How are Payments Generated?

SunSystems Financials generates payments using the Payment Run (PYR) function. Payment Run produces the payment documents and transactions for the source transactions that you select for payment.

There are two ways you can select the transactions to be paid by Payment Run:

  • using payment profiles
  • via a control desk.

See 'Understanding Payment Run'.

Payment Profiles

A payment profile contains predefined selection criteria that extract transactions for payment. The selection criteria can also be modified at run time. A profile also identifies the type of payments you want to produce, the payment bank and other payment details. You identify the payment profile you want to use when you run Payment Run (PYR). It then selects the transactions according to the selection criteria and produces the payments.

See 'What are Payment Profiles?'

Control Desk - Payment Selection and Review

If you select the transactions via a control desk or with Payment Selection and Review (PYS), you can use a filter to extract the transactions you require. Then from the Control Desks In-Tray, select Payment Process to pass them to Payment Run. Payment Run then takes over and produces the payment documents and transactions as normal. See 'What are Control Desks?' if you are unfamiliar with this SunSystems facility.

Note: Even if you choose to select the transactions using a control desk, a payment profile is still required by Payment Run to identify the payment document details.