Single Settlement Requests

Definition

Payment document in Agency Business used to enter an incoming invoice.

A special feature of this document type is that no preceding documents are required in the system to facilitate generation. However, follow-on documents can be generated from this document type.

The single settlement request is defined in the Business Object Repository (BOR) as an SAP Business Object (type: BUS2100002). For more information, see Business Objects, BAPIs, ALE Interfaces in Agency Business.

Use

You use the single settlement request to enter incoming invoices from a vendor to a customer without reference to any previous purchasing transactions. The system uses the condition technique to calculate your commission (for example del credere commission). For further information on price determination using the condition technique, see Functional Prerequisites for Agency Business.

You can enter single settlement requests in the system using individual entry or list entry. For further information, see Individual Entry of a Single Settlement Request and List Entry of a Single Settlement Request.

You can also enter incoming invoices in the system in a settlement request list. However, the settlement request list is a separate payment document that has several different features to the single settlement request (see Settlement Request Lists).

When the document is entered, the system determines the terms of payment and conditions relevant for the business partner.

You can generate accounting documents and other follow-on documents from the single settlement requests, and can use these to credit and debit the vendor and customer accounts.

Integration

You can create the following follow-on documents from single settlement requests:

• Remuneration lists
• Accounting documents
• Profitability analysis documents
• Documents for Cash Management
• Partner billing documents

On the Accounting details screen, you can display a list of the accounting documents, profitability analysis documents, etc.

On the Document flow details screen, you can display the follow-on documents that are created (see Display Document Flow).

For further information, see Entering Documents and Creating Follow-On Documents.