SEPA IN GERMANY 
RXPAY 
RXPAY SAS 2 Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 Contact@rxpay.fr
RXPAY SAS 2 Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 Contact@rxpay.fr 
1- NATIONAL PRODUCTS 
National formats (DTA, DTAUS) : National credit transfers and direct debits (Einzugsermächtigungslastschrift) 
Ndirect debits (Abbuchungsauftrag) 
Niche products : There are no “niche products” products in Germany 
Direct debit initiated by a payment card “Elektronisches Lastschriftverfahren, ELV” : Transactions made by using a payment card at the point of sale which results in a direct debit
RXPAY SAS 2 Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 Contact@rxpay.fr 
2- IBAN 
Germany IBAN is composed of 22 characters : 
DE CC 12345678 0123456789 
Positions 1 – 2: ISO country code (DE for Germany) 
Positions 3 – 4: Check digits 
Positions 5 – 12: Bank and branch identifier 
Characters 12 – 22: Account number* 
* Some German account numbers have less than 10 digits; in this case “0” should be added on the left side
RXPAY SAS 2 Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 Contact@rxpay.fr 
3- ACCOUNTS CONVERSION SERVICE 
Migration from legacy account numbers and bank routing codes to IBAN and BIC. This application is reachable via : 
www.iban-service-portal.de/ibanp/iban/auth/HFlqDwSOFC/Start
RXPAY SAS 2 Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 Contact@rxpay.fr 
4- CREDITOR IDENTIFIER (CI) 
Germany CI is composed of 18 characters : 
DE CC ZZZ 01234567890 
Positions 1 – 2: ISO country code (DE for Germany) 
Positions 3 – 4: Check digits 
Positions 5 – 7: Creditor Business Code (by default “ZZZ”) 
Positions 8 – 18: Creditor National Identifier 
German CI can be obtained from the German Central Bank
RXPAY SAS 2 Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 Contact@rxpay.fr 
5- MANDATES MIGRATION 
Existent “Einzugsermächtigungsverfahren” mandates remain valid for SDD Core 
For “Abbuchungsauftragsverfahren” a new SDD B2B mandate needs to be issued and signed by the debtor
RXPAY SAS 2 Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 Contact@rxpay.fr 
6- XML SCHEMES FOR SCT 
SCT 
Pain.001.001.03 
Pain.001.002.02 
Pain.001.002.03 
Pain.001.003.03
RXPAY SAS 2 Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 Contact@rxpay.fr 
6- XML SCHEMES FOR SDD 
SDD CORE 
Pain.008.001.02 
Pain.008.002.02 
Pain.008.002.03 
Pain.008.003.02 
SDD B2B 
Pain.008.001.02 
Pain.008.002.02 
Pain.008.002.03 
Pain.008.003.02
RXPAY SAS 2 Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 Contact@rxpay.fr 
8- PRACTICES 
The German banking community has agreed to additionally permit the use of special characters allowed in the existing national payment transactions, such as mutated vowels/ 
umlauts, i. e. Ä, Ö, Ü, ä, ö, ü, and special letters, such as the ß.
RXPAY SAS 2 Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 Contact@rxpay.fr 
9- REASON CODE USAGE 
In case of unsuccessful collection, German debtor banks will not be able to use the following R-transaction reason codes, due to consumer protection reasons : 
MD07 
Debtor deceased 
AG01 
Direct debit forbidden on this account for regulatory reasons 
AM04 
Insufficient funds 
RR01- 04 
Regulatory reason
RXPAY SAS 2 Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 Contact@rxpay.fr 
10- ADDITIONAL OPTIONAL SERVICE 
German banks offer SEPA Direct Debit COR1 * scheme on a 
national level on 4 November 2013 
* This scheme allows for shorter (D-1) file submission timelines for first/one-off and recurrent collections compared to the regular Core scheme timelines
www.rxpay.eu Questions http://rxpay.eu/services/rxmind/ Email : Contact@rxpay.fr Twitter : https://twitter.com/RXPAY Training : http://rxpay.fr/services/rxlearning/ 
RXPAY SAS 2 Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 Contact@rxpay.fr 
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    SEPA IN GERMANY RXPAY RXPAY SAS 2 Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 [email protected]
  • 2.
