Billing the Down Payment 

Use

In the sales order, the down payment date in the billing plan is unlocked when activity 0100 Internal sales documents is confirmed. During the billing document run, the system selects this date and creates a down payment request.

Prerequisites

The down payment date must be unlocked in the sales order.

The billing element (the WBS element to which the revenues are posted) must be released. Otherwise, the system creates the down payment request without a corresponding accounting document. The payment data is not updated to the project.

Procedure

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
  2. Menu Path

    Logistics ® Sales ® Billing ® Billing Document ® Create

    Transaction Code

    VF01

  3. Enter the following data:
  4. Field

    Data

    Document

    <Your sales order number>

    You can search for the order number by entering WBS element T-10### under Search criteria and then choosing Search.

    Normally a billing document for many sales documents is executed using the Process billing due list mass transaction

  5. Choose .
  6. The system selects only one item as a down payment request.

  7. Choose .

Result

The down payment request has been created, and the data on the project has been updated. To evaluate the data, switch to session two (Payment report). To evaluate the current data, you need to exit the report and rerun it.

The system displays the down payment request in the Customer down payt. req. row.