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Downpayment doubts

Former Member
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Hello Professionals,

I just need some help to clarify the following:

1. Can downpayment or its partial/full invoice be made with a Periodic billing plan or can only be with Milestone billing plan?

2. when downpayment is received in FI department, a downpayment request is created to settle it but will not yet clear it until the printing of the 1st partial invoice? If so, can i know the rationale?

3. is it that downpayment can be made a 2nd time to increase or decrease the downpayment amount paid in total and if there is still outstanding downpayment, this sum can be cleared together with the final invoice?

So, when downpayment is not yet fully cleared, the partial invoice and final invoice and be processed also?

4. If downpayment can be made 2nd time, how many times can downpayment be processed or made? Not fixed rule right?

best regards

Pascal

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Shiva_Ram
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1. Can downpayment or its partial/full invoice be made with a Periodic billing plan or can only be with Milestone billing plan?

- Normally with milestone billing

2. when downpayment is received in FI department, a downpayment request is created to settle it but will not yet clear it until the printing of the 1st partial invoice? If so, can i know the rationale?

- First the downpayment request is printed and sent to customer (billing document type FAZ). Against this document only, customer will make payments.

3. is it that downpayment can be made a 2nd time to increase or decrease the downpayment amount paid in total and if there is still outstanding downpayment, this sum can be cleared together with the final invoice?

So, when downpayment is not yet fully cleared, the partial invoice and final invoice and be processed also?

Per SAP documentation (http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/14/c8af5ad21411d2acc70000e8a5bd28/frameset.htm under payments made) if partial payment only made for downpayment, still it is considered as cleared. This means for the balance payment, user needs to manually enter as further downpayment request at the line item level.

4. If downpayment can be made 2nd time, how many times can downpayment be processed or made? Not fixed rule right?

- Again point 3 answers this question. By the way, if the business makes a contract with the customer for downpayment and milestone billing plans, then it is NOT normal that there are many partial payments for down payments.

Regards

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Former Member
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Hello ,

Please see this link.

http://sapsdforum.com/2008/05/24/configure-downpayment/

Thnaks,

venkataswamy.y