External Payment Collector

[Former Member]

Hi team,

Could you please clarify on functionality of External Payment collector in FICA

- The relevance & function of  Payment Form Number

Thanks ,

Lax

[Former Member]

Hi Lax,

External Payment collector as it says - is external agency that collects payment on behalf of your company. It can be bank, post office or some other collecting agency.

Usually, collecting agency at the end of the day sends report on daily collected payments in form of file (text file, comma separated) predefine structure. Your company receives the file, validates it and posts the payment using payment lot transfer program in SAP.

This is usually batch processing after business hours.

Regarding payment form number documentation says: "Unique number assigned internally by the system and assigned to a payment form. This number is included on the correspondence (such as a dunning notice) sent to the business partner." - very clear.
Often it is called "call for payments" number.

Hope it helps!

Chrs,

Mario

[Former Member]

Thanks Mario for explanation.

Still am not able to clear ....

1. Do company needs to send open items to external payment collector  if Yes  what is the difference from external collection agencies functionality

2. Does it required to capture Payment document number in Invoice ( Open Item) ,if Yes , which is the field in Invoice line item ?  What is the  Input value against Payment document number in  payment lot (FP05) creation

BR,

Lax

[Former Member]

1. Nope. Customers comes with his invoice to external payment collector and performs payment based on invoice.

2. For this I'm not sure but I think here you assign (display in correspondence layout) XBLNR (reference document number) or OPBEL posting document id based on clearing customization.

When customer comes to collection agency with his invoice that number should be visible on invoice layout as clearing reference to open item. That number will be assigned to customer payment line in text file collection agency provides to your company at the end of the day.

If reference isn't provided than clearing can be based on business partner id, on business partner id and amount, etc..

Clearing is financial topic that can be discussed for hours

Best regards,

Mario

[Former Member]

Thanks Mario.

Regards,

Lax