According to your credit policy, you define risk categories and assign them to individual customers, along with specific credit limits. In addition, you define credit groups for document types, known as document credit groups. Document credit groups combine order types and delivery types for credit control purposes. You can define a credit check for any valid combination of the following data:

• Credit control area

• Risk category

• Document credit group

You can define for each checking rule whether the system reacts with an error or a warning. In the case of a warning, the system automatically enters a credit status in the document and saves the document. The status text describes the result of the credit check. It tells you, for example, if the document was blocked because the customer's credit limit was exceeded. Depending on the requirements you define, the document is blocked for further processing for reasons of credit.