially part of the European SEPA standard and is meanwhile supported by most banks. To use it, simply tick the checkbox for real-time transfer in the dialog for sending or exporting SEPA transfers. Please note that many banks charge additional fees for these transactions.
• More variables have been added for use in the purpose text: past year, next year, past month, next month, quarter, past quarter, next quarter. Please refer to the help for details.
• The command line parameter -WaitForCommands has been revised. This now executes SEPA-Transfer as an instance waiting for incoming commands. Further calls of SEPA-Transfer with command line parameters simply forward these commands to the waiting instance, which makes it possible to execute the commands faster than if SEPA-Transfer has to be completely initialized with each call. The command line parameter -WaitForCommands can be combined with -NoGui to make sure that the waiting instance does not display a window.
• The online banking PIN of an account is no longer requested multiple times within a program start.
• The error messages when importing invalid SEPA XML files have been improved.
• It is now possible to change the name an account has in SEPA-Transfer.
• When opening the template manager for the first time, the time until the window is displayed has been decreased.
• Several display problems in the Import Wizard, when screen scaling is enabled, have been fixed.
• The recognition of amounts during import has been improved.
• Numerous minor improvements and corrections have been made.

09/23/2022

• Updated online banking components to resolve a problem with Sparkasse that occurred since end of June when sending transactions.

07/01/2022

• 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

06/01/2022

• 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.

04/27/2022

• 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.

02/15/2022

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

12/23/2021

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

12/21/2021

• 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

• Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are no longer supported, so at least Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 is now required. Older versions of SEPA-Transfer that support older operating systems can be downloaded from our customer area.
• SEPA-Transfer now requires .NET Framework 4.8, which should already be installed on most systems via Windows Update.

12/16/2021

• Working with multiple recurring mandates per IBAN has been improved. Customers who use this should pay attention to cleanly assign mandate references and, if possible, should derive these from the contract number or customer number and import them as well.
• In the booking history, it is now possible to delete all entries for the selected account via a newly added button.
• Display problems in the Import Wizard, when screen scaling is enabled, have been fixed.
• When updating account transactions, in rare cases an error could occur due to too long texts. This problem has been fixed.
• CSV export of account activities via the user interface and the command line has been unified. (Enterprise Edition only)
• The path displayed in the export dialog is now the active path when using the button to display a path selection dialog.
• When entries were sent individually to the bank to appear individually in the account activities (available in Enterprise Edition only), some banks rejected them as double submissions. This problem has been fixed.
• The "Configure Online Banking" function in the settings dialog has been improved.
• The libraries for online banking have been updated.
• Some minor corrections and improvements have been made.

07/06/2021

• 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.

05/04/2021

• 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.

04/19/2021

• 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

01/25/2021

• 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.

01/11/2021

• An error was fixed that caused a temporary freezing of the program when too many entries were made in the booking history. This change also results in a speed-up of the program launch.
• In the error list of the import wizard, missing IBANs are now correctly listed with "IBAN is empty”.
• The Import Wizard now allows the import of one SEPA purpose code per booking. (Enterprise Edition only)
• When reading a debit card, now always a direct debit is created. Previously, this depended on the transaction type (bank transfer or direct debit) that was added last. (Enterprise Edition only)
• In the import wizard, the field "First direct debit date" has been removed, as it is no longer required in the current SEPA standard for recurring debits.
• The command line parameter '-Command Account' now overwrites the account which was read from a configuration file for the import with the command line switch "-ImportSettings". (Enterprise Edition only)
• An amount of 0€ is now automatically overwritten when editing and does not need to be deleted first.
• The account transactions are now filtered by transaction date and not by value date. This ensures a more consistent display of the account activities.
• Support for high-resolution monitors in multi-monitor scenarios has been improved.
• The filter options of the booking history have been corrected and improved.
• The order of the form fields in the main window has been optimized when traversing them with the TAB key.
• When the transaction list is selected in the main window on the left, the CTRL+A keyboard shortcut will now correctly select all transactions.
• The command line parameter "RemainOpen" now also works when other command line commands fail. (Enterprise Edition only)
• A possible error when recognizing transactions in the clipboard has been fixed.
• The unattended installation now also works for the Windows account "SYSTEM".
• When printing transfers, the BIC is now printed instead of the own bank code, as provided on the current SEPA forms. The font is now bold throughout the entire form to simplify character recognition at the bank.
• Non-allowed characters in imported mandate references are now automatically converted into valid characters.
• Empty lines in CSV files no longer lead to empty entries during import.
• If a file can no longer be opened during the last step of the import, an error message is now displayed.
• If under "Settings > Advanced > Bank specific settings" the value for the maximum number of transactions is set to "1", the correct execution date of each transaction is now used. This function is useful when individual transactions should be listed separately in the account activities.
• Templates are now no longer listed in the transaction history.
• The margins set for printing are now taken into account again.

10/13/2020

• 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.

05/22/2020

• 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.

04/27/2020

• 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.

10/25/2019

• 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.

10/10/2019

• 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.

09/12/2019

• 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.

08/13/2019

• 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".

07/29/2019

• 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.

06/26/2019

• 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.

06/14/2019

• 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.

04/08/2019

• 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)

02/19/2019

• 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.

01/08/2019

• 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.

05/14/2018

• 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.

02/22/2018

• 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 button "ClearMandates" all mandates of an account can be deleted.

08/23/2017