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Use

This function enables you to call up the payment program for payment requests. This is an additional option for automatic payment in the SAP System. Unlike the standard payment program, the payments are not based on open items (customer items) but on payment requests.

NoteFor more information, see the SAP Library under AC ® CFM Corporate Finance Management ® Transaction Manager ® Structure link Payment Program for Payment Requests.

Integration

The Payment program for payment requests can be used for the CFM components Money Market, Foreign Exchange, Derivatives, Securities and Loans (CML).

There is a link to the payment details. The system can, therefore, use the house bank specified in the payment details to update the payment data in Cash Management.

Prerequisites

Before you can use the Payment program for payment requests, you are required to make certain settings in Customizing for CFM in addition to settings in the payment program.

  1. Make the following settings in Customizing for CFM to generate payment requests in the money market, foreign exchange, derivatives, securities, and loans areas.
    1. In Customizing for Basic Functions, choose Define Number Ranges for Payment Requests and enter a number range for assigning number keys to payment requests.
    2. In Customizing for Cash Management, set up the planning levels for payment requests by choosing Define Levels in Payment Requests.
    3. Set up the Clearing account for payment requests in the chart of accounts and then assign it to the company code in Customizing for Basic Functions by choosing Define Clearing Account for Payment Requests.
    4. To generate Payment requests in the securities area, choose Define Company Code Additional in Customizing for Basic Functions and activate the standing instructions in the area headed Securities settings.

      5. You maintain the default values for payment requests in the standing instructions for the business partners. To do this, set the payment request flag and enter at least one payment method in the field headed List of payment methods.

      To generate a payment request for a transaction, choose Goto ® Payment request when you enter a transaction. A dialog box appears in which you maintain the payment details. The fields contain data from the standing instructions. To generate a payment request, you must flag the Payment request indicator.

      Exactly one payment request is generated per transaction by the net payment amount of the transaction. If a transaction contains several flows, they are grouped together to form one payment request.

      Note

      In the relevant posting record, the bank clearing account is exchanged for the clearing account for payment requests. The payment program for payment requests makes the clearing posting from the clearing account for payment requests to the original bank clearing account.

      Note The use of payment requests in the Securities area is subject to the following restrictions:

      1. You can only generate payment requests for transactions.
      2. The system only supports payment requests for G/L account postings. It does not support customer payment requests.
      3. Individual payments can always be made for the payment requests generated, irrespective of the settings made in the standing instructions for grouping payment requests.
    5. Before you can generate payment requests from transactions in the money market, foreign exchange and derivatives areas, you have to flag the payment request indicator for the three areas in Customizing by choosing Define Flow Types. This determines whether or not the individual flow types are allowed to generate payment requests. You can choose from the following:
      6.

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      Create payment request?

       

      None

      -

      For outgoing payments

      +

      For incoming payments

      X

      For outgoing and incoming payments

      If you want to generate payment requests for transactions with a business partner, you can define these in the standing instructions for payment details. (These entries are only effective if the settings made for payment requests allow them to be generated at flow level, as described above). To do this, flag the payment request indicator in the standing instructions of the payment details and enter at least one payment method in the field headed List of payment methods. These settings are the default values for the payment details for each transaction with the business partner.

      You make the final decision as to whether to generate a payment request, however, when you actually enter the transaction. If you do not want to generate a payment request, you can overwrite the default values from the standing instructions in the payment details for the transaction.

    6. For more information on the settings in the loans area, read the Structure link Payment Request section in the Loans Management (CML) documentation.
  2. You also make the relevant settings for payment requests in the Structure link Configuration of the payment program. These settings include your house banks, your bank accounts and the required payment methods and payment forms.

    See also the SAP library: AC ® Corporate Finance Management (CFM) ® Transaction Manager ® Payment Program for Payment Requests ® Customizing of the Payment Program.

Features

Activities

To start a payment run:

  1. Enter a date and payment run ID.

    2. All information relating to the payment run is stored under these values.

  2. Choose Edit ® Parameters ® Maintain. The Automatic Payment Transactions: Parameters screen appears. Enter the values for the parameters.
  3. The Dynamic selections function gives you the option of using other fields for selecting payment requests.
  4. You can create an additional log by choosing Additional log.
  5. You can include report programs for printing payment media and creating lists in the payment run by choosing Edit ® Print programs. On the following screen headed Automatic Payment Transactions: Print Programs, you define the required programs and variants.
  6. Save the parameters for the payment run.
  7. You now have the option of generating a proposal run or a payment run. Choose Edit ® Proposal ® Schedule payments or Edit ® Payment ® Schedule.
  8. Specify a starting time (or immediate start) and a computer, if required.
  9. If you create a proposal, you can display the log, payment list and exception list. You can also edit or delete the payment proposal. If you are satisfied with the payment proposal, execute the update run by choosing Edit ® Payments ® Schedule payments...
  10. At the end of the payment run the system generates the posting documents, the payment and exceptions lists and the payment media. This concludes the payment run.

Note

In the Structure link Payment program for payment requests documentation, you will find more detailed information.

In the SAP library, see AC ® Corporate Finance Management (CFM) ® Transaction Manager ® Payment Program for Payment Requests.

 

 

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