Authorization (SAP Library - Payment Card Processing (SD-BIL-IV))

Authorization

Use

When a customer pays for goods and services using a payment card, the card number, the relevant amount and the payer’s name and address are forwarded to the clearing house for authorization. The clearing house checks this information, and either authorizes the transaction or turns it down. A successful authorization is a guarantee of payment.

Prerequisites

You require a third-party software to carry out authorization.

The system relies on settings in Customizing for payment cards to determine how and when to carry out authorization.

Risk Management affects authorization process.

Features

With the authorization functions in payment card processing, you can:

Set the system to authorize sales orders according to a certain set of requirements

Preauthorize sales orders

Automatically authorize sales orders

Manually authorize sales orders

Determine which colleagues are permitted to manually authorize sales orders (authorization profile V_VBAK_AAT)

Run a report to carry out authorizations in batch ( RV21A010)
Run a report to call up a list of sales orders with payment cards according to document features that you specify ( RV21A001)
Display complete current authorization information in the payment card plan

Use the authorization log to check the history of authorization changes in a sales order, including change dates and responsible parties (Choose Environment ® Changes)

Constraints

You can carry out authorization in the sales order only. Partial authorization of a sales order value is not possible.