To give an employee an advance payment from the master data you carry out an unqualified advance payment. You can make advance payments without performing a payroll run. You simply start a transfer run, which reads the wage types from the following infotypes.

• External Bank Transfers infotype (0011)
• Recurring Payments and Deductions infotype (0014)
• Additional Payments infotype (0015)

During the transfer run a file is created, which contains the amounts assigned to these wage types. The file then creates transfer forms as transfer mediums for the bank or data mediums for data medium exchange. An unqualified advance payment is also known as an advance payment based on master data.

The transfer advance payment is an estimation of net pay, without deductions. At a later point, usually at the end of the payroll period, a normal payroll run takes place to calculate the net amounts for the advance payment. The wage types, which were transferred as part of the advance payment, must be included in the ordinary payroll run, but should be considered as already paid. To ensure this, the wage types permitted for above-mentioned wage types must be coded accordingly.