FX Rates deviation at the time of customer Receipt

[SRINIVAS43]

We are facing an issue in FX rates deviation in customer receipts and while doing the BRS run.

While we are posting the customer receipts, we will provide the FX rates manually in post incoming payments screen.

And whenever we are running the BRS, system automatically taking the FX rates based on the posting date which we maintained in currency exchange rate application.

So now we have identified a difference between the FX rate used in customer receipt accounting and the day-wise FX rate considered by the system during BRS clearing.

Is there any configuration to use the same FX rate for BRS clearing as the one we used for customer receipt accounting without making any changes in currency exchange rate application?

Kindly provide the support at earliest possible.

Regards,

Srinivas 

[Jeremy_Deo]

Hello dear user,

And thank you for asking your questions in the SAP Community blog.

You're running into a common issue with foreign exchange rate differences between customer receipts and the bank reconciliation process.

When customer payments are posted manually, you're entering a custom FX rate on the "Post Incoming Payments" screen. But during BRS, SAP doesn't look at that rate. Instead, it uses the exchange rate maintained in the system for the posting date of the bank statement. This mismatch causes discrepancies in local currency and leads to exchange rate differences.

The main point:

There’s no standard config in SAP that tells the BRS process to use the manually entered FX rate from the customer receipt. It always pulls the daily rate from the currency tables (via the Currency Exchange Rate app).

Here’s some options you can consider (without changing rates in the system):

1. Manual adjustment during BRS

When you’re processing the bank statement (using "Reprocess Bank Statement" or similar apps), you can manually tweak the clearing amount in local currency to avoid exchange rate differences. It’s a bit manual, but it works.

2. Use bank clearing accounts

Instead of posting directly to the bank account, post incoming payments to a clearing account first. Then during BRS, just clear that entry without affecting the FX rate. The FX difference only hits once, during the original payment posting. This is a cleaner setup, especially if FX differences are a regular issue.

I hope this will help answer your question.

Best regards,

Jeremy