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Import and post OCR payments [NO]	Before you can receive optical character recognition (OCR) payments, you must make certain preparations in the Norwegian version of Business Central.	brentholtorf	conceptual	al		15000100, 255	12/06/2023	bholtorf	dynamics-365-business-central	bholtorf

Import and post OCR payments

Before you can receive optical character recognition (OCR) payments, you must make the following preparations:

Set up a cash receipt journal template to balance OCR transactions according to the document number, instead of the document type.
Import and post the OCR payment files to a cash receipt journal.

To import OCR payments

Choose the icon, enter Cash Receipt Journals, and then choose the related link.
In the Batch Name field, select a journal batch.

[!NOTE]
OCR payments can only be posted to a cash receipt journal that does not use a balance account in the Bal. Account No. field on the cash receipt journal line.
Choose the Import Payments action.
On the OCR Payment-BBS page, fill in the fields as described in the following table.

Field Description

File Name Enter the full path of the import file.
Choose the OK button to import the payment file to the journal.

Choose the icon, enter Cash Receipt Journals, and then choose the related link.
Choose the Post action.

The OCR payment files are posted to the cash receipt journal.