Oma Säästöpankki Oyj has announced the termination of cross-connections for web service (WS) channels with the Säästöpankkiryhmä. As a result, OmaSP customers will no longer be able to use the Säästöpankkiryhmä WS channels and will need to establish a new WS channel.
Most of the WS channel change is handled automatically by Procountor and the bank, and for example, payment traffic will automatically transition to the new channel. However, at the time of the change, any scheduled payments waiting for their due dates or paydays and possible OmaSP e-invoicing addresses need to be checked (more details and instructions below).
The instructions on this page apply to OmaSP customers only. Säästöpankkiryhmä customers continue to use the same WS channel as before.
What is a WS channel?
A WS channel, or "web service" channel, is a banking connection channel used by companies that connects the bank and the software used by the company. The WS channel is needed to transfer the company's payment traffic between the bank and the software. For example, payments can be made from Procountor, which are processed by the bank.
Each bank and Procountor have their own WS channel. The WS channel is agreed upon when a contract is made with the bank for the transmission of payment traffic between the software and the bank.
Who is affected by the change?
The WS channel change affects all OmaSp customers. The change has also impacted the WS channels of other software handling payment traffic, not just Procountor.
Customers who currently have or have recently had an OmaSP bank account in Procountor received a notification on their homepage starting from May 15th 2025. An email was also sent to the contact people (1 per company, in Finnish).
When does the WS channel change take effect?
Procountor customers will be transferred to use the new OmaSP WS channel on May 27th. The change will take effect during the night between Monday (26.5.) and Tuesday (27.5.). From Tuesday morning, OmaSP customers' banking traffic will use the new WS channel, and payments will be transferred through it to the bank.
What actions are required from Procountor users?
Most of the change will be implemented automatically by Procountor. After the early morning of 27.5., all banking traffic (including payment traffic) of OmaSP customers using Procountor will automatically switch to the new WS channel. Therefore, the change does not require, for example, modifying bank connection information in Procountor or contacting the bank.
However, the change may require specific actions from users if there are scheduled payments in your Procountor environment at the time of the change (early morning 27.5.) that are scheduled for payment on Tuesday 27.5. or later.
- A scheduled payment means that you or another user has moved an invoice or salary to await for their due date or payday. The Pay button has been used before the future payment date marked on the receipt. The status of the receipt shows "Payment queued".
- Since the payment is scheduled with the old payment information and WS channel (before the early morning of 27.5.), the scheduled payment would fail in the bank after the change on 27.5.
- Please note that if the payment has been created on or after 27.5., it does not need any changes as it already uses the new payment info (WS channel).
Additionally, for some customers, the change may require modifying e-invoicing addresses. These customers saw a specific mention of e-invoicing addresses in their frontpage announcement if OmaSP's e-invoicing addresses are found in their environment (more details below, in the last paragraph).
How do I check if there are scheduled payments in my company?
Scheduled payments should be reviewed as close to the change on 27.5. as possible. Note that processing payments requires sufficient user rights to search and pay the invoices.
- You can find invoices waiting for payment by searching for receipts with the status: "Payment queued"
- If necessary, you can sort the retrieved invoices by payment date. Payments for invoices with a payment date of 27.5. or later should be canceled.
The instructions for salaries follow the same logic as above, but salaries are retrieved from the salary search.
I found payments scheduled for 27.5. or later. How do I cancel the payment?
If you are still in the receipt search and the invoice appears in the search results:
- Go to the Payment tab of the invoice. One way to get there is to select the invoice row from the search results and use the Payment button.
- On the Payment tab, the payment transaction is canceled with the Cancel payment button. You can find more detailed instructions for canceling a payment here.
Once you have canceled the payment, you can resubmit it for payment immediately or schedule it to a later day.
From Tuesday 27.5. onwards, payments can be scheduled normally for the future. All payments made from 27.5. onwards will automatically have the new payment information.
What happens if scheduled payments are not canceled?
If payments scheduled for 27.5. or later are transferred to the bank with the old payment information (meaning that they were scheduled for payment before Tuesday 27.5.), the payments will fail in the bank, and a payment error notification will appear in Procountor.
In handling the payment error, you or another user can resubmit the payments. In this case, the payments will automatically have the new, correct payment information, regardless of whether the invoice is paid immediately or scheduled for payment.
How does the change affect e-invoicing?
The change in the WS number requires modifying addresses if your company uses the bank's (OmaSP's) e-invoicing addresses. If this situation applies to you, your homepage announcement (about the OmaSP change) will specifically state that the change requires modifying e-invoicing addresses. Unfortunately, we could not automatically update the e-invoicing addresses from here in the same way as the WS number for payment connections.
Most Procountor users use Apix's e-invoicing addresses, which are not affected by the OmaSP change.
If you use OmaSP's e-invoicing addresses, follow these steps as close to May 27th as possible:
- Navigate to: Management > Company Information > E-invoicing and Scanning Addresses
- Update the WS number to 08429560 on the OmaSP e-invoicing address line (BIC code: ITELFIHH).
- Save the information.
If the WS number for the e-invoicing address is changed too early or too late, it is possible that sending e-invoices will encounter errors. In such cases, the invoice sender will receive a separate error notification, after which the invoice can be resent.