It would be good to see improved validation around vendor bank account details, particularly the account and routing numbers.

There are two main areas where this could be addressed. The first is at the point of creating or editing the vendor bank account. This would need to be configurable, as the right validation will depend on the bank the company is paying from, but this is the best point at which to catch errors such as existence or lack of special characters or numbers that are too short or long.

The next point at which to implement further validation is in the electronic reporting payment configuration. For example, the maximum field length for an account number in the payment configuration is 9 characters, but the user has entered the account number with a space, meaning that it is 10 characters. Some of the standard configurations, such as CBA Direct Credit Service (AU), simply truncate the number, meaning you finish up with the wrong account number without knowing it. It should return an error instead.