Communicating Transaction Data of External Cash Desks Using Enterprise Services

As part of your communications with external cash desks, you can use enterprise services in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable to:

Process deposits, withdrawals, and cash desk differences of external cash desks
Enter G/L postings and down payments for external cash desks or branches
Check the cash balances of external cash desks and payment collectors (branches)

Prerequisites

You made the required settings in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Start of the navigation path Business Transactions Next navigation step Payments Processing Incoming/Outgoing Payments External Cash Desk Services End of the navigation path in the following activities:

Make Specifications for Posting Cash Desk Deposits and Withdrawals
Define Accounts for Expense/Revenue from Cash Desk Differences

Features

The external cash desk services make the following enterprise services available, whereby the transfer of data between the SAP system and the external cash desk system can be synchronous or asynchronous using Process Integration (PI) .

Enterprise Service	Function
CashPointDepositERPNotification	Asynchronous process that sends deposits made at external cash desks to Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
CashPointDepositERPCancellationNotification	Asynchronous process that sends reversals of deposits made at external cash desks to Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
CashPointDifferenceERPNotification	Asynchronous process that sends difference postings made at external cash desks to Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
CashPointDifferenceERPCancellationNotification	Asynchronous process that sends reversals of difference postings made at external cash desks to Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
CashPointWithdrawalERPNotification	Asynchronous process that sends withdrawals made at external cash desks to Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
CashPointWithdrawalERPCancellationNotification	Asynchronous process that sends reversals of withdrawals made at external cash desks to Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
CashPointPaymentCreateNotification	Asynchronous process that sends G/L account postings made at external cash desks to Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
CashPointPaymentReverseNotification	Asynchronous process that sends reversals of G/L account postings made at external cash desks to Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
CashPointERPBalanceByIDQuery	Synchronous process that requests the cash balance of an external cash desk or an external payment collector (branch)
CashPointERPBalanceByCashPointOfficeIDQuery	Synchronous process that requests the cash balance for individual external payment collectors (branches)

For offline branches and agents, SAP makes the following enterprise services available for postings to G/L accounts and in the cash journal, as well as for reports on the cash balance.

Enterprise Service	Function
CashPointPaymentCreateNotificationService	G/L account postings
CashPointDepositERPNotificationService	Posting of deposits
CashPointWithdrawalERPNotificationService	Posting of withdrawals
CashPointDifferenceERPNotificationService	Posting of differences

For the inbound XI messages, the FI-CA system attempts to generate the postings directly. The FI-CA system assigns status R to postings that it is not able to generate directly. For these failed G/L account postings, the system creates a payment lot, which you can then close and post in the monitor. If a lot receives Postprocessing status after posting has taken place, you later have to clarify the payment lot items involved.

The following enterprise services are available for reversing postings:

Enterprise Service	Function
CashPointPaymentReverseNotificationService	Reversal of G/L account postings
CashPointDepositERPCancellationNotificationService	Reversal of deposits
CashPointWithdrawalERPCancellationNotificationService	Reversal of withdrawals
CashPointDifferenceERPCancellationNotification Service	Reversal of difference postings

The SAP system receives the PI messages and posts the reversal directly in FI-CA. Reversals that the system cannot make directly receive status D.

You can optimize the runtime for message processing by setting the Optimization Active indicator in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Start of the navigation path Business Transactions Next navigation step Payments Processing Incoming and Outgoing Payments External Cash Desk Services Make Basic Settings End of the navigation path . For more information about how the system achieves this optimization, see the documentation for the indicator.