Use

A customer informs you that he will pay an outstanding receivable within a specified timeframe. You can store this information in the system in the form of a promise to pay.

Prerequisites

You entered reasons and categories for promises to pay in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA) by choosing  Business Transactions Promise to Pay.

Reasons could be "Call by customer," "Call by us," "Letter from customer," for example.

The categories contain default values for the number and the frequency of the payment dates of the individual partial payments, specifications for determining and posting interest and charges, and specifications for the effects on creditworthiness, interest, and charges when the promise is not fulfilled.

Features

To process promises to pay, in the SAP Easy Access screen, choose  Promise to Pay Edit . To display them, choose  Promise to Pay Display .

You can use events to trigger individual checks on the creation of a promise to pay.

At event 0183, you can restrict the categories permitted dependent on the business partner. If no category is permitted, then no new promise to pay can be created for this business partner.

At event 0187, you can check the promise to pay with all its detailed data. For example, you can use this check to prevent clerks from entering promises to pay with time periods that are too long.

See the documentation for the sample function modules FKK_SAMPLE_0183 and FKK_SAMPLE_0187.