# Sending Bank debit file **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [December 22, 2019, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/sending-bank-debit-file/25910 "2019-12-22T21:43:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://forum.manager.io/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2019, 2:41am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/sending-bank-debit-file/25910/7 "2019-12-24T02:41:36Z")
> [@VoeTo01](#): > > So making sales invoices for such a customer gives the possiibility to send a file (xml) to the bank and the bank collects the money and debits my accont automatically. > [@Tut](#): > > export a Sales Invoice Totals by Customer report, or a suitably filtered list from the Sales Invoices tab to a spreadsheet. Adding custom fields to Manager, searching on sales invoices tagged “For direct debit payment”, then exporting that would be another approach which may minimize eternal database manipulation required. The difficulty would depend on your banks formating requirements / options. If a csv file option existed, external processing maybe trivial. Many electronic data transfer protocols are moving towards xml, so maybe there will be the target market to support this in the future readily from within Manager but I’m not aware of any current support other than handcrafting the file as done in these export to csv localisations - [Australia / Single Touch Payroll](https://www.manager.io/localizations/au/07332ba33e824dc194511350f5d84e24), - [United Kingdom/VAT Calculation Worksheet](https://www.manager.io/localizations/gb/12e5e9fbd8e84fceaa338ba564117550) For an overview on how difficult localisations are to write see [Localisation: GST/VAT worksheet programming guide](https://forum.manager.io/t/localisation-gst-vat-worksheet-programming-guide/23644) however your application would probably need to enhancements Lubos mentioned. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.manager.io/t/sending-bank-debit-file/25910)._