Post incoming payments based on Invoice number.

Question

Hello,
I would appreciate your help on the following question. POINTS AVAILABLE. <b>Is there a way for us to post an incoming partial payment from a customer based only on the invoice number?</b>
For example, a customer has several open invoices and want to make a partial payment on 1 of the invoices. <b>I know we can do it using F-28 (Partial Payments tab), however, is there any other way to post a payment to a particular invoice without entering a customer number?</b> Using F-28 brings up all the invoices and pmts for the customer.
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

<b>This is the documentation about the program:</b>
<b>F.13</b>
This program clears open items from customer, vendor and G/L accounts (in particular, GR/IR clearing accounts) automatically.
It selects all accounts specified in the value sets that have debit and credit postings.
The following items are not cleared:
Noted items
Statistical postings and special G/L transactions of the type bill of exchange
Items with withholding tax postings
Down payments can only be cleared if down payment clearing for the same amount has been posted
The remaining open items are grouped according to fixed system criteria:
Company code
Account type
Account number
Reconciliation account number
Currency key
BSID-WAERS for customers
BSIK-WAERS for vendors
BSIS-PSWSL for G/L accounts
Special G/L indicator
The program also groups items according to a maximum of five user criteria. Note that the trading partner number and the business area are no longer fixed system criteria (in comparison to the former clearing programs SAPF123 and SAPF123W). Therefore, if you want to group by business area or trading partner number, you have to enter these as user criteria.
Clearing takes place when, for the group of line items selected according to the above criteria, the balance in document currency (for customers and vendors) or in update currency (for G/L accounts) is zero. The date for clearing is the clearing date according to your selection specifications. In an update run, if the clearing transaction is successful, the clearing document number is specified.
During the program run, all accounts in which clearing can be performed are blocked. They are then unblocked again after the clearing transaction. Accounts that are blocked by other transactions or that are intended for the automatic payment run are not considered in automatic clearing
<b>OB74</b>
Prepare Automatic Clearing
In this activity you enter the criteria for grouping an account's open items for automatic clearing. The clearing program clears the open items that are grouped together if their total balance equals zero in local and foreign currency.
You must enter the following standard criteria:
account type
account number or a number interval
You can also enter a further five criteria.
You select these five additional criteria from the fields in table
BSEG or BKPF. If possible, you should choose fields that are also
contained in table BSIS (G/L accounts), BSID (customers), or BSIK
(vendors). You can determine the field names by displaying the tables
in the Data Dictionary, which you reach by choosing
Tools -> ABAP Workbench and then Dictionary.