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Payment advice vs Payment Specification

Former Member
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Hi,

What's the difference between

Payment advice

FPAV - From Customer

vs

Payment Specification

FPAY1B - Create for Payment Lot

Thanks a lot,

Mario

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Former Member
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Hi Mario.


FPAY1B (Payment Specification for Payment Lot) is used in combination with FP05 (Payment Lot). When running FP05 transaction, you can select J as a selection category (field PDKEY) and enter the created payment specification. That way you can define which open items are payed with the summary payment in the payment lot. Clearing control (20A) has to be maintained.

On the other hand, FPAV (Payment Advice Note, From Customer) can also used in combination with FP05, but with another selection category, for example L (field AVKEY).

When using Payment Advice Note (FPAV) you can choose the selection category and enter the value (for example contract, contract account or document number) (which is useful when a customer sends you a paper with the specification of the summary payment he did to your account), while when using Payment Specification (FPAY1B) you can choose among the open items for the selected criteria (which is useful, for example, when you want to group several payments into one summary payment and ask the customer to pay those open items).

Hope it helps!

Marko