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You can use this function to schedule billing runs for an account, to bill the business partner for the due items (such as installments and charges).

Integration

The system sends the receivables determined in the billing run to the bill creation system as billing items. In addition, details on the receivables from the pricing conditions are transferred at the end of the calculation period. You can use these details to create a billing notification or a bill statement. The system forwards the billing items to the open item managing system, which creates open items accordingly. For more information, see Communication with the Open Item Management System.

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You need to have fulfilled the following prerequisites to be able to schedule billing runs for an account:

  • You have made the settings in Customizing for Account Management (FS-AM) under   Product Management   Billing   in the following IMG activities:

    • Define Lead Days for Billing Category 01 and 06

    • Define Number Range for Billing Items

    • Define Payment Details Types for Billing

    • Define Response to Order in Previous Billing Period

  • You have made billing settings for the account product attributes under    Product Management   Product Definition   Product Categories   Edit Attributes for Account Products   Used Attributes   Billing  

    • Billing Category

    • Determine Billing Items for Prev./Current Period

    • Number of Periods for Billing Category 03

    • Number of Lead Days

    • Working Day Shift for Bill Creation Date

    You have also made the appropriate settings under the Time Periods node.

  • To enable the system to transfer the payment items for an account to account billing, you have set the Other Price or Other Receivable indicator for the transaction type in Customizing for Account Management (FS-AM) under    Item Management   Basic Functions   Transaction Types and Transaction Type Groups   Maintain and Assign Transaction Types for Payment Items  .

Features

For accounts that are assigned to a product with the Account Billing feature, you define the procedure and points in time for the billing runs on the Billing tab page in the account master data.

The account billing function comprises the following functions:

  Account   Account Billing (Individual Processing of Accounts)  :

Periodic Tasks (Mass Processing of Accounts):

  Logs   Account Billing  

  • Application Log - Account Billing

  • Application Log - Reverse Account Billing

  • Application Log - Correct Account Billing

Billing Correction

Activities

To schedule billing runs for an account, make the following settings in the account master data:

  • Set the Relevant for Billing indicator in the Payment Item Control group box on the Posting Data tab page.

  • Make entries in the following fields on the Billing tab page (the product and the billing category determine whether or not these fields are displayed):

    • Billing Category

    • Determine Billing Items for Previous/Current Period

    • Number of Lead Days

    • Number of Periods for Billing Category 03

  • Dependent on the settings in the product, define on either the Payment Details or Payment Advice tab page the payment details to be used by the open item management system for posting of billing items.