Summary Billing Document for Multiple Payees
During billing of a billing due list item with multiple payees, the system creates a summary billing document
, which calculates the total royalties to be split among the payment recipients in the license acquisition contract (called payees
).
This summary billing document includes links to the individual payee documents. These links appear in the Payees
assignment block,
You can only cancel a summary billing document if all payee billing documents have also been canceled.
Integration
The system uses the summary billing document as a basis for creating the payee billing documents when the contract splits the royalties among multiple payees. This document is not transferred to Financial Accounting
(FI) or to Business Intelligence
(BI).
The summary and payee billing documents can have different billing types. For summary billing documents assigned the billing type OR01, the system assigns billing type OR06 to the payee billing documents created. To create a different combination of summary and payee billing types, make the
settings in Customizing for Customer Relationship Management
under 
Industry-Specific Solutions
Media
Intellectual Property Management
Billing and Settlement
Outgoing Royalties
Define Billing Type for Payee Billing Documents
.