POS Interface - Inbound: Integration in Financial Accounting 
POS Interface - Inbound: Integration in Financial Accounting
Use
For accounting purposes, the sales transactions in the POS systems must be modeled adequately in the central Financial Accounting system at least. Depending on the information requirements of your company, the level of detail updated in R/3 Financial Accounting can vary.
Features
The following types of accounts are updated in R/3 Financial Accounting by the sales data from daily operations:
A material stock account contains the stock of an article or merchandise category evaluated at delivered prices. Material stock accounts are updated by Inventory Management. A consumption account is posted as an offsetting account.
The revenue that accrues as a result of sales transactions in the POS systems is posted to the revenue accounts. The offsetting accounts are financial accounts or customer accounts.
These accounts contain the balance for the individual means of payments allowed in the POS systems. For example, there could be one financial account for cash and one for checks. At POS outbound, the POS systems send R/3 the information on which sales revenue was made with which means of payment. The relevant financial accounts are then updated in R/3 Financial Accounting.
If a sale is to be settled by a customer using a non-cash means of payment (for example, if the payment type Invoice is used), an open receivable is posted for the customer. In this case, the amount will be posted to the customer’s account. It will be cleared when the customer settles the bill.
Credit card payments are handled differently. The retailer does not claim against the customer who purchased the goods in the store but against the clearing house. In this case, an open item is updated on the account assigned to the payment card company.