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Procedure documentation Posting a Bill of Exchange from a Bill Payment Request  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

After you receive the accepted bill of exchange from your customer, you post the bill of exchange. To do this, you select the corresponding bill of exchange payment request. Note that the customer may have made changes to the bill of exchange.

You can process several bill of exchange payment requests in one step. This may be necessary, for example, if your customer has included several bill of exchange payment requests in one bill of exchange.

Post a bill of exchange from the bill of exchange payment request as follows:

  1. Choose Document entry ® Bill of exchange ® Bill/ex by request

    2. The system displays a screen for entering the document header and selecting the bill of exchange payment request.

  2. Enter the document header, the special G/L code for a bill of exchange, and the document number of one or more bill of exchange payment requests. Choose ENTER .

    3. On the screen that follows, the system uses the data from the bill of exchange payment request as default values.

  3. If necessary, change the default values. Your customer may have changed some entries on the bill of exchange payment request.

    4. If you have selected several payment requests, the system calculates the total amount using the corresponding invoices.

  4. Select ENTER .

The corresponding invoice line items are displayed. If there is a zero balance, you can post the document by choosing Document ® Post.

The system posts the bill of exchange payment and deletes the bill of exchange requests.

You post all other transactions, such as depositing a bill of exchange and reversing the potential bill liability in the same way as for bills of exchange receivable.