November 9, 2016
by Sachin Patil

The payment program is used to process incoming and outgoing payments.

Customizing

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>Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
>Business Transactions
>Payments
>Incoming/Outgoing Payment Creation

Transaction	Description
FQP1	Payment method per contry
FQP4	Payment method per company code
FQP3	Payment medium
FQP5	Note to payee
FQP2	Item Indicator in payments

Posting area

Area	Description
1061	Payment Program Bank Accounts

Mass activities

TFK090A Mass Activity Types

AKTYP	EVE_ITVL	EVE_PARA	TCODE
PAYP	1740	1741	FPY1

FI-CA Events

Event	Description
0601	Payment: Deactivate Items after Grouping
0605	Payment: Determine Payment Method from Master Data
0606	Payment Specification: Preselect Items
0607	Payment Specification: Checks on Creation/Change
0608	Payment Specification: After Database Change
0609	Payment Specification: Include Screen for Customer Fields
0610	Payment: Block Items/Partial Payments
0611	Payments: Check Debit Memo Notification
0613	Payments: Initiate Partial Payments for Direct Debit Limit
0615	Payment: Choose Items to be Cleared
0616	Payment Specification: Define Additional Selection
0617	Payment: Check Payment Specificataion
0620	Payment: Transfer Line Items for Clearing
0625	Payment: Split Payments per Due Date
0630	Payment: Data on Payment (PAYH)
0632	Payment: Payment of a Repayment Request (DPAYH)
0640	Payment: Data on Items Paid (PAYP)
0650	Payment: Select House Bank and Account
0651	Payment: Select House Bank for Repayments
0654	Payments: Payment Method Selection
0655	Payments: Reject Payment
0660	Payment: Read Contract Data
0661	Payment: Set Check Date for Existence of Locks
0662	Payments: Determine Direct Debit Limit at Contract Level
0663	Payment: Set Paying Contract Account
0664	Payments: Execution Date for SEPA Mandates
0670	Payment: Add to G/L Item
0671	Payments: Round Payment Amount
0675	Payments: Set Value Date
0680	Payments: Payment of Repayments
0690	Payment: Delete Payment Data
1740	Mass Activity: Payment Run
1741	Mass Activity: Payment Run (Move Parameters)

Technical information

Tables

Table	Description
DPAYH	Payment program – data for payment
DPAYP	Payment program – data on paid item
DPAYG	Payment program – payment group
DPAYC	Payment program – administrative records
BNKA	Bank master record
CCARD	Payment Card Master
REGUT	TemSe – Administration Data
T012	House Banks
T012K	House Bank Accounts
TFK000SEPA	Central Settings for SEPA
SEPA_CTRL	SEPA Mandate Management: System Control
SEPA_CUST	SEPA Mandate Management: General Settings

Package

Package	Description
FKKB	Contract A/R & A/P: Central Objects

Function Groups / Programs

Function Group	Program	Description
FKPMASS	SAPLFKPMASS	Mass Activity Payment Run

Programs

Program	Description
SAPFKPY3	Payment Program – Payment Media
RFKPYL00_GRID	List of Payment Data (ALV Grid with Logical Database)
RFKPYL00_MASS	List of Payment Data (Standard ALV with Logical Database)
RFKPYL00_SMPL	List of Payment Data (Simple List, No Logical Database)

Function modules

Function Module	Description
FKK_SAMPLE_1740	Mass Activity Payment Run: Start Payment Run
FKK_FPYM_START_PAYMENT_PROGRAM	Mass Activity Payment Run: Start Payment Run

Message class

Message	Description
>2	Contract A/R and A/P: Payment program

Authority

Object	Description
F_KKPY	FI-CA Automatic Payment Transactions in Contract A/R & A/P
F_KKMA	FI-CA Mass Activities in Contract Accts Receivable & Payable
F_KKKO_BUK	FI-CA Doc.in Contract Accts Rec.& Pay.: CoCode Authorization
F_KKKO_GSB	FI-CA Doc.in Contract Accts Rec. & Pay.: Business Area Auth.
F_KKKO_BEG	FI-CA Doc.in Contract Accts Rec. & Pay.: Acct Authorization

Creating Incoming and Outgoing Payments

The payment program makes payments automatically. To do this, it:

Determines the open items to be paid according to the selection criteria you entered for the payment run, and according to the due date of the open items.
Groups the due items into payments or debit memos in line with industry-specific or customer-specific conventions.
Selects the payment methods and the appropriate bank
Posts the payment document and clears the open items
Provides the data for the payment media

The payment medium program creates the data media. The formats required for this are supplied by SAP.

