Cross-Business Partner Payment

Use

If the paying business partner is not also the holder of the contract account for which the items are to be paid, you can enter an alternative paying business partner. This ensures that the open items for the affected business partners (account holder and payer) are paid together with one payment.

Integration

In the contract account, you can specify another paying contract account for the same business partner, just as you can for a contract account. This ensures that open items for both accounts are paid together with one payment.

Prerequisites

Collective payment is only possible if the parallel processing object for the payment run is the business partner.

Features

The following example is to clarify cross-business partner payment.

Business partner	Contract account	Paid by business partner	Paid by contract account
SON	V-SON	FATHER	V-FATHER
DAUGHTER	V_DAUGHTER	FATHER	V-FATHER
FATHER	V-FATHER

This means that the open items for the SON and DAUGHTER business partners are collected together with the open items for the FATHER business partner, along with the payment method in the account V-FATHER. Only one debit memo collection takes place from the V-FATHER account.

In this case, the payment data for the business partner V-VATER is also valid for the payment of items on the V-SON and V-DAUGHTER accounts.

Locks on the V-FATHER account prevent the collection of items on the V-SON and V-DAUGHTER accounts. However, locks on the V-SON account only prevent the collection of items on the V-SON account, but not the collection of items on the V-DAUGHTER or V-FATHER accounts.

The payment run skips the items for the V-SON and V-DAUGHTER accounts. These are not included in the log. The items from V-SON and V-DAUGHTER are only reread and paid when processing the items for the V-FATHER account.

The items for the V-SON and V-DAUGHTER accounts are not paid, if the payment run does not select business partner FATHER.

Activities

To define an alternative payer, choose one of the following paths:

Roles

Start of the navigation path Process contract account master data Next navigation step (SAP_FI_CA_CONTRACT_ACCOUNT) Change contract account End of the navigation path

SAP Menu

Start of the navigation path Master data Next navigation step Contract account Change End of the navigation path

Enter the appropriate contract account, for which you want to define an alternative payer, and choose Continue.
Choose the Payments/taxes tab page, and define the alternative payer there in the Alt. payer field in Incoming payments .