When an invoice is blocked, Financial Accounting cannot pay the invoice. The invoice must first be released in a separate step before it can be processed.

An invoice can be blocked for payment due to one of the following reasons:

When an invoice is blocked, the period in which the vendor grants a cash discount may end before the invoice is released. In this case, blocking the invoice would be a disadvantage, since the payment program cannot deduct the cash discount. To avoid this, you can update the baseline date for payment when you release the invoice, so that the cash discount periods can be shifted forwards.