Modern payment procedures like bank direct debit, debit memo collection, bank transfer, and check are also supported, as is payment using a payment card. You enter payment procedures and the bank details to be used per business partner either in the contract account master record or (in exceptional cases) in the open item itself. If required, open items can be paid by an alternative business partner.

By setting minimum amount limits, you can prevent very small amounts from being paid. You can also block accounts or open items from being paid and enter a temporary processing block in contract accounts.

The system logs the processing steps you carry out.

Using the Payment Program

Customizing Settings

The following Customizing settings are necessary for the payment program (see Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Start of the navigation path Business Transactions Next navigation step Payments Incoming/Outgoing Payment Creation End of the navigation path ):

Definition of payment methods
Structure of note to payee

Company code data

General

Payment is not made if the item to be paid is smaller than the minimum amounts that you enter here. You can, however, override this setting by entering the payment method in the line item. This enables you to clear residual amounts following contract termination.
Payment medium format settings
Payment method settings
Determination of value date

To determine the value date in the payment document, the system adds the number of days that you specify in the parameters here until the value date to the posting date of the payment run.

Account determination – dependent on the processing type you specified for the payment method:

Processing Type	Account Determination
Bank account	The system automatically determines a bank clearing account for the bank line in the payment document. In Customizing, you can define the G/L account differentiated by house bank, account ID, payment method, and currency of the payment (in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Business Transactions Payments Incoming/Outgoing Payment Creation Define Bank Accounts for Payment Program
Internal clearing	An open item is automatically generated in the deposit account for the Insurance industry component.
Payment card	A posting is made to the reporting account defined in Customizing (see Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Business Transactions Payments Incoming/Outgoing Payment Creation Payment Cards Define Accounts for Payment Card Institute ).

Contract Account Specifications

In the contract account, the process flow of the payment program is influenced as follows:

Paying company code

The paying company code is determined from the company code group of the contract account. Payment method determination, house bank determination, bank line item of the payment document, the sender of payment orders, and other details are all determined by the paying company code.
Contract account used for payment in payment transactions

By specifying another contract account for the business partner, you can pay the items of both accounts together. The following details that are required for payment are determined solely by the contract account used to settle items:
- Payment method
- Payment lock
- Processing block for a limited time (for debit memos)
- Alternative payer
- Payer’s bank details
- Payer’s payment card ID

Line Item Specifications

The following details that the payment program takes into account in the open item can partly override the details defined in the contract account:

Due date details (net, cash discount, deferral)
Payment method
Payment lock
Alternative payer
Payer’s bank details
Grouping term
Indicator that the item can be cleared against other items only

Payment Run Specifications

You must also maintain the parameters for the payment run, restrict the quantity of data to be processed (by company code, business partner, contract account, due date period), control the bank selection, enter posting parameters, and make any other control settings. For more information, see Functions for Scheduling Program Runs.

Process Flow

When you start a payment run, the payment program carries out the activities described in the following topics:

Selecting Open Items
Grouping Items to Be Paid
Items with Special Treatment
Selecting Payment Methods and Bank Details
Value Date and Account Determination
Posting Payments and Providing Payment Data

Creating Payment Media

In the payment run transaction, choose Environment Payment Media .
In the corresponding fields, define a variant for each of the payment media to be created or for the payment list. Use the input help.
Save your entries.

