To use an account as a participant account in a facility, you have activated the Facility Relevance attribute.

For more information, see Customizing for Account Management under  Product Management Product Definition Create Account Product .

To be able to use the Facilities function for postings on a participant account, you have activated the Facilities check object in the Relevant Checks group box under  Item Management Basic Functions Transaction Types and Transaction Type Groups Maintain and Assign Transaction Types for Payment Items .

Each time an amount is posted on a participant account, the system adjusts the utilization balance of the participant account by the posting amount.

If the system is also to run facility checks, you have set the Check Facilities indicator in the Control group box.

To use the Facilities function for prenotes subject to posting control on a participant account, you have activated the Facilities check object in the Checks group box under  Item Management Prenote Define Prenote Types .

Each time a prenote is created on a participant account, the system adjusts the utilization balance of the participant account by the prenote amount.

If the system is also to run facility checks, you have set the Relevance indicator in the Facilities-Relevant group box.

You can specify how payment items posted on participant accounts with at least one error in the check run by the Facilities check object are processed. To do this, you have made the relevant settings under  Item Management Posting Control Rules .

You have assigned the required bank posting areas with time zones under  Basic Settings Organization Define Bank Posting Area .

The system includes these time zones in the calculation of the SubFinPayt date and of the Valid To date of prenotes for the Facilities function.

To be able to assign a facility with participant accounts in different currencies, you have specified the exchange rates that the system is to use for the currency translation.

For more information, see Customizing for Master Contract Management under  General Settings Assign Exchange Rate Types for Currency Translation

You have specified the required data for the calculation of the utilization balance for the master contracts and participant accounts, and you have selected the time zone for time-dependent facility data.

For more information, see  Master Contract Applications Facilities Edit General Settings .

You have specified the periods for processing reservations by choosing  Master Contract Applications Facilities Define Residence Times .

To be able to use the amounts of a global customer limit, you have assigned a customer limit category with the value of the global limit category under  Master Contract Applications Facilities Assign Global Customer Limit Categories to Customer Limit Categories

You have defined the description of the global limit category under  Master Contract Applications Facilities Enter Descriptions for Global Limit Categories .

You have defined the description of the technical utilization category under  Master Contract Applications Facilities Enter Descriptions for Technical Utilization Categories .

To assign the lock types of the account-managing system with the relevant applications and special processes in Master Contract Management, you need to specify these under  Master Contract General Settings Assign Process Usage Locks to Master Contract Applications .