Clear Incoming Payments

 

With the transactional app Clear Incoming Payments, you can clear a receivable payment manually, such as an open incoming payment for a customer invoice. The system usually clears these payments automatically. However, sometimes customer information is missing and the system cannot find appropriate open items that match the payment. In this case, you have to clarify this payment, match it to the correct open invoices and credit memos as aligned with your customer, and clear the payment manually.

Key Features

  • View open incoming payments that you are responsible for in My Worklist

  • Obtain a list of open items that can be used to clear the open payments

  • Add or change the discount that is to be applied to each invoice

  • Apply any deductions using preconfigured deduction reasons

  • Post an incoming payment to a G/L account, if required with account assignment

  • Post an incoming payment on account, that is, to a customer or supplier account without reference to a specific item if clearing is not possible

  • Get a list of open items that is proposed based on the payment reference from the customer

  • Search for open items of selected customers or of all customers by means of fuzzy logic

  • View the withholding tax that has been posted for each open item

  • Create notes and attachments while posting the clearing document

  • Arrange open items using an invoice reference

  • Simulate the resulting journal entry

  • Clear the open payment with the selected open items that match the payment

  • Export the Open Items table to a spreadsheet

  • Create a dispute case for items which are partially paid only

  • Use promise-to-pay information to easily select items to be cleared

  • Save your own clearing proposals

  • Clear open items for a customer account instead of a payment

  • Clear open items for down payments by selecting Down Payments in the Line Item Type field

How-to Video on YouTube

This video shows you how to clear incoming payments manually.

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How to Use the App

Get a list of matching open items

The system proposes matching open items based on one of the following:

  • Customer account data

    The system lists all open items for that customer account in the Open Items table. From this table, you can manually select the items that you want to clear. No configuration is required for this search variant.

  • Payment reference information, such as invoice number or reason for payment

    The system searches for matching open items and proposes one or more matching open items directly in the Items To be Cleared table. In some exceptional cases, you may decide not to accept the clearing proposal but instead to select a different open item.

    Special configuration is required for this search variant. For more information, see App Implementation: Clear Incoming Payments

Clear open items for a customer account (account maintenance)

You can clear all kind of open items for a specific customer account within one company code without having to select a payment first. To do this, click Clear Open Items. You can use this action for the following use cases:

  • If you have an invoice for which a payment is not expected, you can use this action to clear the invoice against, for example, a credit memo.

  • If you want to clear multiple open items, for example, multiple payments or down payments of a specific customer in one step.

Related Back-End Transactions

The app is related to the following back-end transaction(s):

FB1D - Clear Customer

For more information, see SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/sfin200Information published on SAP siteStart of the navigation path Application Help Next navigation step SAP Library Next navigation step [Language] Next navigation step SAP Simple Finance Add-On Next navigation step Financial Accounting (FI) Next navigation step Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) Next navigation step FI Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable Next navigation step Clearing Next navigation step Clearing Accounts End of the navigation path

Navigation Targets

The app allows you to directly access other apps.

Note Note

These linked apps must either already be available in your system landscape, or you need to implement them along with this app.

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  • Manage Journal Entries

    You can navigate from the Open Items list of the Clear Incoming Payments app to the Manage Journal Entries app to view the posted journal entry of the corresponding open item.

Extensibility

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This app is not extensible.

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System Landscape Requirements

The app consists of front-end components (such as the user interfaces) and back-end components (such as the OData service). The back-end components and the front-end components are delivered in separate products and have to be installed in a system landscape that is enabled for SAP Fiori.

Back-End Components Delivered with (Product Version Stack)

SAP S/4HANA Finance 1605 SPS 7

Front-End Components Delivered with (Product Version Stack)

SAP Fiori for SAP S/4HANA Finance 1605 SPS 4

SAP Fiori System Landscape Options

Start of the navigation path http://help.sap.com/fiori_implementationInformation published on SAP site Next navigation step Required System Landscape Next navigation step With SAP NetWeaver 7.5 Next navigation step English Next navigation step Setup of SAP Fiori System Landscape Next navigation step Deployment Options End of the navigation path.

Note Note

This app runs on desktops only.

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Related Apps

  • Manage Journal Entries

    This app is an integral part of the Clear Incoming Payments app because it enables the simulation of the clearing.

Component for Customer Incidents

FI-FIO-AR