Payments from Third Pary

[former_member221838]

Hi Experts,

I would like to know different ways to process third party payments. Here our third party sends notification file (frequency half hour) containing list of contract accounts who made payments and respective payment amount. At the end of day they send payment file containing complete list with amount. I want to post pending payment on the contract account whenever I receive notification, and will convert this pending payment to actual payment once we receive payment file. Now my question is - how do we post pending payment? is it a statistical credit? what if I want pending payment posting to obey all my payment priority rules, is it possible? Please let me know your thoughts on the same. Thanks.

Kind Regards,

Nikhil

[william_eastman]

nikhil:

There are many possibilities for your situation. consider using payment specifications, payment advice notes, payment orders or external payment collector processing. There is help in the latter under payments and that seems the best fit to me.

regards,

bill.

[former_member213733]

Hi ,

There are mainly 2 ways in which external payments can be handled in the standard way in FICA .

1. External payment collector .

2. External cash desk facility .

In external payment collector , there is a facility of unconfirmed and confirmed file , that once the file is confirmed then only the same would be posted to contract accounts .

In case of a Z development then there are BAPI's availabe which can be used for payments upload like ,

BAPI_CTRACPAYMINC_APPEND Add Payments to Payment Lot

BAPI_CTRACPAYMINC_CLOSE Close Payment Lot

BAPI_CTRACPAYMINC_CREATE Create Payment Lot

BAPI_CTRACPAYMINC_RELEASE Release Payment Lot

BAPI_CTRACPAYMINC_SCHEDULE Post Payment Lot via Job

It is always advisable to go for standard method like external payment collector .

Kindly go through the below mentioned theread which contains the info. on external payment collector .

do revert back in case if you are still facing issues .

Regards ,

Dewang T

[Former Member]

Hi Dewang,

I have a question on one particular statement of yours above.

Will the payment from the external payment collector only be posted on the Contract Account after it is CONFIRMED by the vendor..

the sap help said, you can transfer advance payment information as unconfirmed payments and post them on the contract account using Payment Lots..

Thanks,

yuvi.