Plan attached to the sales order header and billing document header that contains information on payment cards used in a transaction.

The payment card plan contains a header which displays:

• The authorized amount
• The total sales order value (net value + tax)
• The amount to be authorized for the next service or delivery as well as the date of the next service or delivery

You use these fields to process sales orders with multiple delivery dates.

The header includes a section on authorization, indicating:

• Whether requirements for the authorization were met
  
  The system uses the requirements that you set in Customizing to decide whether or not to authorize the sales order. For example, you could set the system to automatically authorize complete sales orders. Or, you could disallow authorization in the sales order and use a report to authorize in batch at a later time.

• Whether the system has set a block

• The call status of the authorization, detailing if transmission to and from the clearing house was successful and whether a response was received
• The results of checks by the clearing house on payment card data

A third section in the payment card plan contains card items and authorization items:

Card items contain detail on the payment card, such as card type, card number, expiration date, and billing information

• Authorization items contain detail on the authorization

For an overview of the authorization, scroll right in the authorization item. For detailed information, select an item and choose Detail. The system displays all current information pertaining to authorization, including codes, accounts, times, and dates.

Card items and authorization items at first glance may appear similar. To tell the difference between these items, note that authorization items:

• Do not have a Limit to indicator or a maximum amount
• Have a traffic light in the status field and authorized amount

There are two additional features at the bottom of the payment card plan. The first is the settled in billing docs button. This function provides you with billing information for cards in the payment card plan that have already been billed. The second feature is the manual authorization button. With this button, you can manually authorize a sales order during a telephone call to the clearing house. Manual authorization requires special permission determined in authorization profile V_VBAK_AAT.