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An individual posting to a determined account that is assigned to a payment order.

 

You can create payment items in Payment Engine by importing a file. For more information, see File Handler (FS-PE-FH).

You can also create payment items manually, and change, reject, redirect, process, and postprocess individual payment items. On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose   Payment Engine   Payment Order Management   Edit Payment Orders (Expert)   (transaction /PE1/PO_EXPERT). For more information, see Edit Payment Orders (Expert).

Furthermore, you can process payment orders and their related items in batch using the Poller report. To run this report, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose   Payment Engine   Periodic Processing   Processes   Execute Processes   (transaction /PE1/POLLER).

Payment items have different statuses during straight-through processing (STP) that influence how the system processes the payment items.

A payment item typically has one of the following statuses:

  • Collected

    The payment item has already been assigned to an account, but is not yet included in the account balance.

  • Queued

    The payment item is waiting to be manually released or is scheduled to be processed later.

  • Posted

    The payment item has been posted to an internal account.

  • In Postprocessing

    The payment item has been removed from STP due to errors and requires manual postprocessing.

Payment items contain regulatory reporting data. In Payment Engine, regulatory reporting data is generally not referenced and is stored for regulatory and auditing purposes.

Some payment items also contain additional payment information, such as a note to payee or information about charges. You can define text modules for additional payment information in Customizing for Payment Engine under   Basic Settings   Text Modules  . You can also define the text that is attached to new payment items that are generated in Payment Engine in Customizing for Payment Engine under   Basic Settings   Text Modules   Define Payment Note for New Payment Item  .

Structure

Payment items are uniquely defined by the following parameters:

  • Clearing area

    Specifies the legally independent organizational unit where a payment item was created or imported from.

  • Payment item number

    Determined by a number range that you define in Customizing for Payment Engine under   Payment Items   Maintain Number Ranges of Payment Items  .

  • Payment item date

    Date retrieved from the reconciliation date. On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose   Payment Engine   Periodic Processing   End-of-Day Processing   Set PE Reconciliation Date   Set Reconciliation Date   (transaction /PE1/EOD_SET_DATE).

Every payment item comprises information that is stored as attributes and grouped on different tab pages. For more information, see Payment Order and Payment Item Overview.

Integration

All payment items share common properties and are assigned to a payment order.

Payment items are divided into the following categories:

  • Ordering party item

  • Recipient item

  • Clearing item

  • Turnover item

You can define transaction types for payment items in Customizing for Payment Engine under   Payment Items   Transaction Types and Transaction Types Groups  . These settings specify process control characteristics such as the checks to be made and a relevant field selection control. For more information, see Enrichment and Validation.

For auditing purposes, certain transactions must always be checked and authorized by at least one other employee. For this purpose, a release function with a connection to the workflow based on the principle of dual, treble, or quadruple control is used.

You define these specific settings in Customizing for Payment Engine under   Payment Items   Release for Payment Item  . For more information, see Release Workflow and Release Object POITEM (Payment Item).