Immediate Billing in Convergent Invoicing

Before you can use the described function in this release information, you must activate one of the following business functions in your system.

FICAX_INV_2K (Convergent Invoicing, 02K)
ISU_INV_2K (Convergent Invoicing EhP7, SP12)
TEL_INV_2K (Convergent Invoicing EhP7, SP12)

Immediate Billing

You have the option of executing billing during the uploading of the billable items.

Master Data Exchange

In the context of immediate billing, you have the option to define an alternative business partner for billing. In this way, you can for example group several related business partners together into one business partner.

Effects on Customizing

If you want to use immediate billing, activate immediate billing for the combination of billable items class and subprocess. To do so, in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, choose Convergent Invoicing Basic Functions Billable Items Assign Subprocesses to Classes and select Immediate Billing.
If you want to implement the alternative business partner, use the interface component Alternative Master Data for Billing(MD_BILL) in the configuration of your class of billable items. To do so, in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, choose Convergent Invoicing Basic Functions Billable Items Maintain Billable Item Classes .