Creating a Customer Settlement Document from Single Settlement Requests

Use

You want to create one or more customer settlement documents based on settlement request lists so that you can charge customers for receivables or payables. To do this, the system creates an individual document for each customer. This individual document is then used to post data to the customer’s account.

Prerequisites

  • Using customer settlement documents instead of posting lists

At last one payment type must be entered in Customizing for Agency Business. The Customer Settlement Type field must contain an appropriate billing type. The payment type for the single settlement request determines if the system generates customer settlement documents or posting lists from the settlement request lists.

  • Billing

In Customizing for Agency Business, you can use the Additional Item Data field in the billing type to include purchasing condition records from the single settlement request for pricing in the customer settlement document. If you flag this field, the system determines the relevant data (for example, purchasing organization, invoicing party, alternative invoicing party) based on the single settlement request. If this is not done, the fields remain empty during price determination in the customer settlement document and any condition records relating to these fields are removed in price determination.

Furthermore, you can select a billing document type for the customer settlement document in the billing document type for the single settlement request. The billing document type that you select may vary from the billing document type that is defined in the settlement type. This enables you to enter individual documents with different billing document types (for example, credit memo or invoice) in the single settlement request list and generate customer settlement documents (or posting lists) based on this.

  • Subsequent Settlement

If you decide to use customer settlement documents to update bonus-related sales data for subsequent settlement in Purchasing, you must flag the Document Index Active indicator in the sales data area for the appropriate customer master record.

Note Note

Note that this indicator is only valid for customer settlement documents. If you also want to include single settlement requests for subsequently updating sales data, you must also flag the indicator Subsequent Updating Using Indicator in Customer Master in the subsequent settlement controls.

End of the note.

For more information, see Updating Sales Data From Customer Settlement Documents .

You require at least one settlement request list to be able to create customer settlement documents.

Procedure

  1. Select the preceding documents (settlement request lists) by document data or organizational data.

  2. The system groups all single settlement requests for a customer into a single customer settlement document using the relevant split criteria (for example, due data, Customizing settings).

  3. Post the customer settlement document.

For further information, see Posting Documents .

Result

The system generates accounting documents that are forwarded to Financial Accounting for further processing.