In addition to managing your own receivables, you can use the FI-CA component Revenue Distribution to manage receivables for third parties.

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>Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable

>Business Transactions

>Distribution of Revenues

Define Specifications for Derivation of Final Recipient
Define Specifications for the Distribution of Revenues
Define Main and Subtransactions for Distribution Posting

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Revenue Distribution

Incoming payments for third parties that you receive for example, as part of the exchange of information function, the use of value-added services, or the deregulated telephone market are automatically paid over to the final recipient.

You manage receivables for third parties and want to forward incoming payments to the final recipients.

You have made the following specifications for the distribution of revenues in the Implementation Guide forContract Accounts Receivable and Payable under  Business Transactions Distribution of Revenues .

Using the transaction Distribute Revenues , you select existing payments that are to be distributed.

The final recipients are noted in the open items and the items were cleared.

1. Choose the transaction Mass Activity: Revenue Distribution in the SAP menu under  Periodic ProcessingFor Contract Accounts Revenue Distribution Distribute Revenues.

2. Enter a date and an ID that you can use to identify the run later.

3. Restrict the payments to be selected by business partner, contract account, company code, or final recipient.

4. Start a simulation or schedule a run.

   For more information, see Functions for Scheduling Program Runs .

Post distribution

You use the transaction Post Distribution to distribute revenues (incoming payments) to final recipients.

You have selected the payments to be distributed via the Mass Activity: Revenue Distribution (menu:  Periodic Processing For Contract Accounts Revenue Distribution Distribute Revenues ).

1. Choose the transaction Revenue Distribution: Create and Post Documents in the SAP menu under  Periodic Processing For Contract Accounts Revenue Distribution Post Distribution .

2. Enter the run date and the ID of the distribution run ( Mass Activity: Revenue Distribution ) for which you want to post distributions. The program proposes a reconciliation key and the current date as document and posting date.

3. Start the run as a test run or post it immediately.

Creating Payment Advice Notes

The payments to be distributed to the final recipient are created in the form of totals postings. The payment program uses these to create a transfer. However, in this transfer for the final recipient, it is not visible which business partners have paid which open items. For the final recipient to see which paid items make up the payment amount transferred, in data medium creation you can create a payment advice note where you explain which payments make up the totals posting to the final recipient.

• The payment program is used for the payment to the final recipient; the data media are created in the payment program.

• There has been no manual or automatic clearing in the account of the final recipient, which means that you can use the payment program for payment.To prevent clearing, when you post the distribution documents, set the clearing restriction Z . This has the effect that only the payment program can perform clearing. To set the clearing restriction, make the corresponding setting in the Implementation Guide for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under  Business Transactions Distribution of Revenues Define Specifications for Distribution of Revenues .

• If a payment run posts payments to a final recipient and receivables for the same amount due to adjustment postings, zero balance clearing can occur. In this case, no data media and no payment advice note are created. You can prevent this by defining an installation-specific function module for event 0600. This module should set the different grouping criteria for credit memos and debits.

• You do not use a separate payment media format for revenue distribution – you use the same payment media formats for different payment methods. In the payment media format, in the company code you have defined that a payment note advice is only to be created for an excess of information lines. If you use your own payment media format for revenue distribution, in the company code you can configure that a payment medium advice note is always to be created. The subsequent steps are then partially superfluous.