Additional Process Information 

The following additional information is aimed at IDES users with prior knowledge of the SD application.

You can find Customizing for payment card processing in the SAP Reference IMG under:

Sales and Distribution ® Billing ® Payment Cards.

Payment Card Processing in Sales Documents

In order to work with payment cards when processing sales documents, you must assign the relevant sales document types to a payment card type. In this case, payment card type 03 (payment cards).

IDES currently enables payment card processing with the following sales document types:

Sales document type

Description

OR

Standard order

RO

Rush order

ZA

Internet order

Customizing: Payment Cards ® Maintain Payment Card Plan Type.

Checking groups and authorizations

You can use the checking groups to control how the system checks and authorizes data in the individual sales documents. In IDES, the standard checking group 01 is used in all sales documents intended for payment card processing. An authorization horizon is used to decide whether or not an authorization request is triggered. A horizon of 14 days has been set in IDES.

If the current date is 06/18/2000, then the authorization horizon is judged to be 06/18/2000 to 07/02/2000. If the next planned shipping date in the sales document (first material availability date) is 07/01/2000, then the system authorizes the transaction, as this date falls within the authorization horizon. If the next planned shipping date falls outside of the authorization horizon (e.g. 07/05/2000), then only a preliminary authorization is carried out.

Customizing: Payment cards ® Authorization and Settlement ® Maintain Checking Groups.

Requirements for Authorization

In IDES, authorization is only carried out when you save a ‘complete’ (i.e. no missing data) sales document. This is controlled via form routine 1, which is assigned to checking group 01.

Customizing: Payment cards ® Authorization and Settlement ® Maintain Authorization Requirements.

Simulating Authorization

To simulate authorization, IDES uses the standard function module CCARD_AUTH_SIMULATION. A random number generator is normally used by the clearing house to confirm the authorizations. The response is predefined, however, for certain card numbers:

Card type

Card number

VISA

4100000000000001

MC

5100000000000008

Card type

Card number

VISA

4200000000000000

MC

5200000000000007

Card type

Card number

VISA

4300000000000009

MC

5300000000000006

The system response (authorized, rejected, etc.) is random for all other payment card numbers.

Customizing: Payment Cards ® Authorization and Settlement ® Maintain Clearing House ® Set Authorization/Settlement Control Per Account.