You use this process variant for employees who have a personal corporate credit card for which you, as a company, receive and pay the bill.
To be able to use this credit card clearing process variant, the general prerequisites described in Credit Card Clearing must be met, as well as the following special requirements:
Communicate the personnel number to the credit card company and agree on a procedure for ongoing changes.
To use credit card clearing, you need to make the following settings in Customizing for Travel Expenses:
Often, employees might have used the credit card to pay for expenses that are not reimbursed by the company. Using the Receipt Wizard, you can deduct the private expenses from receipts paid for by the company. Also refer to the notes on Posting Personal Expenses using the Receipt Wizard.
Customizing activity:
In Customizing, you must have defined the expense types for individual receipts that are flagged as Paid by Company and that are also assigned to the transaction keys of your credit card company. If you are using service providers, you can enter these here as default values.
Customizing activity:
If you work with multiple credit card companies, you should enter a service provider. While an expense type without a service provider would also be posted to the same clearing account, the system posts a combination of expense type and service provider to the special clearing account of the respective credit card company if it is defined in the account determination.
Customizing activity:
To ensure that receipts with service provider information are posted correctly, you need to use a special wage type for account determination, which you assign to the combination of expense type and service provider.
Customizing activity:
Note that expense reports are posted to Financial Accounting with credit card information. This ensures that the system forwards the data (such as credit card number and transaction number) to Financial Accounting.
Customizing activity:
Here, assign a symbolic account (the clearing account) to the FI wage type and select the With Credit Card Information field.
To clear the transaction data from the posted expense report with the items in the invoice file from the credit card company, SAP recommends the following procedure:
Create a G/L account with open item management as the clearing account for paid receipts for each credit card company or service provider (account is the same as the GR/IR account from Materials Management).
Set up infrastructure for electronically processing incoming invoices in accounts payable accounting (recommended IDoc structure: INVOIC01).
You provide your employees with a corporate credit card to pay for their work-related expenses. They receive a list of all transactions from the credit card company every month to make it easier for them to create their expense reports. Your company regularly receives a total invoice listing transactions per employee or card number.
Every day, you import all credit card transactions of your employees into SAP Travel Management. The employees have to add all paid receipts to their expense reports and identify their private expenses using the Receipt Wizard. These private amounts are then deducted later from the employee's vendor account.
Credit card receipts identified as Paid by Company cannot be deleted from the receipt buffer by employees since Financial Accounting requires every single receipt for reconciliation and invoice verification purposes. In paid credit card receipts, you cannot change the Currency, Amount, and Exchange Rate fields. It must be ensured that the invoice amount for the receipts can be cleared. Paid receipts can be converted into other paid expense types only by means of the Receipt Wizard.
In addition to the credit card file containing the daily transaction data, you regularly receive an invoice file from the credit card company that - as long as the correct infrastructure exists - is then automatically parked in Financial Accounting as an incoming invoice. The offsetting entry in the vendor account for the credit card company is made to the clearing account for paid receipts for each credit card company. This is the account that is also posted to by expense reports.
To support invoice verification, the unique transaction number of the credit card company and the credit card number are used as clearing criteria in addition to the standard criteria (currency and amount). At the end of the month, only the disputed items or items for which no expense report or credit card invoice exists still need to be dealt with manually. For more information, see Displaying Credit Card Receipts.
The following figure provides an overview of this process.
Credit Card Clearing: Process Variant 3