Payment program (RFFOAU_T)

Question

Hi,
Can any one please let me know the functionality of payment program and use of this program.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

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Payment Medium for Australia - Bank Transfers/Debit Memo BECS
Description
The program issues data medium exchange in BECS, the disk format used by Australian banks.
As well as the payment media, the accompanying payment advice notes, data medium accompanying sheets and payment summaries can also be printed in one program run.
Requirements
Payment Program Configuration
The parameters that control the way in which the payment medium programs function are configured in Customizing. For more information on configuring the payment program, refer to the Implementation Guide.
Configure payment program
1. Here you need to make specifications for the paying company code. To do this, select the relevant paying company code by choosing Paying Company Codes ->.
If payment advices are to be printed, define a SAPscript payment advice form for use with all company code payment methods. You will find the form F110_IN_AVIS as an example in the standard system.
You need to create and enter text modules in which the texts for the header, footer, signature and sender are stored. These modules can be included in the forms when they are used. To do this, choose Sender Details, from where you can also branch into text maintenance by selecting the modules. The names of the text can be defined by the user, for example F_0001_HEADER for the letter header in company code 0001.
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2. Here you need to allocate the name of the payment medium program RFFOAU_T to the payment method to avoid incorrect payment media being issued with another program by mistake.
To do this, first choose Payment methods in country, then select the country of your paying company code and the payment method you require, and then maintain the data necessary for printing the form.
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3. Here you need to make company code specifications for the payment method. To do this, choose Payment Methods In Company Code, then select the paying company code and the payment method. In this menu maintain the following data by choosing Form data or Payment Advice Control:
The SAPscript form for accompanying sheets (F110_AU_BECS in the standard system) as the next form (for DME).
The issuer data.
Sorting the correspondence.
Sorting the line items.
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Note: You should fill out the issuer specifications as follows:
Line 1 Issuer's name (26 characters long)
Line 4 Issuer's city
4. You need to make further specifications for creating the payment medium in Customizing of the house banks. Select the relevant paying company code by choosing House Banks. In the maintenance of the house banks select your house bank and then maintain the required data via the button Data Medium Exchange. For more details refer to the online documentation for the relevant fields.
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Notes:
a) Common BSB numbers, which give a bank a unique identification, must be maintained for Australian banks. This three-character abbreviation is defined in the publication 'BSB Numbers in Australia', and is entered in the SAP system as part of the DME data maintenance in the field Altern. bank ID.
b) You need to maintain the lead days. The processing date (batch due date) is calculated from the posting date plus the lead days.
c) The company number (user identification number) is also transferred from the house bank's DME data.
Setting up and changing the SAPscript forms (layout sets)
The following describes the layout of the SAPscript forms in brief. If the forms available in the standard system are sufficient for your requirements, you can skip this part of the documentation.
You can find further information on forms and the SAPscript editor in the guides on styles and form maintenance and word-processing in the SAPscript editor: Select the menu path Help -> SAP Library.
1. When setting up SAPscript forms (layout sets), symbols are included in the text; these are then replaced by actual values when the payment medium programs are run. The fields which can be used for this are defined in the Repository and contained in the following structures:
REGUH Settlement data from the payment program
REGUP Edited invoice items from the payment program
REGUD Formatted data for printing the forms
SPELL Amounts and digits in words.
FSABE Data on accounting clerk.
2. If you want the document long text for an accounting invoice document to be printed on the payment advice form, you must make the following enhancement in element "Long text for invoice document" (specially designed for this purpose):
/: DEFINE &TXT& := '&REGUP-BUKRS()&&REGUP-BELNR(RF0)&&REGUP-GJAHR&'
/: INCLUDE &TXT& OBJECT BELEG ID xyz
The text ID that you must enter for this text (xyz) is defined in the configuration menu and can be read from there. In the standard system, text ID 0003 is predefined for the payment advice information.
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3. Layout of the payment advice form (F110_IN_AVIS in the standard system)
Pages
FIRST First page per payment advice
NEXT Subsequent pages if page overflow
EDI List of payment advice notes sent per EDI
LAST Form summary section per house bank
Windows and elements
HEADER Letter header
ADDRESS Sender and address of the payee
PAGE Page counter
INFODate, payment document number, etc.
INFO      605Account number of the sender at the recipient
INFO2 Information on the next pages
REPEAT Information for the test print or proposal run
MAIN Form of address before the letter
MAIN      610-x Short text for payment method x
MAIN      610 Letter when 610-x is missing
MAIN      612Alternative payee
MAIN      613 Notification takes place in order
MAIN      614 Signature
MAIN      615 Heading of the invoice item information
MAIN      620 Carryforward at page top after page overflow
MAIN      625Invoice item information
MAIN      625-TXLong text for invoice
MAIN      625-HRInformation line for Payroll Accounting
MAIN      630Sum total
MAIN      631 User-defined text after invoice items
MAIN      675 Header for EDI advices
MAIN      676List of EDI advices
TOTAL     630 Sum total of fixed items
CARRYFWD  635 Carryforward at page bottom for page overflow
FOOTER Letter footer
SUMMARY Form summary section
4. Layout of the data medium accompanying sheet (F110_AU_BECS in the standard system)
Pages
DME Accompanying sheet
LAST Form summary section for each house bank
Windows and elements
DOMESTIC  535 Accompanying sheet
Check that the SAPscript forms (layout sets) which you use have the layout described and, in addition, check that the forms are active (both in the original language as well as in all languages into which the forms were translated).
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Periodic processing
