Posting Down Payments 

Use

On receipt of the down payment request, the customer transfers the required amount to your company. In this step, you enter the down payment using the down payment request as a reference. The R/3 System then automatically sets the down payment as cleared.

Procedure

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    Accounting ® Financial Accounting ® Accounts Receivable ® Document Entry ® Down Payment ® Down Payment

    Transaction Code

    F-29

  2. Enter the following data:
    3.

    Field

    Data

    Document date

    Current date

    Company code

    1000 (is proposed)

    Currency

    EUR

    Account (in the Customer section)

    1600

    Special G/L ind.

    A (down payment)

    Account (in the Bank section)

    113100

    Amount

    Amount noted earlier

  3. Choose Requests.

    4. Because you are not permitted to balance down payments with receivables and liabilities from the delivery, the down payment is treated as a special G/L transaction both in G/L accounting and in accounts receivables accounting. Special G/L transactions are those that have to be processed separately.

  4. Select the down payment request you want to process and choose Create down payments.
  5. On the Post Customer Down Payment: Display Overview screen, choose .
  6. Choose until the overview tree appears, confirming the Exit Editing dialog box with Yes.