The down payments are part of the agreement with the customer. You stored a down payment date in the billing plan for the sales order. The down payment amount is 10% of the total value of the item.

The down payment date is linked to a milestone in the project. When you create the billing plan, all the dates are initially locked. When you confirmed the Basic Engineering Acceptance activity, the corresponding milestone was triggered, and the down payment date was unlocked. During the billing document run, the system selects this date and creates a down payment request. The system automatically updates the down payment request to FI and on the project.

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, and does not update the payment data on the project.

The down payment requests have been created, and the payment data is updated on the project. To evaluate the data change the session (from now on: Session 2 (Customer payment report)) and call up the payment report.

The system displays the down payment request in the Customer DP Reqs row.