EDRs for payment, receivable, and credit memo amounts

You can use the EDR category AMOUNT for any amounts from payments, receivables, or credit memos that you want to process during billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable. You can also specify information on the payment method together with the amount in the EDR when handling amounts from payments.

For example, this means you can process an amount from a credit card payment using an EDR with the category AMOUNT. Billing and invoicing of this amount gives rise to a receivable, which can be cleared using the specified credit card with the corresponding credit card institute.

For example, this allows you to implement a top-up scenario, whereby your customer can top up their account with a certain amount by specifying their credit card data.

Billing account facts

You can use the operand categories AMOUNT, AMOUNTT, and AMOUNTP to define amounts for billing a billing account independently of EDRs.

For example, you can define an amount that is to be taken into account periodically during billing (AMOUNTP). You can implement a basic fee scenario, whereby you invoice the customer for a set amount with each billing run.

Billing procedure

You can execute billing in Contract Accounts Receivable with reference to a billing procedure. The billing procedure is derived from a billing cycle that is assigned to the billing account and is part of the main billing procedure.

You can define different billing frequencies for each billing procedure in a main billing procedure. For example, you can define an additional billing procedure with monthly billing for a main billing procedure with annual billing. The system allows you to generate down payment requests for a billing account with monthly billing and to perform annual billing of the actual receivables for the same billing account.

Crediting during invoicing

The new invoicing function OFFSET_REQ allows you to flag amounts from down payments for a contract account during invoicing for crediting at a later stage. The invoicing function OFFSET allows you to credit amounts from receivables for a contract account during invoicing against flagged amounts.

Both the amounts you flag for crediting and those you offset against them can refer to specific items in the billing documents to be invoiced. This means you can proccess both normal receivable items and items that are to be flagged for crediting or that are to be credited in a billing document for invoicing.

You can use different crediting reference keys to control crediting for a contract account in detail. For example, you can flag the amounts generated in billing for a down payment request for a billing account for crediting. You can then offset the actual receivables for the billing account against these amounts at a later stage.

If you use several billing accounts for a contract account, crediting takes place for each billing account.

Billing and invoicing of event-based deferred revenue

You can use the new invoicing function DEF_REV_BY_E to post deferred revenue based on events. You can post invoiced services for which revenue recognition is not to take place until a certain event occurs to a separate revenue account. These services are posted back to the actual revenue account when revenue is recognized.

You can have the system trigger the event that triggers posting back when billing takes place for a corresponding EDR.

Billing and invoicing of amounts in different original currencies

You can process EDRs with different amount currencies in one billing run and then convert them to an invoicing currency and post them in invoicing.

Billing and invoicing of gross amounts

You can receive amounts for billing as EDRs as gross amounts. The system calculates the related tax amount during invoicing of the gross amounts, and posts it to a corresponding tax account.

Extraction of EDRs

The business function contains an extraction process that allows you to extract EDRs to SAP NetWeaver BI.

Contract account-specific invoicing

Contract account-specific invoicing allows you to process contract accounts periodically in invoicing (invoicing processes) independently of source documents (such as billing documents).

For example, this means you can implement periodic interest calculation for open items in a contract account.