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 New Features for Service Charge Settlement in Flexible RE

The following new or changed features are available in the Service Charge Settlement component:

Master Data in Service Charge Settlement

In addition to rental objects, you can now assign business entities, properties, buildings, and other participation groups to participation groups. At the time of settlement, all rental objects that belong to these objects are considered for the participation group.

You edit the master data of service charge settlement in the RE Navigator.

When you create settlement units, the following default values are taken from Customizing:

For master settlement units, you can specify for each service charge key whether the apportionment is by measurement amount, equivalence number, or percent.

The settlement variant can likewise be assigned default values in Customizing for each service charge key. These values are then used when no value is specified on the business entity.

If you normally want to apportion a service charge key to more than one measurement type (such as 30% by floor area and 70% by consumption), you can specify a default value in Customizing for this as well. The value you specify in Customizing overrides any value entered directly in the service charge key.

External Settlement of Service Charges

To have service charges settled externally ("heating system" functionality of Classic RE), set the Data Exchange indicator when you create the settlement unit. The Settlement Company tab is then displayed, where you can enter the required data for the data exchange. The settlement unit on which you select this indicator then corresponds to the "credit-side SU/collective SU" of Classic RE, and also contains the data of the former “heating system.” For service charge keys that you want to settle externally, you must define a cost account in Customizing that is used to select the credit accounts.

Cost Object Settlement Unit

If you want the debit postings to be made on different settlement units (so that you can differentiate between individual service charge keys), set the Has Cost Object SUs indicator in the settlement unit. "Cost object settlement units" can then be assigned to this settlement unit. These can be posted to normally, but inherit the validity period and all other attributes (participants, distribution criteria, etc.) of the settlement unit to which they are assigned. The costs posted to these SUs are settled together with the higher-level SU they belong to.

Account Determination

Table TIVSCTRANSACC replaces the old account determination table TIV80. New here is an account for transferring costs of the cost object SU to the settlement unit to which they are assigned.

Settlement of Advance Payments and Flat Rates

Whether a condition type is an advance payment or a flat rate, and must therefore be included in the settlement, is no longer decided based on condition groups but is instead defined in Customizing as an attribute of the condition type. For advance payment condition types choose 0001 - Advance Payment and for flat rates choose 0002 - Flat Rates . You can also specify whether the advance payment should be posted as revenue.

When the service charge settlement is posted, the advance payments transferred to the objects during periodic posting are cleared. This requires that the corresponding reference flow types<DS:SIMG.REFX_VTIVCDFLOWRELSC>Referenzbewegungsarten<DS:SIMG.REFX_VTIVCDFLOWRELSC>Referenzbewegungsartenare defined in Customizing.

Adjustment of Advance Payments and Flat Rates

The contract conditions can now be adjusted based on the settlement result. To do this, assign an adjustment rule to the contract conditions.

For more information, see Adjustment of Conditions (Rent Adjustment) .

You have to set up default settings in Customizing and the new reference flow types manually. Note that settlement will not function unless you have made settings for the reference flow types.