Credit Memo Date in the Billing Plan
Use
After cancellation of a contract, depending upon your agreement with the customer, settlement periods that have already been billed can be recredited automatically.
The most important criterion is that if the end date or ‘to- date’ is changed, it comes before the last billed data. It is unimportant whether the end date changed because of a rule (e.g. contract end date) or whether it was entered manually.
Correction dates are created automatically if the field Corr is activated in the document billing plan data. Activation of this field can be carried out manually or automatically via Customizing.
Deactivating the field removes the correction dates again.
Example
Example:
The contract had a duration of 4 months and all dates were billed. After further negotiations with the customer, the contract was canceled on April 15 1998 and it was agreed that the amount for the remaining period would be credited to the customer.
As soon as the end date is changed, a corresponding correction date is set.
Note
The value of a correction date cannot be changed. If you only want to reimburse a certain amount to the customer, then you can only do this by fixing the end date.
Correction dates which have already been billed can no longer be changed.
The billing dates to which the correction dates refer cannot be canceled.
Prerequisites
You need to make the following settings in Customizing for billing plans:
Billing plan type for periodic billing:
In the ‘Aut.cor.date’ field, you activate the automatic creation of credit memo dates in the billing plan.
Date category maintenance:
In the billing type field, you maintain the proposal billing type for the credit memo date in the billing plan.
In the billing block field you maintain a block indicator for credit memo in the billing plan.
All fields represent a proposal for the billing plan and can be overwritten in the billing plan.
Note
You can configure authorizations for changing the billing block in the document (activating and deactivating) using authorization object V_VBAK_AAT.