Payment Cards in Master Data (SAP Library - Payment Card Processing (SD-BIL-IV))

Payment Cards in Master Data

Use

To quickly and efficiently process sales orders with payment cards, you can store card data in the payer master record. When you create a sales order, you simply call up a list of cards for the customer using the matchcode on the payment card number field. The system automatically copies the card data into the sales order for the card or cards that you choose from this list.

The one-time customer record is a collective account, in the master record, for a group of unrelated customers. For this reason, you cannot maintain payment card data for one-time customers.

Features

You can enter the following card information in the payer master record:

Card type, for example VISA, MC, or AMEX
Card number

The system checks the card numbers you enter to ensure that they correspond to the numbering standards of the relevant payment card company (for example, checking to make sure that a Visa card number begins with "4").This reduces the risk of having to go through a lengthy authorization process in the sales order with an incorrect card number.

The system also checks to ensure that a payment card belongs to only one customer. You cannot enter one payment card in two different master records.

Expiration date
Cardholder or company name as it appears on the card
Card category, such as credit card, customer card, or purchasing card
Blocking reason

If required, you can block the payment card by entering a reason, for example 01 for "card stolen". You maintain blocking reasons in Customizing for payment cards in the Billing section of the IMG.

Note

A block is for a particular payment card only. If one of the customer's payment cards is blocked, he or she may use another.

Also, a block does not effect sales documents that have already been created with the card. You can, however, run a standard search to determine all documents in which the card number is used.

Card valid-from date

Default card

You can assign a default card if there is more than one card for a customer. When you call up a list of cards for the customer in the sales order, this card is highlighted.