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Abstract

An Improved Electronic Check Presentment System Having a Return Item Notification System Incorporated Therein provides banks with a fully automated capability to receive early notification of checks that it previously presented to a payor bank and that have subsequently been identified by the payor bank as return checks or unpaid items. Moreover, the Improved Electronic Check Presentment System allows those banks utilizing it to transmit return notifications to downstream correspondent banks and customers. Additionally, the Improved Electronic Check Presentment System Having a Return Item Notification System Incorporated Therein provides presenting banks with the capability to automatically instruct the payor banks' systems as to the method of handling particular return checks, in advance of any return or pay/no pay decision by a payor bank, through the capability to append a selected disposition code to the electronic information associated with the check, at the time the check is initially processed by the presenting bank. As a by-product, the Improved Electronic Check Presentment System provides presenting banks with the capability to correlate item sequence numbers assigned to checks by other banks with different item sequence numbers originally assigned to these checks by the presenting bank. It also provides the capability to reconcile paper checks to electronic check records, even in the event that the paper checks are not in the same order as the electronic check records.

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