Customizing: Payment Card Processing

The following describes the Customizing settings for payment card processing in Accounting.

The Customizing settings for payment card processing are in the Payment Cards role menu, under Environment Payment Cards Settings .

Define credit voucher number range:

In this step you select an existing number range or create a new one in the system.

You access the same number range object for the credit voucher number range, as is used for funds reservations, funds commitments and earmarked funds. Therefore, a number of existing number ranges may be proposed to you.

Activities

You are in the Payment card role menu and select, Settings Number Range Credit Voucher. ( )
Choose ( ) Interval .
Mark one of the recommended number ranges or create a new range. Make a note of the interval number for the next step (define payment card type and function module).
Click on ( ) .

Define payment card type, user-defined function module and residence times:

In this step, you make the following settings:

You define the payment card type used, its alphanumeric abbreviation and assignments to credit voucher number ranges.
You can link user-defined function module to each card type.

Note Note

If you do not make any links to your own function modules, the standard function modules of the delivery system remain automatically set.

End of the note.

The following function modules are included in the delivery system:

Importing the inbound file

Converting the inbound file into standard data

Checking the inbound files

Checking for double data

Vendor search

Credit voucher search

You determine residence times for the archiving of payment card master records and payment card files.

You use the File control indicator to determine whether the tax amounts for the inbound files of a card company are displayed separately or if they should be calculated from the transaction amounts.

Activities

You are in the Payment card role menu and select Settings Card types Maintain. ( )
Choose New entries .
Enter the required data for the respective payment card institutes.
Click on ( ) .

Define field control:

In this step, you can include field control for the payment master record and the credit voucher’s additional fields. The standard account assignment block with a predefined field selection is available in the delivery system.

If you want to include additional fields, you have to develop your own function modules in the same way as the delivered standard modules and include these for the payment card master record and the credit voucher.

Activities

You are in the Payment card role menu and select Settings Field control Maintain. ( )
Enter the names of your user-defined function modules for the payment card master record and the credit voucher.
Click on ( ) .

Define selection code:

In this step, you can maintain all 20-character selection codes for an inbound file and their respective meanings in an overview table.

The selection code is delivered as additional information in the inbound file and is also saved in the log file. This code can for example classify a payment card according to a regional issuing area. By specifying the selection code, a selection of data records to be processed can be defined in the log file.

Activities

You are in the Payment card role menu and select Settings Selection code Maintain. ( )
Enter the selection code and the meaning.
Click on ( ) .