F-03 - partial payment

Question

Dear all,
I want to use F-03 to clear open items of a GL account.
But the system is creating a new document instead of clear with one of the documents I choose.
I have initially chosen to do a partial payment (twice) and the payment item remains open.
I want to do partial payment because I don't want to create other document.
Ex:
Document     Value
20          10
30          10
40          10
50          10
60          -40
I want to clear 20 and 30 once with document 60 (partial 20), and other time with 40 and 50 and 60 again (partial 20).
Why the system is not clearing the document 60. And creates 2 new documents?
I know the sum is null, but I have to do this clearing in twice moments. It is possible?
Thanks,
P.

Answer 1

Hi,
    Partial payment never clears the open item unless it is fully cleared. For Eg: Suppose say you have an open item of 100$ and by using partial payment you paid 50$ the line item for 100$ will still be as an open item and a new document is created for 50$ by the system, only when you post the remaning 50$ the system takes these two 50$ line itmes into account and clears the invoice.
IF you dont want to have a new document follow residual payment were the system show only 50$ as open item after paying 50$ initally. But in most of the scenario company follow PARTIAL payment because the system shows the entire amount as open and the company can have tax benefit by showing the open items as liability.
Edited by: LOKY46 on Aug 8, 2011 7:27 PM