Posting the Down Payment 

In the demo, we made the down payment manually. However, a payment program could also be used. The payment proposal list would contain the down payment if we entered the vendor in the payment parameters.

  1. Select in the SAP R/3 System screen Accounting ® Financial accounting ® Accounts payable.
  2. On the Accounts Payable screen, select Postings ® Down payment ® Down payment .
  3. On the Post Vendor Down Payment: Header Data screen, enter the following data:

    4. Field

    Data

    Document date

    Today’s date

    Company code

    1000

    Posting date

    Today’s date

    Reference

    Your comment from the first transaction

    Account (vendor)

    1006

    Special G/L ind.

    A (down payment on current assets)

    Account (bank)

    113101

    Amount

    11.600,00

    Value date

    Today’s date

  4. Select Requests.

    5. Existing down payment requests for vendor 1006 are displayed on the Post Vendor Down Payments: Choose requests screen.

  5. Mark the request you want and then select Create down payments.

    6. Bypass the warning that may appear on the Post Vendor Down Payment: Create Vendor Item screen by selecting Enter.

    On the Post Vendor Down Payments: Display Overview screen, an overview of the document to be posted is displayed.

  6. Select Document ® Post.

    7. The system confirms the document is posted by displaying the document number in the lower status line.

  7. Return to the main SAP R/3 System screen.