Payment Cards in Deliveries 

Use

Although there is no card information stored in the delivery, the system does carry out several checks in the delivery relevant to payment cards. These checks ensure that:

·        All expired authorizations are detected and reauthorized

·        Any changes to the delivery quantity are covered by the authorization or authorizations that were granted in the sales order

Features

To make sure that the authorizations in the sales order are still valid when you deliver your product, the system checks the authorizations when you create a new delivery or change an existing one.

The system determines whether the authorizations are valid at the time of delivery based on the general validity period that you set for all authorizations in the SAP System. You set this period in Customizing for Sales and Distribution by choosing Billing ® Payment cards ® Authorization and settlement  ® Specify authorization validity periods.                                                     

If the authorizations are no longer valid, the system sets the authorized amount in the sales order to "0" and warns you to reauthorize the sales order. At the same time, the system sets the delivery status to Not approved. This status in the document header can be used to control the posting of goods issue, or other subsequent functions. For more information on controlling subsequent functions in the delivery, see Customizing for payment cards in the Billing section of the IMG.

If you change the delivery amount, the system compares the new sales order value to the authorized amount. If the authorization does not cover this new value, the system warns you to reauthorize the sales order.