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ACH libraries have been around for 20 years... Hope you didnt recreate the wheel...

• r00fus 12y ago
  Any good ones you'd recommend for major languages?
  • jesusmichael 12y ago
    Technically... You cant initiate an ACH transaction. You request it from a member institution, who authorize and initiate it. Many large institutions have their own APIs... But cybersource http://www.cybersource.com/developers/ http://www.cybersource.com/developers/ has most of what you'd need
    • r00fus 12y ago
      Interesting - as I understand the process is generally to send an ACH file to a bank's file transfer point once agreements are signed and credentials/keys are shared. Are there any libraries to create the ACH file itself from basic information like ODFI, etc?
      • aioprisan 12y ago
        There are a few good ones on GitHub: https://github.com/jm81/ach https://github.com/jm81/ach At my old company, we manually had someone use ACH Tools to build out these files, upload to the bank's interface, etc.: http://www.achtools.com/HomePage.aspx#!/ http://www.achtools.com/HomePage.aspx#!/
• mclarke 12y ago
  ...if only financial institutions actually adhered to the NACHA specification :(
  • wiredfool 12y ago
    Right. 94 character, fixed width. What could go wrong there? What's that, you want line endings? I've seen \r, \n, and \r+\n. Nothing like 96 characters in a 94 character format.
    • dragontamer 12y ago
      Why the were you voted down?
      • wiredfool 12y ago
        Sarcasm, I think.
      • dang 12y ago
        https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7619287 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7619287