Examples of payment agreements

This example describes:

  • The definitions of payment agreements PA1, PA2, and PA3.
  • The sales invoices that you must pay to the invoice-from business partners BP1, BP2, and BP3.
  • The payment advices that result from applying the payment agreements.

Payment agreement definitions

Payment agreements PA1, PA2, and PA3 are defined as follows:

Payment agreement PA1
Currency JPY
Limit 100,000
Next PA PA2
Sequence 1 2
Agreement type Percentage Percentage
Amount - -
Percentage 30 70
Payment method PM1 PM2

Payment agreement PA2    
Currency JPY    
Limit 200,000    
Next PA -    
Sequence 1 2 3 4
Agreement type Amount Amount Percentage Percentage
Amount 50,000 50,000 40 60
Percentage - -    
Payment method PM3 PM4 PM1 PM2

Payment agreement PA3
Currency USD
Limit 30,000
Next PA -
Sequence 1 2
Agreement type Percentage Percentage
Amount - -
Percentage 40 60
Payment method PM5 PM6

Business partner BP1

For invoice-from business partner BP1 you have open entries ACR1 and ACR2.

Invoice Currency Amount Payment agreement
ACR1 JPY 20,000 PA1
ACR2 JPY 30,000 PA1

Applying the payment agreements results in these payment advices:

Invoice Sequence Currency Amount Payment method
ACP1 1 JPY 15,000 PM1
ACP1 2 JPY 5,000 PM2
ACP2 1 JPY 30,000 PM2

The payment agreement on the invoices is PA1

PA1 limit = 100,000

The total invoice amount is 20,000 + 30,000 = 50,000. This amount is less than the PA1 limit. Consequently, PA1 is used.

30 percent of the amount (= 15,000) is paid using payment method PM1. This covers the first 15,000 of invoice ACR1.

The remaining 70 percent (= 35,000) is paid using payment method PM2. This covers the remaining 5,000 of invoice ACR1 plus the full amount of 30,000 of invoice ACR2.

Business partner BP2

For invoice-from business partner BP2 you have open entries ACR3 and ACR4.

Invoice Currency Amount Payment agreement
ACR3 JPY 110,000 PA1
ACR4 JPY 40,000 PA1

This results in these payment advices:

Invoice Sequence Currency Amount Payment method
ACP3 1 JPY 50,000 PM3
ACP3 2 JPY 50,000 PM4
ACP3 3 JPY 10,000 PM1
ACP4 1 JPY 10,000 PM1
ACP4 3 JPY 30,000 PM2

The payment agreement on the invoices is PA1

PA1 limit = 100,000. The next payment agreement is PA2.

The total invoice amount is 110,000 + 40,000 = 150,000. This amount exceeds the PA1 limit. Consequently, PA2 is used.

50,000 is paid using payment method PM3. This covers the first 50,000 of invoice ACR3.

50,000 is paid using payment method PM4. This covers the next 50,000 of invoice ACR3.

The total remaining amount is 150,000 - ( 2 * 50,000) = 50,000.

Of the remaining amount, 40 percent (= 20,000) is paid using payment method PM1. This covers the remaining 10,000 of invoice ACR3 plus the first 10,000 of invoice ACR4.

The remaining 60 percent of 50,000 (= 30,000) is paid using payment method PM2. This covers the remaining 30,000 of invoice ACR4.

Business partner BP3

For invoice-from business partner BP3 you have open entries ACR5, ACR6, and ACR7. Note that the invoice currency of ACR7 differs from the other invoice currencies, and therefore a different payment agreement must be used.

Invoice Currency Amount Payment agreement
ACR5 JPY 5,000 PA1
ACR6 JPY 5,000 PA1
ACR7 USD 20,000 PA3

This results in these payment advices:

Invoice Sequence Currency Amount Payment method
ACP5 1 JPY 3,000 PM1
ACP5 2 JPY 2,000 PM2
ACP6 3 JPY 5,000 PM2
ACP7 1 USD 8,000 PM5
ACP7 3 USD 12,000 PM6

The payment agreement on invoices ACR5 and ACR6 is PA1. The payment agreement on invoice ACR7 is PA3.

PA1 limit = 100,000

The total invoice amount for the JPY currency is 3,000 + 2,000 + 5,000 = 10,000. This amount is less than the PA1 limit. Consequently, PA1 is used for the invoices ACR5 and ACR6.

30 percent of the amount (= 3,000) is paid using payment method PM1. This covers the first 3,000 of invoice ACR5.

The remaining 70 percent (= 7,000) is paid using payment method PM2. This covers the remaining 2,000 of invoice ACR5 plus the full amount of 5,000 of invoice ACR6.

The payment agreement on invoice ACP7 = PA3.

PA3 limit = 30,000

The total invoice amount of invoice ACR7 is 20,000. This amount is less than the PA3 limit. Consequently, PA3 is used.

40 percent of the amount (= 8,000) is paid using payment method PM5. This covers the first 8,000 of invoice ACR7.

The remaining 60 percent (= 12,000) is paid using payment method PM6. This covers the remaining 12,000 of invoice ACR7.