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ACH
The Automated Clearing House number is provided by the receiving company and is used to authorize funds transfers from the requesting financial institute.

Alien No
Company identifier assigned to foreign firms by the NAIC

Authorizing Person
Identifying information about the company person who is submitting these renewals to the State.  This information is passed on by NIPR to the State along with the renewal in case the State needs to contact the company about the renewal.

Cocode
Company identifier assigned by the NAIC

Company Name (company sign-on option)
For the company sign-on you should only enter the company name if you do not know any of the other identifiers of your company. When entering the company name, only type in enough letters to uniquely identify your company.

Delimited File
An output results file that contains the information of the report in a file with each piece of data delimited with a colon character. This file can be imported into Access, Excel, Word, or most data manipulation applications. The filename extension is ".csv”.

Electronic Check
Electronic check is a legally binding promise to pay. On screen, it looks just like a paper check and is filled out the same way. It includes all details like date, payee name, amount, signature, bank routing code, bank account number and memo line. It is embedded in a secure electronic file in which the user defines data regarding the purpose of the check.

FEIN
Federal Employer Identification Number

Invoice Number (company sign-on option)
Once you have viewed your company invoice in this application for a particular State, you can quickly sign-in using that invoice number. However, invoice numbers are State specific and your company will have a different invoice number for different State appointment renewals each year.

License Number (company sign-on option)
An additional company identifier you can use to uniquely identify your company when signing on. This would be the license number for one of the active licenses your company has with the State you are processing appointment renewals with.

National Producer # (National Producer Number)
This is the primary identifier of the producer and is the number that has been assigned to this producer by the NIPR.

Sign-on (company)
The company sign-on screen requires that you provide just enough company identifiers to uniquely identify your company. If you know your company FEIN that is registered with this State, or NAIC Cocode, you can enter either one of these and that should be unique. You should only enter the company name if you do not know any of the other identifiers of your company. When entering the company name, only type in enough letters to uniquely identify your company.

Text File
An output results file that contains the information of the report in a file with each piece of data delimited with a colon character. This file can be imported into Access, Excel, Word, or most data manipulation applications. The filename extension is ".csv”.

XML File
An output results file that contains the information of the report in a file with each piece of data encased in a data tag identifying the type of data and an end tag identifying the end of the data. XML structure is in true outline form. This file can be imported into Access 2000 (or higher) or Excel 2000 (or higher) or into a special program and manipulated. Both IE 5.0 (and higher) and Netscape 6.0 (or higher) allow you to view an XML file in an outline format with the data tags.