To create your own variant for creating payment media, proceed as follows:

In the field Payment Medium Variant , enter the name of the variant that you wish to create.
Place the cursor on the variant name and choose Variant Maintain Variant.
Maintain the settings for screen assignment and choose Continue .
On the subsequent screen, define the required payment medium format.
In the Print Control area , set the indicator Data Medium Exchange to maintain the print parameters for the accompanying sheet, and the indicator Error Log to maintain the print parameters for the error log.
In the Output Control area, you can define the following settings:
- File Name : Name of the DME file if you output this in a file system of the application server. However, this output only takes place if you have set the indicator Output in File System .
- Form Accompanying Sheet DME : Here you can define a different SAPscript form for the payment media format to the one defined in the system settings if you want to create an accompanying sheet for a DME file (see the Implementation Guide for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, Business Transactions Payments Incoming/Outgoing Payment Creation Define Specifications for Paying Company Code (Payment Media Formats in Company Code )).
- You can also define the use of the ISO code for currencies.
- If you set the indicator Texts in Recipient Language , the information forwarded to the bank for the customer account statement is output in the language defined in the business partner master record.
Choose the button Attribute and enter the required meaning.
Save your entries.

In event 0699, you can start your own program/workflows or output additional logs once you have created the payment media. This event is processed once all payment media jobs started have been completed.

Using report RFKKPAYMJOBC you can get a current overview of the status of the payment media jobs and display job logs.

Special Features of the Format DTAUS0 for Germany

When you create the payment media, the system enters a value in the field Run Date ; depending on the due date of the cleared items, this can also be in the future. However, if the data media is to be executed by the bank immediately, leave the field blank. To do this, set the indicator Execute Immediately in the variant in the format parameters .

In the definition of the format, in the Implementation Guide for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Start of the navigation path Business Transactions Next navigation step Payments Incoming/Outgoing Payment Creation Define Specifications for Paying Company Code (Payment Media Formats in Company Code), End of the navigation path you can specify that the files are to be created in parallel. You can also specify a minimum number of payments within a payment group – grouping of payments by bank details and payment method by the payment program – from which parallel processing is to take place. This enables you to prevent smaller payment runs creating several files, each with very little payment data. If a payment group fulfills the minimum requirement, you still cannot predict what size the individual files will be.

Correspondence Banks

If you use payment media formats that consider correspondence banks, such as formats from EDIFACT, S.W.I.F.T (MT 100, 101, 103, 104, 200, and 202), or your own developments, for transfers from one bank to another, in Customizing, you can define a bank chain with up to three interim banks, the correspondence banks. You can define general and recipient-specific bank chains. You have to specify recipient-specific bank changes in the master data of the business partner on the tab page Payment Transactions in the area Bank Chains .

The function module FI_PAYMENT_BANK_CHAIN_SET determines the bank chains during the payment media creation and places them in the corresponding structures. If you want to use the function for the payment media formats stated, you have to add the call of the function module FI_PAYMENT_BANK_CHAIN_SET to the function modules defined for the events 0020 and 0030, or, for customer-defined developments, the events 0021 and 0031. The function module FI_PAYMENT_BANK_CHAIN_SET contains the data in the corresponding event module as import parameter.

You make the system settings for bank chains in the Implementation Guide for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Start of the navigation path Basic Functions Next navigation step Bank Chains. End of the navigation path .In the activity Define Scenario , you define for each scenario, whether the bank chain is determined via the general bank chain search and/or via the partner-specific bank chain search. If both fields are set, the partner-specific bank chain search has priority over the general bank chain search. Using the fields Sender Bank, Recipient Bank Country, Recipient Bank , and Currency , you can define a ranking for the bank chain search for each scenario. SAP delivers four standard scenarios; you can also generate your own scenarios.The bank chains that you create in the activity Set Up General Bank Chains are independent of the bank details of a business partner or of the house banks. For a bank chain ID, you can create up to three intermediary banks. The intermediary banks are linked independently of the recipient and sender banks.

SEPA Direct Debits

Entering, Displaying, and Changing Mandates

SAP supports you in processing and managing SEPA direct debits and SEPA bank transfers in conjunction with the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), which has as its goal the creation of a single European payments area. Mandates are granted by a paying party to a creditor as part of a debit memo procedure. In the SAP system, for mandates, you can:

On the SAP Easy Access screen under Payments SEPA Mandates , create, change, and display mandates
In the transaction for processing business partner data on the Payment Transactions tab by choosing theSEPA Mandates pushbutton, enter and display mandates for certain bank details or for the business partner

If you select certain bank details, you can enter and display the mandates for those bank details. If there are no bank details yet for the business partner, you can enter and display mandates for the business partner even without selecting bank details. This situation can arise, for example, if you have sent mandates without knowing the bank data, in order to find out the bank data.

