Payment Matching Prerequisites

The Financial Accounting and Funds Management data can only match on payment matching if the following conditions are fulfilled. Otherwise, variances will occur which the program will display accordingly.

Customizing Settings

  • You have to use the enhanced function of the payment selection.

  • The fiscal year variants of all company codes have to match the fiscal year variant of your FM area. This means that you can only use one fiscal year variant throughout the whole system.

  • You must define the currency type for the currency integration. You enter this setting in the Funds Management Customizing step Enter Other Settings.

You must have defined that you are working on a payment basis and that payments are updated with the posting date in the active Update Profile .

  • The time period for the reduction of purchase order commitments must be the invoice receipt or the goods receipt and invoice receipt.You enter this setting in the Funds Management Customizing step Enter Other Settings.

  • During budget transfers, you must take the following into account: If it is determined in the Customizing of Funds Management that the Value Added Tax is gross, then you must choose Backdated Tax Calculation when executing program SAPF181, which distributes the cash discount expenses when paying an invoice. If the value added tax is "separate", you may not set this indicator.

For more information about program SAPF181, see the program documentation and Transferring Payments .

Assigning G/L account commitment item with correct financial transaction

G/L account

Commitment with financial transaction

Bank and check clearing accounts

90 or 80

Clearing accounts for cross-company code and therefore also cross-FM area transactions

50

In the reconciliation account for the down-payment settlement

30

Bank accounts

90

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All postings that lead to a change in monetary holdings must be transferred to Funds Management. If these postings are not budget-relevant they must still be updated statistically. You have to assign a commitment item to the G/L accounts with financial transaction 30 and mark the commitment item as Statistical in the master record. Alternatively, you can use User exit SAPLFMFA (enhancement SAPLFMFA, component EXIT_SAPLFMFA_001, development class FMFS, transaction CMOD) for the statistical update.

If you use financial transaction 50, you should check if commitment items with the financial transaction are addressed for postings leading to a change in monetary holdings. If this is the case, you should use statistical commitment items with financial transaction 30 instead.

Integration of FM with Other Components of the SAP System

  • Integration with Materials Management

    It must be defined in Customizing of Funds Management Government, in step Make Other Settings for the updating of the goods receipt/invoice receipt, that both the goods receipt and the invoice receipt are to be updated ( Indicator GR and IR ), or that the redemption of purchase order commitments occurs at the time of the invoice receipt (indicator MM invoice receipt).

  • Integration with Travel Management

    Depending on whether the trip costs advances are budget-relevant or not, you have to choose the following settings:

    • Advance payments are not budget-relevant

      A commitment item with financial transaction 30 has to be assigned to the account "Trips cost advance".

    • Advance payment is budget relevant and is to be displayed as payment

      A commitment item with financial transaction 30 has to be assigned to the account "Trips cost advance". In the clearing account for the employee a commitment item with financial transaction 90 has to be defined.

  • Integration with Payroll Accounting

    Commitment items with financial transaction 30 must be assigned to the accounts relevant to payroll accounting. You must define a commitment item with financial transaction 90 for the employee in the clearing accounts.

User Activities

You are not allowed to carry out the following postings in Financial Accounting:

  • Residual items without invoice reference

  • Postings in which commitment items with financial transaction 30, 60 and 90 are posted into a document, whereby the amount of the 30th commitment item is bigger than the amount of the 90th commitment item.

    Note Note

    Note: avoid customer and vendor transfer postings because the processing of complex transfer posting documents can seriously affect the performance of the payment selection.

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Preparing the Payment Matching

If you do not activate the payment matching immediately on production startup, but want to activate it later on, then different scenarios are feasible which also require a different procedure. For more information, read Correct Data for Payment Matching .