Payment terms and discount voor the purchasing invoice

Question

Hi all,
In the definitions of the payment terms, you can choose how the Due date should be based on: Document date, Posting date, System date or Closing date..we choose for the Document date. (due date = doc. date + 30 days)
In the payment terms you can also define a cash discount if we pay the suppliers invoice within certain days, than we can deduct a discount of the total amount to be paid.
So we define f.e. within 14 days, 2%.
However the title of this colums says: Days after Posting date and the system also react like this.
The posting date of the suppliers invoice can ofcourse be different as the document date of this suppl.invoice.
F.e.: Suppliers Invoice: doc. date 30/9/2008, Posting date: 18/10/2008, Due Date 1/11/2008 (Doc.date + 30 days)
Payment at 25/10/2008 by the payment wizard.
The wizard still deduct 2 % as the due date of this invoice has not been reached, while the 2% should only be deducted if we pay before 14/10/2008.
So as we defined the due date based on the Document date, but the cash discount uses the posting date. (column title)
Is this wrong in the definitions or standard behaviour.
How can I use the cash discount in the payment terms?
Please advise.
Best regards,
Carl Verhagen

Answer 1

Hi Peter,
I'm talking about the A\R invoice.
The supplier sent his invoice with document date 1/10/2008 and his payment terms is payment within 30 days.
We receive the invoice at 3/10/2008 and after control etc. we will post the invoice at 7/10/2008.
If we use the posting date as a base for the due date, the invoice have to be paid at 6/11/2008, but the suppliers due date is 31/10/2008 and that's a difference of 1 nearly week.
If there are problems (f.e. caused by ourself) and the invoice will be booked at 20/10, we still have time to pay it before the due date 31/10 instead of 19/11/2008)
I think that the supplier will not be amused if we use the posting date as the base for calculating the due date.
We can discuss what's right to use, but SAP B1 gives the opportunity to choose between Doc.date, posting date and system date as a base for calculating the Due date but for cash discount it's automatically the posting date??
Best regards,
Carl Verhagen