If multiple bank details are available and you do not select specific bank details, the system displays the mandates for all bank details on one screen.
In the transaction for processing bank data, on the SAP Easy Access screen under Master Data Business Partner Change Payment Data , create, change, and display mandates for bank details

If a mandate already exists, the system displays an icon for displaying and changing the mandate. If no mandate exists, then an icon appears that you can choose to create new mandates.

You can display all mandates in the form of a list. On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Payments Next navigation step SEPA Mandates List End of the navigation path . You can also initiate a mass change of mandates. For more information, see the report documentation.

Evaluation of Mandates in the Payment Program

The payment program checks the existence and validity of the SEPA mandate. The system stores the ID of the SEPA mandate in the payment data, and generates a SEPA-specific payment medium as a result.

Payment Medium

For more information about the creation of payment media for SEPA, see SAP Note 1893915 Information published on SAP site .

Integration with Sales and Distribution

If you process billing documents from Sales and Distribution (SD) in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, then Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable copies the SEPA mandate ID from the SD billing document header to the open items.

If you enter a SEPA payment method, you can enter the SEPA mandate to be used when you enter or change an SD order. The payment run in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable requires the bank details of the business partner, but this information is not stored in the SD order. When the document is posted in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, the system determines the bank details of the business partner from the IBAN of the mandate and stores the information in the FI-CA document.

If you enter the mandate reference when entering an order in Sales and Distribution (SD), the system transfers this mandate reference to the related business partner item in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable. The payment run then takes the reference into account.

Printing Mandates

You can print out mandates and also repeat the printing. For printing mandates, SAP provides the sample formsSEPA_MANDATE for PDF and SEPA_MANDATE for SMARTFORM. You can also print using SAPscript. We do not, however, provide a template for this.

In the standard system, you can print mandates immediately using the Print (Print) pushbutton. The mandates are printed immediately on the output device specified by you. The system does not create an entry in the correspondence container. This means that the correspondence history does not display the correspondence.

You can also process printing using the correspondence container. In Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Start of the navigation path Business Transactions Next navigation step Payments Incoming/Outgoing Payment Creation Management of SEPA Mandates General Settings End of the navigation path , enter function module FKK_MANDATE_GEN_BUTTON_PRINTas the parameter Function Module for “Print Mandate” Button in the Other Parameters group box. The following printing options are available:

Print by entering the printing parameters

When you choose the Print Mandates (Print Mandates) pushbutton, you enter the printing parameters, such as form and output device, on the subsequent screen. You can then decide whether to print the mandate immediately using the specified printer ( (Print Immediately on Defined Printer) pushbutton) or whether to set the mandate in the print dataset ( (Set in Print Dataset of Mass Printing) pushbutton). In this case, the mandate is printed in the correspondence print run that you schedule periodically (seeScheduling Correspondence Printing Runs).
Print without printing parameters

When you choose the Delayed Print (Place in Correspondence Container) pushbutton, the system creates a correspondence request that you print out in the periodically scheduled correspondence print run.

In both cases, the correspondence history displays the correspondence.

Visibility of Mandate Fields

In Customizing, you can suppress the display of mandate fields at different levels. Specify the levels at which mandate fields are hidden in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Start of the navigation path Business Transactions Next navigation step Payments Incoming/Outgoing Payment Creation Management of SEPA Mandates Hide Mandate Fields End of the navigation path .

Payments by Payment Card

When receivables are paid with payment cards in the payment run, receivables due to the payment card institution arise. If the payment run has completed processing, you have to report and transfer the receivables arising to the instruction in a subsequent billing run.

