Releasing Payment Items 

Use

Payment items may require an additional authorization check before posting, deletion, reversal, or return is possible. You can assign these amount-dependent authorizations by using the authorization administration. In addition to the amount-dependent authorization, you can specify whether payment items need to be released under the principle of dual control.

If you have entered these settings in the Implementation Guide (IMG), you can use the Release Payment Item  function to release the relevant payment items.

Prerequisites

You have defined an amount over which the system is to run an authorization check and apply the principle of dual control in Customizing for Bank Customer Accounts (BCA) by choosing Authorization Management ® Amount-Dependent Authorization ® Maintain Amount Limit/Principle of Dual Control for Payment Item.

You need to have the necessary authorization to release items.

Procedure

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       1.      Choose Account Management ® Payment Item ® Release.

       2.      Enter the required data.

You can restrict the payment items that are selected for release by choosing different criteria.

       3.      Choose Execute.

The system displays a list of the payment items to be released according to your selection.

       4.      Double-click on a payment item.

The system displays the payment item.

If checks were skipped when you created the payment item because you forced the posting, the system displays these checks on the Administration tab page.

       5.      Check the available data for the payment item to be released.

¡        To release the payment item, select Release.

If the system recognizes errors during the check on the payment item to be released, it displays corresponding messages in a dialog box.

¡        To reject the release of the payment item, choose Reject.

The payment item receives the status that it had before the action that led to the release. Payment items that flowed into the release process from the posting receive the In Postprocessing status.

The list of payment items to be released is displayed again.

       6.      Repeat the previous steps for all payment items that you want to release.

Result

The payment items are released or reset to the old status.