Entering Payment Requests

  1. In the SAP menu, choose Start of the navigation path Accounting Next navigation step Public Sector Management Next navigation step Funds Management Next navigation step Posting Next navigation step <type of request> Next navigation step Enter. End of the navigation path

    If you want to enter a payment request, choose Payment Request from the menu.

  2. Enter the document header data.

    If an FI document type was assigned to the request type, this document type is displayed as a recommendation value when entering the request.

    Note Note

    Start of the navigation path If you would like to enter many documents with the same header data, you can make the work easier by saving the document header data. To save the data, choose System Next navigation step User Profile Next navigation step Hold Data End of the navigation path

    End of the note.

    In the Default Data Items you can define data that the system transfers to every document of the payment request.

  3. Choose Continue .

  4. On the subsequent screen, enter:

    • – The sub-ledger account (vendor or customer)

      The payment details defined in the vendor/customer master record are copied to the different payee, if the copy function is activated in Customizing for every company code processed. The indicator, stipulating that different payees can occur in the document, must also be set in the vendor master record.

    • – The account assignment (commitment item and funds center) and, if required, the funds commitment

      If you enter a funds commitment then the system transfers the specifications from it to the account assignment and to the vendor/customer (if maintained in the funds commitment). If you want to enter a commitment item in the request that is different to the commitment item in the funds commitment, the Account assignment changeable option must be flagged.

    • – The payment data

      If it is an accounting transaction which is relevant to tax, enter the respective tax code here (input tax for payment requests, VAT for acceptance requests).

      If you set the Calculate tax indicator, the system calculates the tax amount automatically. You can control which values are calculated by the system by using the user parameter F02.

      If you are working with

      Then

      User parameter F02 not set

      (Standard delivery)

      The program calculates the tax amount based on the tax code entered from the amount field and writes the tax amount calculated in the Tax field.

      User parameter F02 set

      The program calculates the tax amount based on the tax code entered from the amount field and writes the tax amount calculated in the Tax field. The tax amount calculated is written in the Tax field. The program also calculates the total from Amount and Tax and uses this total to overwrite the Amount field.

      You set the user parameters by flagging Calculate Net Taxes in the application menu of the Financial Accounting component, for example, under Start of the navigation path Customers Next navigation step Environment Next navigation step User Parameters Next navigation step Editing Options. End of the navigation path

      For more information on tax handling, see:

      Handling Turnover Tax: Gross Procedure

      Handling Turnover Tax: Net Procedure

  5. You can save the payment request by choosing Start of the navigation path Request Next navigation step Save complete End of the navigation path .

Result

The system saves a parked FI document and issues a message containing the request number.

See also:

Cross-Request Functions

Navigation in the Request

Request Journal

Create Several G/L Account Items in Payment Request