Aria generates XML statements for customers with only the following notification methods:
Enable XML Statements
If you want Aria to generate statements for your customers as XML documents, you must enable XML statements in Aria. To do so, Click Configuration > Notifications > Notification Settings > XML Statement Distillation Option (you may have to go to the next page of notification settings to see this option) > select your desired Value to specify how you want Aria to generate XML statements:
- XML Statements WITHOUT Usage Detail
- XML Statements WITH Usage Detail
Note: Selecting Aria XML Statements WITH Usage Detail may result in very large XML documents.
| Notification Method ID | Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | HTML Email |
| 2 | Text Email |
| 3 | Text Email w/link to HTML |
| 6 | Printable & Text Email |
| 7 | Printable & HTML Email w/Surcharge |
| 9 | PDF (Printing required, no Email) |
| 10 | PDF (delivered by Email) |
| 11 | PDF (Printing req & Email)w/surcharge |
| 12 | PDF (Printing req, no Email)w/surcharge |
| 13 | XML Master File |
| 14 | PDF Master File |
You can use the update_acct_notify_method_m, create_acct_complete_m, or update_acct_complete_m API call to set a customer’s notification method. In order to work with XML statements generated by Aria, you must also do the following:
- Subscribe to the Account Message Type "XML Statement" Requires Sending (event ID 442) event in the Account Notifications event group. This event notification informs you that an XML statement for a customer has been generated and provides an xml_statement_no.
- After you receive event notifications about generated XML statements, you can retrieve those statements using the API get_aria_xml_statement_m. Each of these event notifications contains an <xml_statement_no> that you can pass to get_aria_xml_statement. After retrieving the statements, you may choose to format them based on your business needs for presentation to your customers or transfer them to your financial systems.