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payment method supplements

Definition

Means that payments are to be separated in the document according to a preset characteristic.

Use

If you select this option, a payment method supplement can be predefined in the customers and vendors of the company code. This supplement is used to group payments. Payments are separated according to payment method supplements and can be printed separately by these supplements or sorted by them for printing. The payment method supplement is defaulted during document entry and can be overwritten there.

Procedure

Select this option if you want to use payment method supplements.

Examples

Checks to be sent to trading partners are not sent by mail but by means of internal mail and from there are sent via different channels depending on the payee. This procedure can be supported by payment method supplements. That is, a payment method supplement represents an internal mail channel. In the U.S.A. and Canada, such supplements are referred to as "mail stop codes".