Object documentationBillable Item

 

The billable item represents an item that is to be billed. The creation of billable items is triggered by a business transaction or a business event.

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Business transactions or business events can initiate the creation of billable items. A billable item is an item that is to be billed.

A billable item class determines the technical characteristics of its billable items.

A billable item can have various statuses. Billing considers only those billable items that have the status Billable. Once these items are successfully processed during billing, the system sets the status Billed for them. The various statuses of billable items are reflected on a technical level using different database tables. There is one database table for each combination of status and billable item class. An exception to this rule is the status Billed. For this status, you can specify how many tables are used, and how they are to be used.

In relation to the database tables used, the system also differentiates based on the following record types:

  • Main items, which represent the actual receivable or payable

  • Record types that are dependent on the main items, because they represent supplementary information for them

The system stores the main items in separate database tables from those for the individual record types.