What are the Payment Run Time Selection Criteria?

When you define a payment profile you can select up to five run time selection criteria. These selection criteria appear when you run a Payment Run or Payment Collection Run, and allow you to refine the selection criteria for the payment or collection run.

For example, you may want to pay a range of supplier/payables accounts but do not know which accounts until you are ready to run the payment run. You can set up a payment profile and choose Account Code as one of the run time selection criteria. Then, when you run the payment run you are asked to enter the range of accounts to be considered for payment.

The run time selections you make in the payment run and payment collection run are 'remembered' and recalled when the profile is selected subsequently.

You can choose up to five of the following details as run time selection criteria for a payment profile:

  • Account Code
  • Transaction Reference
  • Journal Type
  • Journal Source
  • Payment Limit
  • Allocation Marker
  • Account Analysis Codes
  • Ledger Transaction Analysis Codes

Using the Allocation Marker to Select Transactions

You can use the allocation marker to select transactions for a payment run or payment collection run by selecting Allocation Marker as one of the run time selection criteria. This allows you to choose the allocation marker or a range of markers at run time. See Using Allocation Markers to Select Transactions for Payment.

Note:  You must choose Allocation Marker as one of the run time selection criteria to allow the user to enter a range of allocation markers, even if you choose Allocation Marker in Payment Run as the Payment Option in Payment Profile (PYP).

Using the Payment Option

You can also choose to select transactions using the payment basis options. This allows you to select transactions based on the allocation marker and/or payment due date. Several predefined selection options are available which may mean you do not need to use the run time allocation marker.

For example, by selecting Force as the payment basis, only transactions with a Force allocation marker are selected. Whereas, if you select Due Date as the payment basis, transactions are selected according to their due date and transactions marked Force are included (transactions with a marker of Withhold or a numeric marker 0-9 are excluded).

See Using Due Date to Select Transactions for Payment and the Payment Option definition in Setting Up Payment Profiles.