Groups effect on pay cycles
Defining multiple pay groups, process groups, and invoice groups can affect your payment cycle. This table contains descriptions of the effect of groups on specific programs that you run in a pay cycle:
| Process | Effect |
|---|---|
| Cash requirements | You can run cash requirements once for an entire pay group. You can
run it several times concurrently for individual process groups within
the same pay group. Each time you run this process, you select records
for different vendors and schedule those invoices for payment. If you run cash requirements by process group, the vendor priority is not considered when selecting invoices. To accomplish this type of processing, you must define process groups by vendor priority. |
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After you schedule all of the invoices that you want to pay, run one of
the payment creation programs to pay all scheduled invoices. One payment
form or payment record is created for each vendor processed for each
combined cash code and payment code in the pay group. If invoices are assigned with different invoice groups, then a separate form for each invoice is created by the system. For example, if you use two pay groups to process payments for two process levels, then two payment files are created. They are created by electronic payment file creation If you only use one pay group, then a single payment file is created by electronic payment file creation, even if you have multiple process groups. |
| Payment closing | To close the payment cycle, run the payment closing program for an entire pay group or run the program concurrently for individual process groups. You can select either option, regardless of how you processed cash requirements. For example, even if you ran cash requirements by process group, you have the option to run payment closing by pay group or process group. |