Payment Wizard was not executed [Message 3657-5]

Question

Using SAP 8.82 PL6.
I am trying to do a Payment Wizard for a company but when I run my wizard for all vendors or even for only 1 vendor, it fails with error message in subject line.
I already followed all steps of SAP Note 725786 - Definitions necessary for the payment wizard, so please don't send me that again or the related thread.
The only difference is that when the A/P invoice and A/P credit memos were created for say the single vendor ABC, the PeyMethod field was blank and before the payment run, these fields were populated with 'Outgoing check' payment method. Then the payment wizard was run, every step was okay except last step gave the error in subject line.
In Step 8 of 8 if I click non-included transactions, I get the message "In "Posting Date" field, enter posting date that is equal to or earlier than system date (Line 1)" but this message does not appear in the step 6 of 8 when I click non-included transactions in that step!!!
My posting date in invoice and credit memo is Mar 31, 2014, and system date is Apr 12, 2014.
I am able to create individual vendor Outgoing Payment transactions manually but not through the wizard. There are 300 vendors so I would like the wizard to work.
> The House bank is properly defined in setup as well in the vendor.
> The Vendor Payment Run tab was populated after the invoice and credit memos were created
> The Payment Method fields in invoice and credit memos were populated after these transactions were crested since they were blank
> The Business Partner Bank in 'Payment Terms' tab was blank since it is not an EFT/ACH transaction. These fields were also filled with a dummy bank but got the same error.
> Again, I am able to create a manual Outgoing transaction for each vendor one-by-one but the Wizard gives above errors.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Ajay Audich

Answer 1

Hi,
I was able to run the Payment Wizard. It was a simple fix really.
In Administration > System Initialization > Document Settings > General Tab > the box "Allow Future Posting Date" was unchecked > After checking it off, the Payment Wizard worked fine without the above error.
The manual Outgoing Payment that worked, after checking now, had a posting date defaulted to Apr 12, 2014 hence it worked manually but failed in the wizard!
Hope this helps someone else with a similar problem in future.
Cheers,
Ajay