ČSOB CEB

A new dimension of electronic banking for your business

Benefit 1
Online overview of your accounts, transactions and balances
Benefit 2
Mobile application CEB Mobile for Android and iOS devices
Benefit 3
Payment cards overview and management
Benefit 4
Online user rights administration
ČSOB CEB

Key advantages

Benefit 1
Easy and secure payments
high level of security with chip cards or Smart key application
Benefit 2
CEB Info
selected notifications on your accounts or cards via e-mail or SMS
Benefit 3
Virtual branch
setup and administration of banking products remotely

How to arrange ČSOB CEB

  1. Contact us via your SME or Corporate branch.
  2. We will go through the options needed to setup the service.
  3. We will also setup other features ČSOB CEB offers.

ČSOB CEB

ČSOB CEB offers you complex overview and administration of your business accounts and other banking products. Besides traditional e-banking features - i.e. accounts overview and payments initiation - there is even more for your additional comfort, for example:

  • Connectivity to your ERP to automate payments processing
  • Payment cards overview and administration
  • Virtual branch with electronic signing of contracts and other documents
  • Online setup of user rights within your company
  • Mobile application with key functions of the CEB service

Service versions

ČSOB CEB is offered to entrepreneurs and companies to administer their products held at the bank. We offer it in two versions, packages:

  • CEB – for smaller companies and entrepreneurs, basic service version with up to 5 users, up to 10 accounts connected and only single authorization of payments.
  • CEB Plus – for larger companies and corporates, with full set of functions and advanced setup options.

Service setup

Feel free to contact us via your SME or Corporate branch and we will go through the options needed to setup the service:

  • Users entitled to administer or just view your accounts and other products
  • Accounts you would like to have online
  • Authorization rights for transactions
  • Users entitled to act on behalf of your company within Virtual branch
  • Users that can easily setup access rights for other users within contract online (administrators)
  • Other features ČSOB CEB offers

To logon to the service, you can use either chip cards or username and password combined with Smart key application - you set the security level yourself.

 

How does CEB work

ČSOB CEB offers much more than traditional e-banking applications. Read more about the functions you can use!

Intuitive user interface with autocomplete feature
Possibility to control accounts of more companies within one contract

Accounts and services overview:

  • Overview of your accounts together with most important information on them
  • Account movements overview with search and filtering features
  • Statements and advices in various formats - PDF and data extract for your ERP Individual and mass download of statements and other data
  • Online overview of orders waiting for processing and rejected orders
  • Possibility to export data in a table form for further processing within your company

Payments

  • Enter domestic, cross-border and other payment types in an intuitive interface
  • Use bulk payments
  • Import payment batches from your software
  • Control accounts even outside of ČSOB via SWIFT network (MT101)
  • Set up sophisticated authorization rules with combination of up to three signatures
  • Perform four-eye check (verification) of each payment prior to authorization

Cards

  • Set up or change limits for payment cards
  • Enable or disable e-commerce transactions on the card (CNP transaction)
  • Get overview of transactions = done by each card
  • Download card statements (PDF or table) for further processing

CEB Info brings you notifications in following situations:

  • Transaction is being posted to one of your accounts (specific transaction type, specific amount etc.)
  • One of your accounts met pre-defined limit for the balance
  • There are transactions waiting for authorization
  • Change in user or accounts setup took place

We can also provide you with regular information – you can retrieve account statements, FX lists or notification on payment card expiration this way. CEB Info can be easily setup online. Note that sending information via SMS is charged service.

Service administration provides online setup for users, accounts, authorization rules and other contract attributes:

  • Change access rights for users
  • Change limits per user and limits per account
  • Set up authorization rules for accounts (i.e. who can sign what transaction)
  • Set up possibility to change imported batches

Administrator can perform these changes individually, with the confirmation via electronic signature. If required, there can be more administrators within the contract – optionally also four eyes principle can be used (two admins have to confirm change together).

Business Connector

  • Automated transfer of data (payment batches) from your ERP to the bank
  • Payment batches can be signed within ERP, following the CAdES standard (by the same users that would sign them within service), in that case they will be processed
  • Or you can transfer data without signature – in that case we will save them to the waiting room for later review and signing online
  • Automated download of data – statements and advices – for further processing within your company, just set the target directory within your network or PC

More information is available at www.csob.cz/businessconnector.