    RXPAY SAS 2Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 [email protected] 1- NATIONAL PRODUCTS National formats (DTA, DTAUS) : National credit transfers and direct debits (Einzugsermächtigungslastschrift) Ndirect debits (Abbuchungsauftrag) Niche products : There are no “niche products” products in Germany Direct debit initiated by a payment card “Elektronisches Lastschriftverfahren, ELV” : Transactions made by using a payment card at the point of sale which results in a direct debit
  • 3.
    RXPAY SAS 2Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 [email protected] 2- IBAN Germany IBAN is composed of 22 characters : DE CC 12345678 0123456789 Positions 1 – 2: ISO country code (DE for Germany) Positions 3 – 4: Check digits Positions 5 – 12: Bank and branch identifier Characters 12 – 22: Account number* * Some German account numbers have less than 10 digits; in this case “0” should be added on the left side
  • 4.
    RXPAY SAS 2Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 [email protected] 3- ACCOUNTS CONVERSION SERVICE Migration from legacy account numbers and bank routing codes to IBAN and BIC. This application is reachable via : www.iban-service-portal.de/ibanp/iban/auth/HFlqDwSOFC/Start
  • 5.
    RXPAY SAS 2Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 [email protected] 4- CREDITOR IDENTIFIER (CI) Germany CI is composed of 18 characters : DE CC ZZZ 01234567890 Positions 1 – 2: ISO country code (DE for Germany) Positions 3 – 4: Check digits Positions 5 – 7: Creditor Business Code (by default “ZZZ”) Positions 8 – 18: Creditor National Identifier German CI can be obtained from the German Central Bank
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    RXPAY SAS 2Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 [email protected] 5- MANDATES MIGRATION Existent “Einzugsermächtigungsverfahren” mandates remain valid for SDD Core For “Abbuchungsauftragsverfahren” a new SDD B2B mandate needs to be issued and signed by the debtor
  • 7.
    RXPAY SAS 2Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 [email protected] 6- XML SCHEMES FOR SCT SCT Pain.001.001.03 Pain.001.002.02 Pain.001.002.03 Pain.001.003.03
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    RXPAY SAS 2Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 [email protected] 6- XML SCHEMES FOR SDD SDD CORE Pain.008.001.02 Pain.008.002.02 Pain.008.002.03 Pain.008.003.02 SDD B2B Pain.008.001.02 Pain.008.002.02 Pain.008.002.03 Pain.008.003.02
  • 9.
    RXPAY SAS 2Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 [email protected] 8- PRACTICES The German banking community has agreed to additionally permit the use of special characters allowed in the existing national payment transactions, such as mutated vowels/ umlauts, i. e. Ä, Ö, Ü, ä, ö, ü, and special letters, such as the ß.
  • 10.
    RXPAY SAS 2Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 [email protected] 9- REASON CODE USAGE In case of unsuccessful collection, German debtor banks will not be able to use the following R-transaction reason codes, due to consumer protection reasons : MD07 Debtor deceased AG01 Direct debit forbidden on this account for regulatory reasons AM04 Insufficient funds RR01- 04 Regulatory reason
  • 11.
    RXPAY SAS 2Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 [email protected] 10- ADDITIONAL OPTIONAL SERVICE German banks offer SEPA Direct Debit COR1 * scheme on a national level on 4 November 2013 * This scheme allows for shorter (D-1) file submission timelines for first/one-off and recurrent collections compared to the regular Core scheme timelines
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    www.rxpay.eu Questions http://rxpay.eu/services/rxmind/Email : [email protected] Twitter : https://twitter.com/RXPAY Training : http://rxpay.fr/services/rxlearning/ RXPAY SAS 2 Rue de la châtaigneraie 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tel : 02 99 12 79 05 [email protected] RXPAY