Overview

The Overview page provides a summary of the account information for all account numbers registered to your smart card.

• Deposit account number
• Deposit account holder
• Balance at the last booking day: includes the transactions effectively booked, i.e. fee payments, refunds and replenishments
• Transactions not yet effectively booked: pending orders balance at the current date
• Payment plan (automatic debiting): total amount of the fees due to be paid via the automatic debiting procedure within the next 40 days.

Please ensure that there are adequate funds in your account at the due date.

• To see the total due for automatic debiting for a shorter time period, set the number of days to 10, 14 or 30 (the default is 40).
• To download the overview as a PDF file, click the PDF icon in the toolbar.

  The downloaded PDF file contains the summary as it is shown on the screen.

• To download the overview as an XML file, click the Download icon in the toolbar.

  The downloaded XML file contains the summary data for each account, plus the details of all transactions, pending orders and fees due via the automatic debiting procedure.

Further information

• All amounts are indicated in EUR.
• A red figure with a plus sign (+) means that this amount has been debited from your account or is due ("debit").
• A black figure with a minus sign (-) means that this amount has been credited to your account ("credit").
• Only debit orders issued online are displayed. Online debit orders can be issued via the EPO's online services (Online Fee Payment, Online Filing or new online filing (CMS)) or the WIPO's online services (PCT-Safe or ePCT).
• Pending orders are new payments made via EPO online services that have not yet been processed. They do not include payments made by bank transfer or debit orders issued under the EPO's automatic debiting procedure.
• The payment plan shows the total amount of fees that will be debited from your deposit account within the number of days shown to cover the fee payments generated by your automatic debit order (see Arrangements for deposit accounts (ADA) and their annexes: Supplementary publication 4).
• It does not include payments due in respect of applications filed and European patents with unitary effect registered subsequent to the date of your automatic debit order.