State of Hawaii · Enterprise Financial System

Earn Your Interface

A digital interface is any electronic exchange of data between a departmental system and EFS — the line it draws is rekeying. Everyone gets one. What is being decided here is whether a standing connection is added on top. The next page scopes which assessment applies to you; the assessment itself decides what you qualify for, and central finance confirms it.

Bulk Import (Manual)

EFS publishes a template for each transaction type. Your system produces a matching extract on a cycle, a named person checks it, and it is loaded.

EFS answers instantly — what imported, what failed and why, reported to the person who did the load, who corrects and reloads in the same sitting.

  • No code, no credentials, no monitoring
  • No retest at every EFS release
  • No notice to us before you change your own system

The trade: the ledger is current as of the last load, and somebody has to do the load.

Bulk Import + Interface

Everything above, plus a standing authenticated connection exchanging more frequently, without a person in the loop. It buys currency. It does not replace Bulk Import — you build and keep that too, as the fallback.

Rejections return to a queue, not a person. Nothing is watching unless something is built to watch.

  • A named technical owner and backup, permanently
  • Monitoring, alerting, and someone who reads the rejection queue
  • Retest at every EFS release — twice a year, indefinitely
  • Written notice before any change to your system

Everything it asks for exists to replace the person who, on the other route, was already there.

Nobody is refused. The question is never who deserves an interface — it is what the extra frequency buys, and whether it is worth a permanent connection.

How the decision actually gets made

  • Bulk Import is the floor, not a consolation. Every system that exchanges data with EFS gets it, and it is built and kept tested whichever route you end up on.
  • The next page decides which assessment applies to you — the twelve Bulk Import questions, or the full eleven domains. It is a scoping question, not a decision about what you get.
  • The assessment decides what you qualify for. Pass the full one and a standing interface is added on top of Bulk Import. Fall short and you qualify for Bulk Import — the same transactions, the same ledger, coded the same way.
  • You will see what you qualify for, your score, and a list of exactly what this system still needs, before you send anything.

Why you complete this and not us: central finance can tell you a batch balanced. It cannot tell you whether the transactions in it are right — whether that fee belongs to that appropriation, whether the amount matches what was collected. Only you know that.