Direct Debit Orders

An object in Account Management (FS-AM) that represents a written order by a paying party (that can be revoked at any time), to honor all debit memos presented by a certain payee, debiting the account of the paying party. In Account Management you can manage as many debit orders as required for each account.

The direct debit order is a feature of the account. You can only deactivate this feature if no direct debit orders exist for an account or if any existing direct debit orders for an account have been deleted beforehand. For more information about editing account contract features, see

Editing Features in SAP Library.

In addition, the direct debit order has a feature attribute in the product. For more information about product attributes and their characteristics, see Product in SAP Library.

The following functions are available in Account Management for direct debit orders:

Create, display, change, and delete direct debit orders
For more information, see Editing Direct Debit Orders.
Posting debit memos that are presented for a direct debit order.
For more information, see Payment Order and

Creating Payment Orders.

If required, you can create direct debit orders with a fixed maximum amount limit.

As well as the collection process based on a direct debit order, there is a further collection process that is called collection authorization.

Structure

The direct debit order comprises the following information:

Direct debit order number
This is assigned automatically as soon as you create a direct debit order.
Name of payment recipient
You can specify additional name variants by using the alias function. For more information, see Editing Direct Debit Orders under Create Direct Debit Order.
Maximum amount limit
You can specify this in addition to prevent debit memos that exceed the maximum limit from being honored.
Currency
This is assigned automatically. This corresponds to the account currency of the paying party.

Methods

In Account Management (FS-AM), you can use one of the following channels for processing objects:

Dialog
Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI)
Direct Input (DI)

The following shows which methods (and via which channel) you can call up for the direct debit order:

Method	Channel
	Dialog	BAPI	DI
Create Account	x	x	x
Change Account	x	x	x
Display Account	x	x

Dialog

You can call the following transactions in dialog mode:

Transaction Code	Short Description
BCA_CN_ACCT_01	Creating accounts
BCA_CN_ACCT_02	Changing accounts
BCA_CN_ACCT_03	Displaying accounts

Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI)

You can call the following methods using BAPI Explorer:

Method*	Short Description
CMAccountAM.DebitOrderChange	Processing direct debit orders
CMAccountAM. DebitOrderGetDetail	Reading direct debit orders

Direct Input

Direct input has been implemented in the account for the Contract Element: Direct Debit Order. For more information, see Account.

Note Note

For more information about the Contract Element: Direct Debit Order, choose the Technical Documentation button when you are editing the account.

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Integration

Customizing

You make the settings for the direct debit order in Customizing for Start of the navigation path Account Management (FS-AM) Next navigation step Item Management Basic Functions Basic Posting Settings Set +/- Sign for Postings and Name Check End of the navigation path .

You need to make all the required Customizing settings for the payment item and payment order to be able to post debit memos in the direct debit order. For more information, see Payment Items and

Payment Orders.

Charges

When you create a direct debit order, the system posts direct charges if the underlying account is active and you have entered the corresponding settings for the financial conditions. This does not apply to the data transfer via direct input.

Note Note

The Valid On date must be the same as the posting date so that the charge item can be posted.

For more information about the time dependency in the contract, choose Start of the navigation path Technical Documentation Next navigation step Other Documentation End of the navigation path in the account.

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Checks Made by the System

Check for Formal and Material Errors When You Post Payment Items

The system runs these checks when you post debit memos as part of the direct debit order, providing you have made the required settings for the payment item in Customizing for Account Management.

Check To See If Debit Memos Need To Be Returned

The system checks whether it is possible to post to a debit memo that has been presented. If this is not possible, you can return it. Possible return reasons:

There is no valid direct debit order.
The system checks each debit memo that was presented for cashing during the direct debit procedure (corresponding flag on debit memo). It checks to see if there is a direct debit order from the paying party for the named payee on the debit memo.
There are insufficient funds in the account to be debited.
The name of the payment recipient does not match the name entered in the direct debit order.
The name check did not find a match.
The debit cannot be assigned because the details on the paying party are not unique.
The debit cannot be assigned because the account of the paying party does not or no longer exists.
The transaction type on which the direct debit order is based is not permitted for the account, or locked.
For more information, see the documentation for the contract elements BCPT (transaction type groups/media) and BCLP (posting locks) by choosing the Technical Documentation button in the contract.
The Direct Debit Order feature is missing from the account.
The maximum amount limit defined in the direct debit order has been exceeded.

Note

In the case of a direct debit order, it is not possible to return a debit memo if the paying party raises an objection. For more information about returning payment items, see Returning Payment Items or Posting Control Rules (for the Posting Control Office component).

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