Define External Payment Parameters per Payment Method

Explanation

Use this activity to create new external payment parameters for a specific payment method and to select general matching parameters, e.g., if tolerances are to be used when the payment is matched.

The external payment parameters has the settings to import the external file and to process the external payment. You can only use the payment methods in the external interface for payments for which you have created the external payment parameters. The file import requires external payment parameters for a payment method which is linked to a payment format with a file template. A payment format without a file template can be used only to enter external payments manually. For this purpose, the payment method must be connected to payment format of type Empty Format.

If message codes are predefined in the payment format, the message codes will be copied to the message codes of the external payment parameters when the new external payment parameters are saved. The same applies for the reason codes, that can be predefined per message code in the payment format. Once the external payment parameters are created for the payment method, more parameters can be subsequently added, such as matching identifiers, segmentation criteria, company identifiers and tolerances for write-off. You can also modify the message codes, e.g. to specify the account or pseudo code that can used for a direct cash payment.

To create external payment parameters for a payment method:

Prerequisites

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System Effects

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