To enable the “Authenticate with NatWest” option, you need to enable Third Party Provider Payments privileges for company members (called Users in Bankline) who will make payments with Apron.

The process is similar for Natwest, Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster Bank.

To do that, you will need to set up a new role in Bankline and assign that role to the users who will be authorising payments.

Step 1: Create New Role with Third Party Payments Privileges

From the Administration menu, select Manage Role. Then click Create Role on the bottom-right corner of the screen.

On the Create Role screen:

1. Enter a name and description in the dedicated fields, e.g. “TPP Privileges”

2. At the bottom, you can use the drop-down menu to display privileges by category. Select Third Party Provider consents and click Save & go.

4. On the next screen, tick all the boxes, change the priviliges type in drop-down to Third Party Provider payments and click Save & go.

5. Tick all the boxes on the next screen and click Save & go.

6. After that, tick all the boxes and click Continue to go to the next screen.

7. Select the accounts you would like to use for payments with Apron, and click Continue.

8. On the next screen, click Confirm new role.

Step 2: Assign this role to users who will be initiating payments in Apron

1. Go to Manage Users and select the user you would like to activate this role for.

2. In the Edit User menu, scroll down to the bottom and click Edit roles.

3. On the Edit roles screen, select the new role you would like to activate for this user and click Continue.

4. On the next screen, click Confirm changes on the bottom-right corner of the screen.

5. You will be prompted to authenticate the change with your smartcard. Click on Authenticating the action with your Smartcard and go through the Smartcard authorisation process.

The process is now complete! You can now authenticate payments with NatWest in Apron.