The settings for clearing control are made in the Implementation Guide (IMG). Choose
Make the following settings:
Define grouping and sort characteristics
Define amount check group
Define clearing variants
Define clearing categories
Define clearing types
Define specifications for payment receipt
Define specifications for account maintenance
The decision about
Whether and how an incoming payment from a payment lot, for example, is cleared with open items,
Whether and how receivables and credit, for example, can be assigned to one another in account maintenance,
Whether and how credit on a clearing account can be cleared with receivables on referencing accounts,
is defined and made in the clearing variant, or the clearing steps for a clearing variant.
In order to be able to set up clearing variants, define sort and grouping characteristics, as well as amount check limits if required.
A clearing variant is uniquely linked to a payment receipt process (such as a payment lot), or an account maintenance process, by the assignment of a clearing type (
Specifications for payment receipt
and
Define account maintenance
). You assign one clearing variant for each process. You can assign a clearing variant to multiple processes.
You can use an alternative clearing variant to override a clearing variant, which is assigned to a process through the clearing type. You define the alternative clearing variant for a clearing category, which is assigned to the clearing type, and therefore also to the process. Clearing category control is account-related: Enter a clearing category in the contract account master data.
In the
Specifications for payment receipt
and
Account maintenance
, you can set more parameters for clearing variants (such as whether postings on account are permitted, or whether items due in the future can be taken into account if you specify grace days).