Before the payment medium programs can be started, the payment program run must have been successfully completed. Check the status of the payment run, or schedule the payment medium programs by specifying one or more variants.
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Note: If you want to use th 'Payment document update' option, the payment documents must be updated between the time of the payment program run and the time of the payment medium program run.
Output
Forms and lists
Printout files are created per company code and house bank. These can either be printed via the print manager or immediately. Depending on the parameter you select, you can print out one or more of the following:
Accompanying sheet for the payment medium
Payment advice notes (if the information cannot be sent via EDI)
Payment summary
Error log
The number of output files is specified in the flow trace; this makes finding and allocating them within the print manager easier.
Proceed
Note: If the program was started online, then you reach the print manager from the list by selecting one of the output files displayed.
Payment Advice Notes
In addition to being able to print payment advice notes, you can also send these via EDI, fax or email.
1. To send a business partner a payment advice note via EDI, you need to select the indicator Payment advice note per EDI and maintain the partner agreement on screen "Payment Transactions Accounting" in the master record.
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Using an external converter, the IDoc created by the program can be converted into the EDI format you require (REMADV for example) and then sent.
2. To send a business partner a payment advice note by fax or email, you must use the process interface 00002040 (Business Transaction Events) to define the selection of the message type (printout, fax or email). Before you can do this, however, you must have carried out the necessary technical (Basis) settings for faxing or sending emails.
Process interface 00002050 can also be used to change or configure the print parameters and the parameters for optical archiving for payment advice notes.
DME
Data medium exchange in this case involves the creation of a file which corresponds to the rules of the credit institution in question for automatic payment transactions and which contains all the necessary payment information.
The information relevant for the payment medium (file format, creation data, payment amount in local currency, payment documents involved etc.) are stored in the system and can be called up via the DME manager.
Other functions of the DME manager are:
Downloading the file into your local (PC) file system
Displaying and printing the file contents
Generating a payment summary for the data medium
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You will find further information about the structure of the data medium in the technical description.
Output in the file system
If required, the file can be written into the file system. The file created can be copied onto a PC via the DME manager. When doing this, you should search for files by download since the data medium is not managed within the SAP System but has already been stored in the file system by means of the payment medium program.
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If the file name is not to be specified by parameter, then it is generated by the program. It then consists of the disk format, date and time of creation as well as a consecutive number so that the file name in the file system is unique.
If the file name is specified by the user, then a consecutive number is likewise added for each program run. From an organizational point of view, however, you should make sure that already existing files are not overwritten.
Note: If you cannot find the file via the DME manager, then this can be due to the following reason: the directory which was written to when the payment medium program  was started (for example, in background processing), cannot be read online. Therefore you should choose a directory which can be written to and read by different machines.
Due to the above-mentioned problems and the affect this has an data security, it is advisable not to write data to the file system. It may be advisable to use this method in cases where the data medium file is 'picked up' from the file system by an external program to be passed on to the bank.
Output in the TemSe
If required, the file created can be stored within the SAP System (stored in the TemSe and not in the file system), thus protecting it from unauthorized external access. You can download the file into the user's file system via DME management.
The name of the file to be created during the download can be determined when running the payment medium program; the contents of the file name parameter are stored in the management data and defaulted when running the download.
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User exit
You can modify the dataset for data medium exchange by using the user exit interface defined. You can, however, only change the fields of the DTAMAU0 structure.
Creating a user exit
The print program calls up the EXIT_RFFOEXIT_210 function module. Please take the input and output parameters for the user exit from the function module interface.
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Create an include file with the name ZXFORU32 to program the modifications required.
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The file is included in the EXIT_RFFOEXIT_210 function module. Use the Enhancements transaction for activating or deactivating your user exits by activating or deactivating the RFFOX210 project affected.
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Error messages and error log
Termination of processing
You can find out the reason why processing was terminated (for example, production run not yet carried out, form does not exist or is not active) by looking at the error message or the related long text.
Internal SAPscript error
Check the layout of the forms. It must fulfil the above-mentioned conditions. You cannot, for example, create a bank transfer with the check print program, since bank transfers and checks have a completely different layout structure.
Error log
If errors which do not terminate the payment medium program occur when creating the output, the system lists them in the error log. If such a log is created, you must look it over because only you can decide whether the payment medium or payment advices are useless due to the errors the system finds, and decide whether they must be recreated after the errors have been rectified.
During background processing, the system outputs the error log twice, in the flow trace for the job and in a printout file. The flow trace contains information on how to rectify the errors (from the error message long texts).
You can display the long text online by choosing the error log from the list of generated output files and then the error message in question.
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