Household Record

Household records link accounts belonging to family members living at the same address to the head-of-household account.

This document contains the field name, field description, field number, mnemonic, data type, and default information for each field. Other pertinent information includes:

**Source**  
Indicates where the data in the field comes from:

    **User-entered**  
    The user creates the information in this field.

    **System-entered**  
    A system process populates the value for the field. This value can include data transmitted by the ATM network, when applicable.

    **System-calculated**  
    The system calculates but does not store the value of the field each time the field appears on an inquiry or file maintenance screen.

The Household record includes the following fields, which are defined here:

Household Type

This field stores a credit union-defined code that identifies the type of Household record.

Household Account

This field stores the account number of a family member’s account.

Enter the account number of a family member’s account (not the head-of-household account). You can type ***** to display and choose from a list of all account numbers.

If you do not enter an account number or enter an invalid account number, the system displays the message: If you enter the account number of the current account, the system displays the message: You must enter a valid account number.

Account Not Found

Cannot Be Current Account

Whenever you enter an account number in this field in a non-head of household Account record, the system creates another Household record under the Account record identified in this field and updates the Household Account field in the new Household record with the account number of the non-head of household account.

Record Change Date

The system stores the system date in this field when you create, change, or save the Household record. Sometimes the system updates this field because the record was saved, even though there may not be any actual changes in the record.

Note: The system does not change the Record Change Date when a calculated field changes.

You cannot change the value of this field.

Non-Displayed Fields

These Household fields do not appear in the system and are only accessed by PowerOn specfiles or SymConnect.

Note: As of Symitar Release 2025.00, the SymConnect API is fully decommissioned. All clients and vendors are required to transition to SymXchange.

Locator

This field stores a unique number within each member account that can be used as a unique identification of this record.

The system automatically assigns the value in this field when the record is created, and you cannot change it. The value is a positive number greater than zero and up to about two billion.

This field can be used during PowerOn file maintenance (both on demand and batch) to uniquely identify a record. Using this field is recommended since a record’s ordinal sequence number may change if someone else inserts or deletes a record with a lower ordinal sequence number just before you post your file maintenance.