On the SAP Easy Access screen under  Periodic Processing For Contract Accounts Payment Run , on the initial screen of the payment run (on the General Selections tab), you specify that direct debit pre-notifications are selected and processed. To do so, you set the Pre-Notified Items indicator and enter the execution date for the pre-notification.

For test purposes, you can also enter the pre-notification number itself as a selection criterion.

The payment run then pays the items based on the pre-notification, that is, it groups the selected items by pre-notification number and does not allow any additional sub-grouping. The payment run either pays a group of pre-notified items completely or not at all. If the amount of the pre-notified items is not the same as the collection amount, the system generates payment exception 52 (Direct Debit Pre-Notification with Different Amount) and does not pay the item.

Partial payment of items from a pre-notification is not possible.

If at the time of collection, the IBAN of the bank details to be selected is not the same as the IBAN in the pre-notification, the system generates payment exception 56 (Direct Debit Pre-Notification with Other Bank Account) and does not pay the item.

If the execution date named in the pre-notification is exceeded by a greater number of days than is entered in the settings in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, the system generates payment exception 55 (Debit Memo Notification Used Too Late) and does not pay the item.

In this case, either check the Customizing entry for the tolerance days or reverse the pre-notification in the mass run and create this again if necessary.