Purpose

In addition to managing your own receivables, you can use the FI-CA component Revenue Distribution to manage receivables for third parties. There are two variants for revenue distribution in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable:

Features

Some examples of situations in which you collect and forward revenues for third parties include:

Revenue distribution ensures that the amounts received are forwarded to the final recipients for whom they are intended.

Documents that contain receivables for third parties are designated as original documents. Revenue distribution posts distribution documents that show the corresponding amounts for the final recipient.

Classic revenue distribution can be used solely to distribute incoming payments that clear a receivable for a third party. When you post a receivables item of this kind, you have to specify the contract account of the final recipient to which the payment is to be distributed. This means that, in the standard system, exactly one final recipient receives the payments assigned to a receivables item. (However, you can split the amount among several final recipients using event 5400.)

In the standard system, with enhanced revenue distribution , you distribute assigned payments (receivables items cleared by payment). However, it is also possible for you to distribute unassigned payments (payments on account with a subtransaction designated as relevant for payment) and expected revenues (items that are still open, however no unassigned payments).

For expected revenues and unassigned payments, the system runs an estimated distribution. You have to estimate the distribution ratios of the final recipients in advance.

In contrast, the system always distributes assigned payments as final, since you can determine the distribution ratios uniquely in advance.