Online Payment 
Payment Posting
During an online payment (incoming or outgoing payment) the user does not have to perform specific steps to achieve the automatic Argentine discount handling. The cash discount amounts are determined by taking into account the payment conditions and the date of the payment. Furthermore, all the standard cash discount features are available:
· Activate and deactivate the cash discount for an open item
· Maintain the cash discount amount for an open item
When the payment document is posted, two things happen:
· Vendor/customer lines are generated in the payment document representing the credit memo for cash discounts.
· Cash discount documents are posted.
When posting the payment a window appears. This shows the document number of the payment document and all discount documents generated together with it.
Generation of Discount Documents
The vendor/customer items of cash discount documents are cleared by the payment document. Normally, each vendor/customer line of a discount document has the invoice reference field filled with the original item it belongs to, that means, with the open item that was paid. If the paid item had already an invoice reference to another item, this invoice reference is taken over to the discount document item.
No invoice reference can be made to documents that are no invoices, for example, credit memos. If such a document is paid with cash discount, the corresponding discount document contains no invoice reference.
The posting keys 08 and 18 for customer lines, 28 and 38 for vendor lines and 40 and 50 for G/L lines, depending on the debit/credit indicator, are used for the discount documents.
If you pay several open items with cash discounts the amounts are summed up and posted together in one or more documents according to the following rules.
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1. One discount document per master item:
2. If you have one open item (the master item) and other open items with a reference to the master item and these items are all paid together, only one discount document is generated. The vendor/customer lines of this discount document get an invoice reference to the master item.
3. Cash discount amounts belonging to the same master item are summed up if the tax code is identical. Also, cash discount postings are split according to business area.
The discount document contains tax line items corresponding to the tax data of the item that was paid. The tax amounts are recalculated using the tax codes assigned to the paid item.
If the item that was paid contained withholding tax information, this information will also be stored with the corresponding vendor/customer line item of the discount document with base amounts according to the discount rate.
If a business area was entered for the item that was paid, this business area is taken over to the vendor/customer and to the G/L line item in the discount document.
Down Payments
The automatic generation of cash discount documents also takes place if a down payment with cash discount is posted.
Payment Program
The general processing is very similar to the online payment transaction. Discount amounts are calculated automatically according to the payment conditions of the open items. If you want to maintain discount amounts, you can do so while editing a payment proposal (for details on generating and editing payment proposals, refer to the system documentation of the payment program).
Discount documents are listed in the payment list for Argentina (report J_1AF028).
Cash Discounts for Invoices Posted in SD
If a discount document is generated for an item of an invoice that was posted in SD (to be more precise, a billing document was created in SD and the corresponding accounting document was posted automatically), the handling of taxes is different from the normal case.
The tax code of the accounting document does not contain enough information to recalculate the correct tax amounts for the discount document. Therefore, the tax amounts are taken proportionally from the invoice and posted with the same tax code as the paid item.