This process is suitable for the following transactions:

• Posting invoices with mass amounts of data for which no item check is required
• Posting invoices referring to transactions not yet entered in the system

When verifying invoices in the background, you enter only a small set of document header data, such as the invoice amount, the currency and the tax information. You also allocate the invoice to another system document. The system saves the data and allocation criteria you enter.

At a later point, the system verifies the invoice in the background. It uses the allocation criteria you entered to determine the item list. It then calculates the net total from the item list.

If the net total = gross amount invoiced - tax amount (+/- tolerance), the system posts the invoice in the background.

If the net total ¹ gross amount invoiced - tax amount (+/- tolerance), the system does not post the invoice in the background. It saves the document header data and the items determined in the background; the saved document then has to be processed manually in Invoice Verification.

With Invoice Verification in the background, the system does not check for any quantity or price differences at item level. Since you do not enter any actual invoice item data, the system uses the default data for comparison.

You can also use Invoice Verification in the background for invoices:

• Whose items have already been entered online
• That have already been verified in the background as containing errors and which you subsequently corrected

If you use Invoice Verification in the background in these cases, the system calculates the net total from the actual values you entered and not from the default values.

Invoice Verification in the background is run using program RMBABG00.

Your system administrator defines different jobs for each Invoice Verification type to start the program for verifying invoices in the background.

Entering a vendor invoice for posting in the background involves:

After invoices have been verified in the background, you may have to:

• Check the posted documents by creating a list of the documents posted
• Process the documents that were not posted