Contract Account Category 

Definition

A contract account category defines certain attributes for a contract account.

Use

You have to assign a contract account category to each contract account when you create it. The fields that appear when you create a contract account are among the things controlled by the contract account category.

Structure

The contract account category determines the following contract account attributes:

·        Whether you are allowed to assign only one business partner or more than one to a contract account

·        Whether you are allowed to assign only one contract or more than one

·        Whether you are allowed to maintain a contract account online

·        The number range that is allowed for external or internal number assignment

·        Whether it is a collective bill account (industry component Utilities)

·        Whether it is a one-time account

·        Whether it is a deposit account and the account contains deposit contracts (industry component Insurance)

·        The editing screens or data fields that you can use to edit the contract account