Payment lot - different clearing variants?

[former_member302974]

Dear experts,

in our business scenario we create payment lots for the different payment sources (PayPal, credit card, bank statement).

In FI-CA standard customizing, it's only possible to assign one clearing variant to the clearing type "05 - Payment Lot".

What we want to do:  we have defined customer specific clearing reason for the payment lots.

E.g. for clearing reason "Z1" in the payment lot, clearing variant "Z1" should create the clearing proposal.

Does anybody know how to assign different clearing variants to a payment lot?

There seems to be an event R400 in IS-U for this kind of request, does anybody know how to do this in FI-CAX?

Best regards,

Christian

[AmlanBanerjee · Accepted solution]

Hi Christian,

As per Industry Best practice, its always recommended to use the SAP standard clearing reasons.

The reason being there are Standard SAP checks based on the clearing reason in many business processes.

So I would not recommend you to go for a custom clearing reason.

What to Do?

I guess you will have a unique identifier in the Payment lot to identify which one is Pay pal and which one is for credit Card etc. It can be document type, bank clearing A/c etc..

First Create three clearing categories and three clearing variants, say one for Pay pal, one for CC and one for Bank Statement.

Now assign them as the alternate clearing variant for the clearing type 05 (payment Lot).

So you will have three different clearing categories with three different clearing variants.

Now make a copy of the FM, FKK_SAMPLE_TFK113E_04 and plug in an enhancement based on the unique identifier whether its for pay pal or credit card etc, and change the Clearing category.

Assign this custom FM to "Program Enhancement" under event 04 in the "Define Defaults for Incoming Payments" configuration node.

In this event, you can overwrite the clearing category that was determined by the program in the standard system that is being maintained at the CA level.

So now depending on the unique identifier, the event will set the clearing category, which in turn will trigger the clearing variant (for paypal or credit card) and will clear the outstanding receivables accordingly.

Hope it helps.

Thanks,

Amlan

[former_member302974 · Accepted solution]

Dear Amlan,

thank you very much for your quick reply!

I will try your recommendation in the system.

Best regards,

Christian