Services

The system can use the following generic functions to add, update, and display information in billing due list items and billing documents:

Pricing (for determining prices, discounts, and taxes, for example)
Partner processing (for determining the sold-to party, ship-to party, payer, and bill-to party, for example)
Text processing (for determining texts that are to be included in the output of a billing document)
Action processing

Service Usage

Each service can be used for the following functions:

Determination
The system determines data according to your settings for the relevant services, and enters it in the billing due list item or billing document.
Display/editing
The system displays data from the original business transaction. In some cases, this data can be edited.

The following table shows the available services and their possible usage. The letter Y indicates full functional scope, the letter X indicates that a function is not supported.

	Input Processing (Data Transfer to Billing)				Creation of Billing Documents
Service/Usage	Prices	Partners	Texts	Actions	Prices	Partners	Texts	Actions
Determination	Y	X	X	X	Y	X	Y	Y
Display and Editing	Display only	Display only	Display only	X	Y	Display only	Y	Y

Example Example

Text processing does not determine any new texts during input processing, but instead copies texts from the billable business transaction. However, during billing itself, text processing is used to redetermine texts. You can display and edit these texts in the billing document. You can also create new texts.

End of the example.

Definition of Service Usage

You can determine which services are used and how they are used in the metadata for the billing application.

You modify metadata in Customizing for Customer Relationship Management, by choosing Start of the navigation path Billing Next navigation step Configure Application End of the navigation path and choosing Goto BE Navigator .