Example: Payments on Account/Down Payments
The following example illustrates payments on account/down payment postings and updates posted in
Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
and updated in
Accounting
and
Funds Management
. The payments are evaluated as payment on account or down payment, according to your main/subtransaction and the
Payment Transaction
indicator .
You define the business transactions payment on account or down payment in Customizing for
Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
under
Business Functions
→
Postings and Documents
→
Document
→
Maintain Document Account Assignments
→(for example)
Maintain
Transactions for Industry Component Utilities
by setting the indicator
Payment Transaction
for the main and subtransactions in the section
Maintain Document Account Assignments
in the activity for your industry component.
Down payment postings (for example, cash security deposits) also have the indicator
Down Payment
in the business partner item. The system sets the indicator
Down Payment
in the tax data of a document, for example, for statistical line items.
Both payment transactions are managed in the system as FM category
G
(
payment on account
) and
H
(
down payment
). A differentiated update is therefore possible in
Funds Management
. In
Funds Management
, payments on account are posted as payment documents and down payments are posted as down payment documents.
Down payments are always updated in
Funds Management
. However, payments on account are only updated when you have activated the
Payment Matching
in
Funds Management
. In the SAP standard system, payments on account are not updated in
Funds Management.
The example below shows down payment postings for property tax ( 200). The business partner item is flagged as an FM update-relevant item with the FM category H (down payment) and is updated in the separate FM account assignment Revenue 2.
For simplification, the figure illustrates only one payment document. This means that the amounts of the line items and the data records of the totals table are the same.
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