Payment Request 

Use

Via this function, you call up the Payment program for payment requests (=enhanced payment program).

Prerequisites

Before you can use the payment program for payment requests, you must first make certain settings in Customizing for Treasury in addition to settings in the configuration of the payment program.

  1. Make the following settings in Customizing for Treasury so that payment requests can be generated in the Money Market, Foreign Exchange, Derivatives and Securities areas.

a) In Customizing for Basic Functions, choose Define number ranges for payment requests to enter a number range for key number assignment of payment requests.

b) In Customizing for Cash Management, set up the planning levels for payment requests by choosing Define Levels in Payment Requests.

c) In the chart of accounts, you must establish the ‘Clearing account for payment requests’ and then assign it to the company code in Basic Functions Customizing under Define clearing account for payment request.

d) To generate Payment requests in the Securities area, choose Define company code additional data in Customizing for Basic Functions and activate the standing instructions in the area headed Securities settings.

You maintain the default values for payment requests in the standing instructions for the business partners. To do this, set the payment request flag and enter at least one payment method in the field headed List of payment methods.

To generate a payment request for a transaction, choose Goto ® Payment request when you enter a transaction. A dialog box appears in which you maintain the payment details. The fields contain data from the standing instructions. To generate a payment request, the payment request flag must be set.

Exactly one payment request is generated per transaction by the net payment amount of the transaction. If a transaction contains several flows, they are grouped together to form one payment request.

In the relevant posting record, the bank clearing account is exchanged for the clearing account for payment requests. The payment program for payment requests clears this posting by posting between the payment request clearing account and the initial bank clearing account.

Using payment requests in the Securities area is subject to the following restrictions:

· You can only generate payment requests for transactions.

· The system only supports payment requests for G/L account postings. It does not support customer payment requests.

· Individual payments can always be made for the payment requests generated, irrespective of the settings made in the standing instructions for grouping payment requests.

e) Before you can generate payment requests from transactions in the Money Market, Foreign Exchange and Derivatives areas, you have to flag the payment request indicator for the three areas in Customizing by choosing Define flow types. This determines whether or not the individual flow types are allowed to generate payment requests. You can choose from the following:

Sign

Create payment request?

 

None

-

For outgoing payments

+

For incoming payments

X

For outgoing and incoming payments

If you want to generate payment requests for transactions with a business partner, you can define these in the standing instructions for payment details. (These entries are only effective if the settings made for payment requests allow them to be generated at flow level, as described above). To do this, flag the payment request indicator in the standing instructions of the payment details and enter at least one payment method in the field headed List of payment methods. These settings are the default values for the payment details for each transaction with the business partner.

You make the final decision as to whether to generate a payment request, however, when you actually enter the transaction. If you do not want to generate a payment request, you can overwrite the default values from the standing instructions in the payment details for the transaction.
  1. You also make settings in the configuration of the payment program for payment requests.

There you define, for example, your house banks and your bank accounts as well as the required payment methods and payment forms.

To do this, see the R/3 library: AC ® TR - Treasury ® Treasury Management (TR-TM) ® Payment Program for Payment Requests ® Customizing of the Payment Program.

Features

Activities

To start a payment run, proceed as follows:

  1. Enter a date and payment run ID.

    2. All information relating to the payment run is stored under these values.

  2. By selecting Edit ® Parameter ® Maintain, you reach the Automatic Payment Transactions screen. . Enter the values for the parameters.
  3. The Dynamic selections function gives you the option of using other fields for selecting payment requests.
  4. You can create an additional log via Additional log.
  5. You can include report programs for printing payment media and creating lists in the payment run by choosing Edit ® Print programs. You enter the programs and variants on the Automatic Payment Transactions: Print Programs screen.
  6. Save the parameters for the payment run.
  7. You can now carry out a proposal run or a payment run. Choose Edit ® Proposal ® Schedule or Edit ® Payment ® Schedule.
  8. Specify a starting time (or immediate start) and, if required, a computer.
  9. If you have firstly created a proposal, you can display the log, payment and exception list. The payment proposal can also be edited or deleted. If you are satisfied with the payment proposal, execute the update run via Edit ® Payment ® Schedule.
  10. At the end of the payment run the system generates the posting documents, payment and exceptions list and the payment media. This concludes the payment run.

More detailed information is available in the documentation about the Payment Program for Payment Requests This can be found in the R/3 library under AC ® TR - Treasury ® Treasury Management (TR-TM) ® Payment Program for Payment Requests.