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Procedure documentation Maintaining Holds Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

Holds enable you to adapt the available amount for an account by increasing or decreasing it.

You decrease the available amount if certain amounts are to be held as securities or as part of another business transaction on the customer account. This prevents money from being withdrawn from the remaining available amount on the account.

You increase the available amount if you want to provide the customer with an extra limit for a particular period of time.

Prerequisites

You have activated the Holds feature for the product under Conditions and Limits.

You can define an amount-based authorization check in Customizing for the product in bank area currency under Authorization Management -> Amount-Dependent Authorization -> Maintain Amount Limit for Hold.

Procedure

The holds are displayed on the Holds tab page in the Holds group box. You can create, change, and delete holds. The changes made are saved only when you save the account.

The following parameters define a hold:

·        Reservation category

01 for long term holds that reduce the available amount by the reserved amount (hold).

02 for suspending the long term hold that reduces the available amount by the negative reserved amount.

·        Reserved amount (hold)

Amount in account currency by which the available amount is to be reduced. You need to enter the amount with a negative plus minus sign to suspend the long term hold.

·        Valid from and to

Period of time during which the hold is valid, whereby more than one hold can be valid at one time.

In addition, you can specify a reference number for internal use.

Choose Account Balance to display an overview of the outstanding holds.

Result

The active holds affect the payment transaction and balancing. If you process a payment item, the active holds are summarized and subtracted from the available amount. If the payment item exceeds the available amount, the system issues an error message.

During balancing, the system checks whether there are any open active holds,  issues an error message if there are, and places account balancing in postprocessing.

Choose Information System -> List of Holds to generate a list of holds for selected accounts. The list also displays the deleted holds with their deletion date.

 

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