• Payment Information (BT)
• Work Center/Basic Pay (WPBP)

Every entry in the Payment Information table (BT) in an employee's payroll results corresponds to a payment that was created in a payroll period for this employee. However, the employee is not necessarily the payment recipient of all payments. A difference must be made, for entries in the Payment Information table (BT), between payments to the employee and employee-specific payments to third parties.

The origin and treatment of employee-specific payments to third parties is country-specific. If, for example, salary elements for an employee are garnished or are retained for capital formation, an entry is created in the Payment Information table (BT) in the employee's payroll results, for payment of the retained amount to a third party (e.g. the creditor or the capital formation institute). The origin of this entry depends on the county version used, and the settings in Customizing. However, employee-specific payments to third parties do not necessarily create an entry in the Payment Information table (BT) for the employee. The reason for this is that in certain country versions these payments are made independent of the Wage and Salary Payments component.

• The Payment Method field is always filled.
• The Bank Number and Bank Account fields are filled, if the payment method requires bank details.
• The Recipient, Postal Code and Location fields are filled, if you have manually overwritten the corresonding fields in the Bank Details infotype (0009). If you have not manually overwritten these fields in the Bank Details infotype (0009), the values from the Personal Data (0002) and Addresses (0006) infotypes are displayed there. In this case, the Recipient, Postal Code and Location fields are not filled in the Payment Information table (BT).

• The entry in the Payment Information table (BT) for an employee-specific payment to a third party either contains detailed information from the infotype that forms the basis of the payment (Payment Method, Bank Details, Name and Addresses), or a recipient key in the Recipient field. This recipient key refers to Customizing for Personnel Management, where you must store the detailed information mentioned.
• The Purpose field in the Payment Information table (BT) is filled, if a purpose was entered in the infotype that forms the basis of the payment.

Certain organizational elements from the Organizational Assignment infotype (0001) are stored in the Work Center/Basic Pay table (WPBP) during payroll. These organizational elements are used in the wage and salary payments process (dependent on Customizing) to determine the house bank and the house bank account.

Furthermore, the system uses the Work Center/Basic Pay table (WPBP) to determine the paying company code. Specification of the paying company code is optional in Customizing. If you have not specified a paying company code in Customizing, the system uses the company code that is stored in the Work Center/Basic Pay table (WPBP) in the employee's payroll results. If the Work Center/Basic Pay (WPBP) table for the employee contains several partial periods as the result of a WPBP Split, in the payroll period to be processed, the system uses the company code in the last partial period, in which the employee was active, to determine the paying company code.