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# Automatic payment

With automatic payment, you can create a SEPA payment file to submit payment orders for all your posted invoices to your bank at once. You do this from **Outstanding purchase invoices** (dashboard **Accounts payable**). The system automatically selects all invoices that are eligible. If you do not want to include an invoice yet, you can simply deselect it.

With the button **Create batch** above the table, you create a batch. If everything is set up correctly, you can download the file from the batch and submit it to the bank.

The bank also returns the payment as a batch on your bank statement, and therefore also in the bank transactions in Powerall Online. For a batch created by Powerall, the batch is linked automatically when the transactions are retrieved. This marks the batch as paid.


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