FastTrack360 Version 12 Online Help

How to Configure the FastTrack360 for RTI

Security

A user’s security profile will need to be reviewed as to whether they have permissions to perform certain actions for the FPS and EPS.

How to Configure the Security settings for RTI

  1.  

Go to Portal -> Maintenance -> Role-Data Groups.

2.

In the Permission Role tab, find the required agency type security role and enter into it.

3.

Click Edit.

4.

Scroll to the Statutory Reporting UK section.

5.

Check the required access requirements.

HMRC Message Portal - Will enable users to View/Send/Receive forms.

Mass Tax Code Uplift - Will enable users to uplift tax codes against payee records at the beginning of each new tax year.

EPS Generation - Will enable users to generate the EPS as well as view the value to be paid over to the HMRC each tax month.

Edit FPS - If an FPS submission is rejected and the form requires amendment, this gives users the ability to update the FPS data to allow a re-submission with amended data.

P45 - Will allow users to generate P45s.

P60 - Will allow users to generate P60s.

CIS300 Generation - Will enable users to generate CIS300 returns for each tax month to be sent to the HMRC via the HMRC Message Portal.

6.

Click Save Changes.

A successfully saved message will display confirming the change.

7.

The user affected will need to log out and log back in again to see the affected changes.

 

Pay Company - Tax Office

To communicate with the HMRC using the HMRC Portal, the following information should be populated within the Pay Company -> Tax Office tab:

Field

Description

PAYE Reference

All employers are issued with a PAYE reference as this is the identifier to the HMRC of the employer.  This consists of 2 fields: the office and the PAYE reference.

Accounts Office Reference

This is the identifier to the HMRC whenever payments to the HMRC are made that correspond to the PAYE reference.  This should be entered as this information is output onto the FPS.

Apprenticeship Levy Allowance

This is used within the EPS to offset the apprenticeship levy charge.  The employer must decide of the amount of apprenticeship levy applied to this pay company as the employer could have a separate payroll system that uses the same PAYE reference. Please refer to https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pay-apprenticeship-levy for further guidance.

Claim NIC Employment Allowance

This is used within the EPS to offset against employer NIC.  The employer must decide if this should be applied to this pay company as the employer could have a separate payroll system that uses the same PAYE reference.  Please refer to https://www.gov.uk/claim-employment-allowance for further guidance.

Small Employer Relief

This is used within the EPS to provide additional compensation for any child related payment if the employer’s previous tax year’s Class 1 National Insurance is £45000 or less.  It is the employer’s responsibility to control the activation of this flag.

Username

The employer’s username must be entered that they were supplied by the HMRC to log in to the HMRC’s own portal.  Any file that is sent to the HMRC where this field has not been populated will be rejected.

Password

The employer’s password must be entered that they were supplied by the HMRC to login into the HMRC’s own portal.  Any file that is sent to the HMRC via FastTrack360 where this field has not been populated will be rejected.

Is Agent

If an organisation is operating on behalf of another and is the contact with the HMRC on behalf of the other organisation, this box should be checked.  This will then display the agent details and this information should be completed as this will be sent to the HMRC on an FPS and EPS so that they know who they are communicating with.

 

Pay Company - Banking Details

Where an organisation uses BACS software to transmit their BACS file for paying payees, a BACS user number or SUN number will be issued.  Where the following conditions are met the HMRC requires a unique sub reference number to output in the payment files and a hashed string that contains the sub reference in the FPS so that the HMRC can correlate the FPS data with the payment made to the payee:

  • BACS user number has been entered against the Pay Company configuration

  • A payee has a tax type of PAYE

  • A payee has the pay method of BACS

Sub Reference

The sub reference is a unique reference consisting of a combination of any of the following:

  • Forward slash

  • Hyphen

  • Full stop

  • Upper case A to Z

  • 0 to 9

A unique sub reference will be generated per payee per pay batch and applied to the primary account row in the payment files that have a position for the sub reference.

BACS Hash

The BACS hash is generated using the following information:

  • Sub Reference

  • The pay company’s sort code

  • The payee’s sort code

  • The payee’s primary account payment value for the pay batch

Here is an example of a hashed value using data in the following table:

a8e88f215cc98f40a2d0c47c49d0b09f4593d9bb81aef118202987a8cc0e3689

Sub-ref inserted in field 7 of the Bacs payment instruction (standard 18 file)

/A..

The sort code of the originator’s bank

10-00-00

The sort code of the recipient’s bank

30-91-44

Amount of payment in pence (11 digits with leading zeros no decimal point)

00000125671

This information is then hashed using SHA256 algorithm and stored per payee per pay batch and is output on the FPS for the pay batch.  The BACS hash is generated as at pay batch close.

If your organisation does not have a BACS User number, the BACS hash is not required and thus not generated.











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