Payment Run for Customers

Question

Hi All,
In case of payment to the customer by executing/running F110, do we need to set up all customers as vendors in order for the F110 run to pick up the open items.
There is a Customer Accounts field where you can enter the range of customer accounts under "parameters" tab. Does these customer accounts have to be set up as vendors in order to pick up in the payment run or we can just enter the customer accounts without crearting them as vendors and it will pick up the open items due to pay to the customer.
Probably this is a very easy or basic question. I am confused so please answer me. I need to make payments to customers thru F110.
Regards,
Satya

Answer 1

Client has a difft scenario.
They pay to the customers for warranty and incentives. 2 ways to pay to the customer: generating payment run F110 within AR and the other being F110 from AP where all the customer open items are closed and sent to AP for payment using a custom program.
The problem with this is they have two interfaces each from AP and AR and aslo a custom program.
Now, solution is to pay all customers thru AP by setting each customer as vendor so that all the open items are picked in the payment run.
Next solution is to have single interface but paymentruns seperately from AR and AP. Both would send the files differently to Bank when paymnt run executed. Concern here is when both Ar and AP send files will the interface be able to handle it like 2 difft files or should there be any consolidation kind of thing.
Another question is, do we have to set up all customers as vendors in order to pay to the customer thru AP. There is customer accounts field where range of customer accounts can be added. Just by adding customer accounts, does it pick up the items for payment.
Please reply.
Satya