Reverse a SEPA direct debit file to a SEPA direct credit file

German title: “Lastschriften in Überweisungen konvertieren”

We have had the situation that a SEPA direct debit was sent twice to the bank.

Now we need to credit our customers the amount again.

I did not find an open source script that reverses a direct debit, but I found https://github.com/AbcAeffchen/Sephpa which can write SEPA direct credit files.

Preparation on CentOS7:

yum install epel-release
yum install php-cli composer
composer require AbcAeffchen/Sephpa

Then get the index.php from below, modify the filename of the direct debit file, and the execution and creation date, and pipe the result:

php reverseSEPA.php > directcredit.xml

Here is the script: