Payment Details

You can use the payment details function to post the amounts that incur during the life cycle of a master contract (such as charges and interest) to any account you wish. To do so, you store the account in the master contract on the Payment Details tab page.

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The system can not post amounts on the master contract itself.

The payment details account can be a participating account or any other account.

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Use

You can use payment details for the following processes and functions of the master contract:

If you use the Combined Settlement process, you must always specify payment details.

Example
You want to post the credit interest that the system calculates for a joint settlement of all accounts participating in a master contract to an account that does not participate in the master contract.

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If you use the Event Charge function, you have the option of specifying payment details.

Example
You want to post the charges levied for closing a facility to an account that does not participate in the master contract.

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If you use the Effective Cash Pooling process, you have the option of specifying payment details.

Example
During effective cash pooling, you do not want to post the clearing amounts of the participating account to the participating main account, but to an account that does not participate in the master contract.

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Integration

To realize the posting to payment details, Master Contract Management (FS-MCM) uses the Account Management (FS-AM) component.

Prerequisites

Master Contract Product

For the master contract product of the main master contract, in Customizing for Master Contract Management under Product Management Create Master Contract Product , you have defined the attributes under the grouping attributes Payment Details and Settlement Payment Details, in addition to the attributes for the master contract application (such as Facilities).

Account for Posting

You have created all the accounts that you wish to use as payment details in the account-managing system.

Payment Details for Postings of Combined Settlement Results

In Customizing for Master Contract Management (FS-MCM), under Master Contract Applications Combined Settlement Define Payment Details Types for Combined Settlement , you have defined customer-specific payment details types and assigned one or more posting types.

Note
All customer-specific payment details types for settlement postings must be based on the standard payment details category 200000 Complete Settlement and start with the number 2.

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Process Interim Account for Postings of Combined Settlement and Event Charges

You have created a process interim account in the account-managing system.

Note
The process interim account and master contract must be in the same logical system.

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In Customizing for Master Contract Management, under General Settings Define Account Determination for Process Interim Account , you have specified the process interim account for your bank posting area.

Features

Process Flow of Posting

When posting combined settlement and event charges, the system first generates a payment item on the process interim account, and then a payment order with process interim account as sender and payment details account as recipient.

Payment Details for Combined Settlement Postings

You define the payment details on the basis of the payment details type and the account details on the Payment Details tab page in the group box Settlement Payment Details of the master contract.

Post all combined settlement postings to one single account:
SAP supplies the standard payment details type 200000 Complete Settlement that applies for all posting types - irrespective of the number of condition types and assigned posting types.

Example
You want to post all results of the combined settlement to one account.

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Post different types of combined settlement postings to different accounts:
The more payment details types you have created in Customizing, the more you can control the posting of individual combined settlement results to different accounts. The payment details type specifies how you want the system to post the settlement results for each posting type, hence for each condition type.

Example
You have defined a payment details type for debit interest and one for credit interest, so that you can post this each to a different account.

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Payment Details for Postings that Are Not Relevant for Settlement

You define the payment details on the basis of the payment details categories supplied by SAP and the account details on the Payment Details tab page in the group box Payment Details of the master contract.

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You can name payment details categories according to your customer-specific requirements in Customizing for Master Contract Management by choosing Start of the navigation path General Settings Next navigation step Edit Descriptions for Payment Details Categories End of the navigation path .

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Post event charges to another account:
In the group box Payment Details, use the payment details category 700000 Direct Charge (MC).
Post clearing postings from effective cash pooling to another account:
In the group box Payment Details, use the payment details category 600000 Cash Pooling.

Note
You can further differentiate the payment details category 600000 using the payment details type 000001 Standard. The payment details type for postings that are not relevant for settlement are based on the calculation category, clearing category, and condition type.

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More Information

For more information, see Editing Payment Details.