Initialization

Bank connections that are displayed with subscriber status Not initialized in the bank overview or the detail page of a bank cannot be used for data exchange with the bank. To initialize, you need personal access data from the bank, that is subscriber ID and keys.

You have two options for starting the initialization:

Select the bank in the overview and choose More actions – Do initialization from the menu.
Open the detail page of the bank and click on the button Do initialization.

Enter your subscriber ID on the page Initialize. This may already exist if an administrator or manager has entered it in the user administration or if you have entered the subscriber ID yourself in the bank details. The subscriber ID obtained by the bank is the binding one. You can accept the preset values for the signature version and the key lengths.

Click on Initialize to start the process and confirm by entering your password. After successful initialization, the page Initialization successful is opened.

Reinitialize

The bank may change your subscriber data or lock your bank connection. In this case, an EBICS error message is displayed when you try to send or retrieve orders to or from the bank or when updating the bank connection. You must then reinitialize the bank connection as described. Before a new initialization, you will be informed that this action generates new EBICS keys and that the old ones can no longer be used. It is important that the bank has previously reset your subscriber to status Not initialized.

Note: As an alternative to initialization, you can share an initialized bank connection with another user without having own subscriber data. The other user must start the action Share key and subcriber ID. If you are not sure which option is right for you, contact your administrator or manager.

Figure: Entering bank parameters