Daycos News

In March of last year,the Daycos News blog got a new look, and some new software to run the blog. Included in that software was some improved website analytics and reporting, which makes it easier to track how many people are visiting the blog, and what they are reading. Using those reports, we wanted to share the 5 most popular posts of 2010.

1. What is Syncada, and what happened to PowerTrack? It may be a bit surprising that this

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Just as the recent transmission problems with CWA seems to be resolved, a new transmission problem involving DPS has appeared. During the last week, we have had over 1,400 invoices that have failed to move from the DPS system to the US Bank payment system, despite all line items being approved or denied. We first noticed the problem on Tuesday of last week with a small number of invoices, but the number has continued to grow each day.
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…Last week, we sent an EDI file to DFAS-Indianapolis for the last time . Due to the increased use of USBank Payment Systems (formerly PowerTrack), fewer and fewer invoices were submitted to DFAS for electronic payment. Therefore they made the decision to shut down their DTRS system, which enables their EDI processing. From this point forward, all invoices payable to DFAS-Indy will need to be sent via paper to DFAS’ pre-payment auditor, National Traffic Service (NTS). NTS will conduct the

Last July, US Bank  announced a joint partnership with Visa to launch Syncada, a business-to-business payment network. Then TSPs were informed… by US Bank that PowerTrack was being re-branded as Syncada, with a new URL and logos. Other than those two pieces of information, TSPs have not had a lot of information about this change, and the result is a lot of confusion about what change has actually occurred and what it means to TSPs.
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Last Friday afternoon, SDDC posted drafts of the DP3 Phase III Business Rules and Solicitations… on their website. These documents have been highly anticipated by TSPs who are eager to see how the government plans to handle the final implementation piece of the DP3 program, covering Non-Temp Storage (NTS) and Direct Procurement Moves (DPM).
As has been rumored, DPM seems to have been removed from the program. In addition to NTS, there are  two additional shipment types included in Phase

As the upcoming tariffs have been published, there has been some language added to them all concerning the ability of PowerTrack to collect offsets via ebills. The language has caused considerable concern that this change will give the government the ability to directly withdraw funds from TSP bank accounts, instead of deducting the money from future invoice payments, as is done now. The specific language is below:

Currently, PowerTrack does not have the capability to process administrative offsets under the …

A few years ago we blogged… about invoices for Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) shipments being payable through PowerTrack/Syncada. When that announcement was made, there were specific codes of service or shipment types that were being processed for payment through PowerTrack. For example, only code 1 domestic service codes were processed through PowerTrack; all code 2 and International service codes were processed and paid via a paper invoice.
We recently learned that effective with pickup dates of October

In our recent newsletter, we posted the following chart displaying payment times in DPS vs. TOPS during 2009. This chart has generated considerable discussion from both the TSP and Government side, and there has been some discussion about the chart and what it really says about invoicing in DPS. We thought it would be helpful to offer a little context to the discussion, and share what we feel the take away is from this chart.

Obviously, the first thing that…