When you run an automatic comparison, the system tries to find a matching payment advice for each posting you select. It then archives the payment advices it finds and prints an archiving log.

The following criteria must match the posted document so that the system can find the appropriate payment advice and archive it automatically.

• Company code
• Bank account
• Currency
• Business area
• Value date of the posting, and planning date of the payment advice

The amount does not necessarily have to match. You can specify a maximum difference between the posted amount and the planned amount. The system will accept and automatically archive any payment advices that do not exceed the amount you specify, providing the above criteria have been met.

After the program has run and the payment advices have been archived, the system issues a list that you can use to compare manually the payment advices and postings it could not match.