Billing with Down Payment Processing
Use
Settlement using down payment processing is only possible if in Customizing for Financial Accounting you have set the correct field status for the additional account assignment.
This applies to the following fields:
Sales order
WBS element (required setting if you want to use account assignment to a project)
If the fields required for additional account assignment are ready for input, the system deletes the reference information regarding the down payment in
Accounts Receivable Accounting
(FI-AR
). This means that down payments can be settled by a partial or final invoice.If the fields for additional account assignment are hidden, the system cannot assign the down payments to the sales order. This means that down payments cannot be settled by a partial or final invoice.
If you settle without using down payment processing, you have to change the Customizing of Financial Accounting.
Activities
You can maintain the field status for additional account assignment in two places inCustomizing of Financial Accounting:
Choose
Financial Accounting Global Settings
Document
Line Item
Controls
Define Posting Keys.
If you enter the posting key while posting in
Financial Accounting
, the field status stored in the posting key determines which fields are ready for input in posting, which have to be input, and which are hidden.Choose
Financial Accounting Global Settings
Document
Line Item
Controls
Maintain Field Status Variants
In Customizing, you can assign several field status groups to a field status variant. The field status group determines which fields are ready for input, which have to be input, and which are hidden when you enter postings to the account.
You use the field status group to store these fields in each debit-side reconciliation account for down payment requests and down payments if you settle with down payment processing. Assignment takes place in the company code area specific to the G/L account master data in Financial Accounting.