Travel Advance Request Payment

In travel management, my organisation wants to go through the process of travel advance approval and payment before the trip is done. I would need the details of the steps required to
- post the approved request to financial accounting (so there would be a basis for advance payment) before the payment can be done)
- post the travel expenses against the travel request when the trip is completed.
My problem is that the system requires the travel request to be settled before it is transferred to accounting. Settling the travel request means that the travel is completed and that is not what I want to achieve at the travel request stage. Can anyone please urgently help out with this?

Hi Muhammad,
Thank you very much for your help this far. I had done exactly what you stated and now I guess you understand better what my problem is. But where I am having issues is with the financial postings that come as a result of transferring both the travel request and the completed trip to FI.
After the travel request settlement (status: Request approved and Settled)
I did the posting run (status now: Transferred to FI and Settled) - The resulting FI document credits the vendor account and debits the travel advance account. This credit in vendor account is cancelled when I do the FI payment run for the approved advance amount.
This whole process works perfectly and I am okay with the way it works.
My major problem comes when the trip is completed, and I need to post all the travel expenses against that same approved travel request.
After the trip expenses are approved and settled I also do a transfer to FI and this is where the problem comes.
The posting run results to 2 FI documents
- the first reverses the previous posting to the vendor account (debits vendor and credits travel advance accounts)
- the second FI document credits the Accured Travel Expense account (with the total travel expense) and debits the individual travel expense items.
For the Scenario I am using for the travel advance posting - Advance via Financial Accounting - the FI documents that are created when the trip is created and transferred to FI is totally different from what is stated in the scenario.
My expectation is that a single FI document should be created which debits the particular trip expenses and credits both the travel advance and staff (vendor) account depending on whether the advance is more or less than the actual expenses. This is exactly what is depicted in the link you sent for the Advance via Financial Accounting- http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/b6/cda10f49e911d189060000e8322f96/content.htm.
My problem is that this does not work in my case and 2 FI documents are created instead of one. Please is there a way you can help me with this?
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