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Object documentationGeneral Settings: BP Tab

 

Use this tab to specify the default settings for the business partners defined in your company; set activity restrictions for your customers; and enable document generation authorizations.

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BP Tab
Customer Activity Restrictions

You can restrict the creation of sales documents for customers and prompt a warning message according to the following parameters:

  • Credit Limit – Checks whether adding the sales document for the customer causes deviation from the credit limit defined for the customer (Payment Terms tab in the Business Partner Master Data window).

    A warning message appears if <the customer's account balance> + <the amount of the current document> exceeds the customer's credit line.

  • Commitment Limit – Checks whether adding the sales document for the customer causes deviation from the commitment limit defined for the customer (Payment Terms tab in the Business Partner Master Data window).

    A warning message appears if <the customer's account balance>+ <the total amount in undeposited checks> + <the amount of the current document> exceeds the customer's commitment limit.

Once you select the required option(s) described above, select the type of documents to which the restrictions apply and for which a warning message is launched:

  • A/R Invoice

  • Delivery

  • Sales Order

  • Pick List

These settings are updated immediately per company, for all users.

Set Commission by

Define how commissions are calculated. A commission can be awarded based on the sales employee, item, or customer specified in the document.

Select one or more of these options depending on how you want SAP Business One to calculate commissions.

This setting influences where you can specify the sales commission percentage, but does not automatically calculate any commission transactions.

You can change this setting at any time.

Consider Deliveries Balance

Checks the customer's account balance and the balance of open deliveries, while applying the selected restrictions for customer activity.

This setting is updated immediately per company, for all users.

Default Payment Term for Customer

Click and select the default payment term to be assigned to new customers.

Your selection is assigned to all future new customer master records; however, it does not override the payment terms already assigned to existing customers. This setting is updated immediately per company, for all users.

Default Payment Term for Vendor

Click and select the default payment term to be assigned to new vendors.

The default payment terms are assigned to every new vendor master record that is created in the future; however, they will not override the payment terms already assigned to existing vendors. When modified, this setting is updated per company, for all users.

Default Payment Method for Customer

Click and choose a default payment method for new customers.

Your selection is marked as default in every future new customer master record; however, it does not override the payment method already marked as default for existing customers.

This setting is updated immediately per company, for all users.

Default Payment Method for Vendor

Click and select a default payment method for new vendors.

Your selection is marked as default in every future new vendor master record; however, it does not override the payment method already marked as default for existing vendors.

This setting is updated immediately per company, for all users.

Submit Credit Vouchers

Defines the deposit method of credit card vouchers:

  • Automatically – determines that the due dates in the transaction of the credit card voucher deposit are the same as the due dates in the incoming payments document.

  • Manually – determines that the due dates in the transaction of the credit card voucher deposit are derived from the deposit document.

When modified, this setting is updated immediately per company, for all users.

Default Dunning Term for Customer

Specify the default dunning term to be assigned to new customers.

When modified, this setting is updated per company, for all users.

Use Shipped Goods Account for Customer

Select this checkbox to enable the postings to the shipped goods account.

When the delivery of inventory and the issue of the invoice occur in different posting periods, you can choose to post the delivery of the inventory to the shipped goods account instead of the COGS account. As such, the delivery of the inventory will be reflected in your Balance Sheet instead of the Profit and Loss statement, and your income and profit will be recorded more accurately.

Once you have selected this checkbox, the Use Shipped Goods Account checkbox on the General sub tab of the Accounting tab of the Business Partner Master Data window will be selected by default for newly added customers.

Note Note

This checkbox is available for perpetual inventory companies only.

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Activate Approval Procedures

Activates the Approval Process function for the creation of sales, purchasing and inventory documents.

When modified, this setting is updated immediately per company, for all users.

Enable Data Ownership

Select this option to enable the data ownership management function.

Manage Data Ownership By

This field is available only if you have selected the Enable Data Ownership checkbox.

You can manage data ownership by following methods:

  • Document Only

    Manage data ownership per document. That is, owners are directly defined for different type of documents. And the ownership authorization is determined by document owner.

  • Business Partner Only

    Manage data ownership per business partner. That is, owners are defined for business partners. The ownership authorization to the documents is determined by the owner of the business partner for which the documents are created.

  • Business Partner and Document

    When the business partner has an owner, the ownership authorization to the document is determined by the owner of the business partner used in that document;

    When the business partner has no owner, the ownership authorization to the document is determined by document owner.

Note Note

  • For purchase requests, data ownership is directly determined by the document owner.

  • For blanket agreement, data ownership is not determined by the owner defined on it, but determined by the owner of the business partner that the blanket agreements are created for.

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Allow BP Without an Owner

This field appears only when you have selected the Business Partner Only option in the Manage Data Ownership By dropdown list.

Select this option to allow business partners without owners exist.

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