Prerequisites for Payment Release (SAP Library

Prerequisites for Payment Release

Before using the payment release function, you must first make certain settings in the SAP Workflow component. These are described in Workflow Settings for Payment Release

If you want to release line items for payment, you must specify this in Customizing for Financial Accounting. To do so, make the following specifications:

Define workflow variants

Create a workflow variant. You must also specify whether the document release function is active and from which amount this is necessary. For the standard workflow models, see Workflow Settings for the Payment Release

Assign the workflow variants to a company code.

You can also assign company codes to workflow variants. The release procedure cannot be used in a company code that has not been assigned to a workflow variant.

Define document types

If a document type has been defined as not relevant for payment release, you cannot use the payment release function with this document type. If you define document type ‘Blank’, the release function is active for all document types with this workflow variant.

Define payment block

You must define the payment block so that it cannot be reversed with change transactions. This makes it impossible to bypass the payment release procedure by manually reversing the payment block.

Define release approval groups

Define release approval paths

Assign release approval procedures to workflow models

The workflow variants, release approval groups, and release approval paths are identical to those for document parking. For more information, see Document Release: Settings in Customizing and the Payment Release activity in the Implementation Guide for Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable.