This document provides technical information about how to set up TABS III in order to facilitate the export of information to the format required by Bank of America. Please review this document carefully before attempting to export data for Bank of America matters.

Bank of America assigns each law firm a Formatted Firm Name. During configuration, you will need to enter your Formatted Firm Name in the appropriate field. The Formatted Firm Name is stored in the Taskbill.INI file.

There is one field required for Bank of America that is not in TABS III. This field is the Loan Number. During configuration, you are given the choice of where to store this field in the TABS III client file. Available locations include miscellaneous lines 1-3, beginning statement notes lines 1-4, ending statement notes line 1-4, and client notes lines 1-150. You will have to make sure to set up all of your Bank of America matters the same way so this field is not missing in the electronic data file for any individual matters.

Bank of America requires a unique description to accompany each TABS III transaction. Initially, before you start submitting electronic bills to Bank of America, they require that you send them a list of TABS III transaction codes. Based on this list, Bank of America will then assign a unique description to each TABS III transaction code.

It is up to you to make sure the correct Bank of America description goes with the correct TABS III transaction. This is accomplished by including the Bank of America description in the TABS III transaction code description as a statement comment. Refer to the TABS III Online Help for more information about working with statement comments. The Taskbill program will extract the statement comment found in the transaction description and put it into the correct location in the Bank of America electronic file. If you have multiple statement comments in a transaction description, the Bank of America statement comment must precede any others.