Selecting the Bank Details of a Business Partner (SAP Library

Selecting the Bank Details of a Business Partner

Use

If the payment method being used requires the customer/vendor’s bank details and these have not been specified, the payment program selects the bank details allowed for that method. The bank details allowed must be specified in the customer/vendor master record. The payment program selects the bank details that meet all the requirements of the payment method:

If a collection authorization is necessary for the payment method, the customer/vendor master record must contain a collection authorization for bank details.

If only bank details for banks located in the same country are allowed for the payment method, the payment program selects an appropriate bank.

If the payment method specifications require the bank to be a postal check office or postal giro office, the payment program selects an appropriate bank. You determine in the bank master data whether a bank is a post office bank.

If, after all the criteria have been checked, the payment program chooses several banks, it uses the first bank that fulfills all the terms. If the payment being used also requires the program to select the optimal bank for payment, further checks, involving the house banks, are necessary. Read the topic Optimizing Bank Selection.