Virtual branch will let you

  • Administer your products in the bank
  • Set up new products and services without need to visit your branch
  • Apply electronic signature to new contracts and similar documents
  • Have overview on your electronically signed documents

More on Virtual branch can be found at www.csob.cz/vp.

CEB Mobile application for your smartphones

  • Is available for both Android and iOS devices
  • Gives you immediate overview on your accounts and payment cards
  • Allows you to use most frequent functions of the CEB service

CEB Mobile functions and features are available at www.csob.cz/cebmobile.

Financial markets

  • Monitor FX rates online
  • Perform FX conversions online (including forwards and swaps)
  • Review deals that already took place for your company
  • Confirm financial market deals in case ex-post confirmation is required

FX trading is available to those who have concluded Framework agreement on financial markets with ČSOB – this agreement sets the persons entitled to conclude individual deals or to confirm such.

Support

Experienced specialists at our CEB helpdesk are ready to assist you both for service implementation and to solve individual questions. Feel free to contact them any working day from 7 AM to 6 PM.

The #jaknatoprofirmy page will guide mainly new users in the service – showing situations from first registration to specific service features, including Virtual branch, account setup etc. Note that the content there is available only in CZ language.

Service security

You can logon to the service with chip card or via username and password with additional confirmation in Smart Key application. Documents in the Virtual Branch can be signed either with a Smart key or I.CA certificate.

Communication towards bank is encrypted (https: protocol)
Chip card or Smart Key application can be used for authorization

We recommend to logon to the service always via bank homepage - this for the security reasons. Please, do not use entry via search engines, third parties web pages or links sent via e-mail. When logging in, be sure to check the page is using https: protocol (secured and encrypted connection) and that the certificate it is using is issued for Československá obchodní banka, a.s.

Formats

For higher payments automation level, payments can be entered not just by typing them, but also imported in pre-defined formats that are supported by your accounting software. Most of the accounting softwares also support processing of data extracts from the bank – therefore saving your time in pairing the accounting transactions to the statements. All payment batch formats below are supported also by Business Connector.

Import of batches and export of statements for connectivity to your ERP

System requirements

Hardware

ČSOB CEB is optimized for screen resolution 1024 x 768 px and more, with lower resolution some features (controls on the page) can be hidden.

Logon or signing with a chip card

  • Chip card reader and software SecureStore Card Manager enabling the communication between browser and the chip card
  • Chip card with valid certificate

Communication towards certification authority servers is required for proper authentication when using chip card. If needed, please check your network configuration (connectivity towards *.ica.cz, ports 80 and 443).

Logon or signing with Smart key application

  • Smartphone with Android or iOS and activated Smart Key application (Smart Key application can be used also for CEB Mobile)

Software

We do recommend following equipment dependent on authentication and authorization methods you choose:

Operating system

  • MS Windows 10 and 11
  • macOS 11 and higher

The operation system should be supported by its supplier - in general we recommend to keep the computer up-to-date with security enhancements recommended by the OS supplier.

Browser

  • Microsoft Edge (Windows)
  • Google Chrome (Windows and macOS)
  • Mozilla Firefox (Windows and macOS)
  • Safari (macOS)

Browser must support scripting (have it enabled) and cookies. In case you will use chip cards, plugins or add-ons are available per each browser (add-ons for Chrome, Chromium based Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox, JAVA for Safari in supported versions). Our applications and services are optimised for browsers introduced in the last year - similar to operating system, we recommend regular updates of the browser for your security.

Using other operating systems or browsers then above is possible, but functions or correct display of the information in the application cannot be granted.

Documents and downloads

Manuals and programs

We did our best for ČSOB CEB to be intuitive and user friendly. To better explain some of its features, documentation is provided too:

ČSOB CEB user manual

Manual for chip card users (Windows version)

Manual for chip card users (macOS version)

Installation guide – Mozilla Firefox extension

To use chip cards, SecureStore Card Manager is required in order to provide link between your browser and the chip card. Download latest version for your operating system:

SecureStore Card Manager – MS Windows 32bit

SecureStore Card Manager – MS Windows 64bit

SecureStore Card Manager – macOS

For chip card and Mozilla Firefox browser users there is extension available for this browser:

Mozilla Firefox extension

Other browsers will guide you through the steps required for chip card support.

Business Connector application for automated data transfers from your ERP towards the bank and the other way is available at separate page www.csob.cz/businessconnector.