In retailing, billing can involve:

• Sales to end customers at the point of sale system; for example, a cash register at a department store or grocery. This can involve cash, personal checks, credit and debit cards, store charge cards, and so on.

• Credit card sales to end customers through catalog mail orders.

• Billing of associated stores by the parent company.

• Direct sales to end users or third-party distributors using SAP Retail

• Issuance of credit or debit memos for vendors, customers, or credit card companies. An example would be the issuing of a credit to a customer’s credit card for merchandise returned.

The other types of transactions involve sales data directly entered into SAP Retail and processed by the Billing function. Among the functions supported by Retail billing are:

• Issuing of invoices on the basis of goods and services

• Issuing of credit and debit memos based on corresponding requests

• Issuing of pro forma invoices

• Cancellation of billing transactions

• Issuing of rebates

• Transfer of posting data to Financial Accounting (FI)

These functions are carried out using various billing documents.

Like all parts of Retail order processing, billing is integrated into the organizational structure. Thus, the billing transactions can be assigned to a specific sales organization, a distribution channel, and a division. Since billing has an interface to Financial Accounting, the organizational structure of the accounting department (i.e., the company codes as well as the sales organizations assigned to the company code) is important.