Down Payments for Sales Orders (Basis: Billing Plan)

A down payment agreement is created as a deadline in the billing plan. This enables you to agree on as many down payments as required for different dates. DownPaymentsforSalesOrders(Basis:BillingPlan) Use Thisfunctionsupportsdownpaymentsinsalesordersinconjunctionwiththebillingplan. Prerequisites ForinformationaboutthesettingsinCustomizing,see Customizing . Features DownPaymentAgreementsintheSalesOrder Downpaymentsformpartoftheagreementwiththecustomerandaresavedinthesalesorder. Adownpaymentagreementiscreatedasadeadlineinthebillingplan.Thisenablesyoutoagreeonasmanydownpaymentsasrequiredfordifferentdates.Thedateforthedownpaymentrequestyettobecreatedisspecifiedinthedeadline,andthesystemusespaymentconditionstoassignaduedatetothedownpayment. Thevalueoftheagreeddownpaymentcaneitherbecreatedasanamountorpercentagevalueoftheitem. Ifadownpaymentagreementisassignedtooneitemwithabillingplan,thedownpaymentagreementiscontainedasadeadlineinthisbillingplan. DownPaymentRequest Adownpaymentrequestissenttothecustomerintimeforthedeadline.Therequestcanbegeneratedbythesystemfromthebillingduelist,oryoucanenteritmanually.ThedownpaymentrequestisautomaticallypostedassuchtoFinancialAccounting. Thedownpaymentrequeststhatarecreatedarevisibleinthedocumentflowofthesalesorder. IncomingPaymentsforaDownPaymentRequest Whenyoupostanincomingdownpayment,thesystemproposesandassignstheavailabledownpaymentrequests. PartialorFinalInvoicewithDownPaymentClearing Inpartialinvoicesandforthefinalinvoice,thedownpaymentsthathavebeenmadearecopiedtothebillingdocumentasdownpaymentsforclearing.Thevalueofthedownpaymentsforclearingisdisplayedinthecustomerinvoice. Theamountofdownpaymentsforclearingcanbechangedinapartialorfinalinvoice. ThedownpaymentsforclearingthathavebeenassignedtoabillingdocumentcausethesystemtoclearallthecompleteddownpaymentsagainstthereceivablesinFinancialAccounting.  NoteCancellationispossiblenotonlyforthedownpaymentrequestbutalsoforaninvoicewithdownpaymentclearing. Endofthenote.