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 Configuring Payments

 

In order to configure payment specifications, you must execute a number of Customizing activities. You can use the SAP Biller Direct for FI-CA function to pay bills (invoices), which includes making one time payments and future-dated payment from the SAP ERP system. This enables you to settle open receivables such as invoices detailing their energy consumption by credit card or bank transfer in part, or in full.

Activities

Payment Specification and One Time Payment

You use the GEN_EBPP_PUT_DATA API to make payments from the SAP Biller Direct for FI-CA function. This API supports two modes of payment: standard mode and balance mode.

For standard mode, this API creates a payment specification for a list of generic open invoices that can be used across various industries; for balance mode, the same API creates a payment specification for the standing balance in customer contract accounts. The payment amount entered is distributed across open bills during the clearing control; invoices are then processed further in the same way as in the standard mode. To be able to use all of the functions of SAP Biller Direct, you have to make the following Customizing settings for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA).

For this API to work, you must maintain the following Customizing:

  • Basic Settings

    These settings from FI-CA are essential for you to be able to display bills on the front end and to process payments initiated in SAP FI-CA.

    For more information, see http://help.sap.com/erpInformation published on SAP site under Basic Settings for Configuration of SAP Biller Direct for FI-CA.

  • Processing Payments and Credits

    In order to allow making and clearing of partial payments, overpayments and credits, you have to make additional system settings specified under Processing Payments and Credits.

    For more information, see http://help.sap.com/erpInformation published on SAP site under Start of the navigation path Basic Settings Next navigation step Processing Payments and Credits End of the navigation path for Configuration of SAP Biller Direct for FI-CA.

  • Payments by Payment Card

    In order to allow payment using payment cards, you have to make additional system settings specified under Payments by Payment Card.

    For more information, see http://help.sap.com/erpInformation published on SAP site for Payments by Payment Card under Configuration of SAP Biller Direct for FI-CA.

  • You can customize the payment card authorization check using the Customizing activity Settings for Customer Portal in the Internet under Start of the navigation path SAP Utilities Next navigation step Customer Service Next navigation step SAP Multichannel Foundation for Utilities Next navigation step Biller Direct End of the navigation path; you have to provide your function module for the field Authorization, which meets your requirements. Otherwise no authorization checks are applied by default. SAP provides a simulation function CCARD_AUTH_SIMULATION as an example.

  • Automatic notification after payment is created for customer using either e-mail or SMS is offered by the SAP Biller Direct in FI-CA function. BAdI Confirmation E-Mail for Payment of Open Bills (ES_FIN_EBPP_MAIL_PUT_DATA) is provided to you for configuring the standard, automatic e-mail that the system sends to the customer to confirm that the payments they have made for open bills have been entered in the system.

  • At the end of each successful creation of a payment, a customer contact for the current business partner is created within the implementation. Meanwhile, SAP Biller Direct for FI-CA also provides a BAdI Create Customer Contacts (ES_FIN_EBPP_CONTACT), which is used in the Utilities Industry (IS-U) component for creating contacts for E-Service processes and can be found under Start of the navigation path SAP Utilities Next navigation step Customer Service Next navigation step Utility Customer E-Services (UCES) Next navigation step E-Mail Configuration End of the navigation path, but we recommend you do not use the SAP Biller Direct for FI-CA BAdI.

  • For balance mode, the FI-CA functions within the FI-CA EVENT 0110 can be enhanced according to specific customer requirement. The FI-CA Event 0110 assigns an available amount to open invoices and then the selected invoices are cleared or partially cleared on the basis of this assignment.

    For more information, see the documentation for the sample function module FKK_SAMPLE_0110.

Future-Dated Payment

Future-dated payment refers to a payment created for a future date for an invoice that is also due in the future. In order to make this feature work through SAP Biller Direct FI-CA, the GEN_EBPP_PUT_DATA API payment specification must be used. The FI-CA functions within the FI-CA EVENT 1249 can be enhanced according to specific customer requirement. The FI-CA EVENT 1249 checks whether the invoices specified for the payment can be included together in a payment specification even if the due dates of the invoices are different.

For more information, see the documentation for the sample function module FKK_SAMPLE_1249.

More Information

For more information describing the SAP Biller Direct in FI-CA function in theConfiguration of SAP Biller Direct for FI-CA documentation can be found on the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/erpInformation published on SAP site under SAP Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA).

For more information describing payments in SAP FI-CA, see the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/erpInformation published on SAP site under Start of the navigation path Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable Next navigation step Payments End of the navigation path.