Periodic Billing within SD using recurring charges

[Former Member]

HI,

I work for a local authority that has lease agreements and service charges for properties in the area. At the moment these charges are not on SAP.

Is there any way that you can use recurring charges in the SD module to create these accounts? I think the issue would be the calculation of any adjustments should the lease cease or amended.

Can you calculate the adjutments manually and still use recurring charges or is the Real estate module a better fit for this?

Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks,

Elaine Gray

[Former Member]

Hello Elaine

SAP- Real Estate would definitely be a better bet because it is a specialist module. But I have no idea of its functionality benefits vis a vis standard solution.

That said, you can meet the requirement with rental (MV) or service contract (WV) with Periodic billing plan. You can charge the monthly rental in advance or after the month is over using date rules and other billing plan features, Since a lease is essentially a contract with start date- End date, these contracts work well, you can also bill for partial months at the beginning or end and incorporate penalties for lease break etc with a Contract cancellation procedures or manually with Debit notes. Build a prototype keeping in mind Billing plans take some trial and error to arrive at the final solution.