On the SAP Easy Access screen under Start of the navigation path Periodic Processing Next navigation step Data for Externals Payment Card Organizations End of the navigation path , you can use the following functions:

Function	Use
Billing	Billing of data from a payment run or items to payment card institutes.The program creates a file with the selected payments and transfers the items from the receivables account to the clearing account. You can repeat the billing. Items to be billed are items in a receivables account (report account) still to be reported to a payment card institute. Billed items are items in the clearing account that have already been reported. This is the offsetting account for the incoming payment, so the balance of this account is then zero. See the report documentation for further information. Choose the ( Program Documentation) pushbutton.
Parallel Billing by Direct Call	Parallel processing of payment card payments (as a mass activity)This billing variant does not create a file. Instead, if you define event 1421 for your specific needs, this function allows online billing with immediate return of the results (a message stating whether billing was successful or not). In event 1421, the payments to be billed are grouped by payment card company, company code, agent ID, currency, and value date. This means that the event is called individually for each one of these groups. The system stores any error messages. You can display error messages in the document display for the payment document. The mass activity can select payments with errors, in addition to the payments for billing. These payments with errors are payments for which billing was unsuccessful during the last attempt. The system stores the results of the billing run in the existing log tables under the ID of the mass activity. The parallel processing object for this mass activity is theSubarea (KEYPP) field that you added to the payment card data table (DFKKOPKC) (see Prerequisites).
Display Data Media	Display of the contents of the generated data medium (only for billing by file)
List of Payments	List of payments that were billed
List of Bills	List of the invoices paid with the billed payments
List of Card Data	List of all business partners with card data

Using the function Delete Logs (SAP Easy Access screen: Start of the navigation path Periodic Processing Next navigation step Delete Data Payment Card Billing End of the navigation path ), you can delete old billing logs.

Activities

Payment Run

In the selection parameters of the payment run, specify a payment method that is designated for processing receivables with payment cards. If necessary, you can restrict the selection to one payment card type and thus process each payment card type in a separate payment run; the payment method of the category Card Paymentused is the same for every run. If the processing in a payment run takes place only for one specific payment card type, the program creates a corresponding message in the application log and a payment exception for contract accounts where other payment card types are defined.

A bank selection is not necessary for this payment method since there are no transfer postings to bank accounts. The payment program clears the open items and creates open items in the receivables account (reporting account) of the payment card institute.

Functions in Document Display

In the document display, you can display payment card data by choosing Start of the navigation path Extras Next navigation step Payment Card Supplement End of the navigation path .

Enhancement

You can add the format of the payment media in the following events:

Event	Meaning
1410	Payment cards: File header
1411	Payment cards: Payment file
1412	Payment card: Paid item file

For more information see the documentation for the sample modules defined for the events specified in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Start of the navigation path Program Enhancements Next navigation step Define Customer-Specific Function Modules End of the navigation path .

Payment Agreements

If you want to make payment agreements, activate the function in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Start of the navigation path Basic Functions Next navigation step Postings and Documents Basic Settings Maintain Central Posting Settings End of the navigation path by setting the Payment Amount Agreement Possible indicator.

On the SAP Easy Access menu under Start of the navigation path Payments Next navigation step Agree Payment Amounts End of the navigation path , you can maintain payment agreements in any currencies. You do this as follows:

Select the open items, for which you want to make an agreement, by business partner, contract account, contract, and company code, and net due date if necessary, and specify the agreement currency.

If you want to create a payment agreement for the total balance of a business partner (irrespective of the transaction currency of the individual open items), set the Select All Open Items indicator
Choose the Open Items pushbutton.

Items for which there is a payment specification or a debit memo notification are not selected.
If you want to create a payment agreement for the total balance of several business partners, choose the pushbutton with the quick info text Select Further Items to make further selections.
Select the items for which you want to make the agreement.

Double click the document number to navigate to the document display.
Under Agreement Data, the system totals the items in the original currency and displays the amount to be paid in the agreement currency according to the exchange rate table. In the Amount to be Split field, enter the payment amount that you have agreed on with the business partner and choose Continue.
Save your entry.

The system automatically splits the agreed amount over the selected open items proportionately and outputs the exchange rate resulting from the agreement.

If you have selected open items where the transaction currency and the agreement currency are the same, the system sets the agreement amount to the original amount and distributes the remaining amount to the other open items proportionately.

In the columns of the table containing the items, you can also define a date to which the agreement is to be valid. By setting the Evaluation in Payment Run indicator, you can determine whether the agreement is only valid for clearing online or also for processing using the payment program.

If you create payment agreements for the total balance of a business partner, during the automatic distribution of the agreement amount, for all items where the transaction currency is the same as the agreement currency, the system sets the agreement amount to the original amount and distributes the remaining amount proportionately to the other open items.

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