Direct Debit Discount to be posted

[Former Member]

Hello Friends,

The scenario is that here Direct Debit (ECS) is maintained for some customers by tagging them at incoming payment method. There should be discount posted for these customers where there is condition to check the mandate amount. This discount is to be calculated based on one of the line items of bill and is to be posted in the same invoice.

Can anyone have a solution on this..how it can be done, the best way.

Regards

Charvi

[Former Member]

Hi,

did you check event R402, you can there do a check on the lines of the bill beinig invoiced and then create a new posting on that same invoice, this items will then be used in account maintenance and a print document line item type NEWDOC will be created for printing.

Adriano.

[raviahuja]

Hi,

If it has to be posted as a part of same FICA document for being posted for invoice, you can use FQEVENT 0032. This event gives you an option to add extra line item in the same FICA document being posted.

Else if you need to post a separate FICA document, you can use event 0020 which gives you an option to post additional document other than the document being posted.

Thanks.

Ravi

[Former Member]

Hi,

event 0032 doesn't creates a print document line, in event R402 you can also add the postings in the same FICA document as the invoice items. And event 0020 is not really apropriated to do this kind of things, that's not the place to create new items in an invoice. At the same time you don't have the billing document information in these events as they are purely FICA events. If you use these two event be carefull to control that the process is really the invoice creation because these event are called for every FICA document creation.

Adriano.

[ivor_martin]

Hi,

As stated by our colleague, the 0020, 0030 and 0032 Events are quite complex and risky might affect your FICA document balance (e.g. Balance not equal to zero error). I have had some challenges with these Events.

You might want to do this in a 2 part approach:

1) Small enhancement to populate an Installation Fact (Incoming Payment Method, time-slcied) whenever the Incoming Payment Method is activated on the Contract Account

2) In Rates configuration, add a Rate Step to compute the Discount if the Incoming Payment Method Installation Fact is active. You may then reduce the Invoiced amount and ensure that the Sub transaction posted to is configured to post the the appropriate "Discount" GL Account in the FICA Account Determination configuration.

I hope this helps,

Ivor Martin