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3607562 - Payment Method "Cash" Cannot Be Selected While Paying Supplier Invoice in the Supplier Account Monitor

Symptom

  • The option to make a payment to a supplier against their invoice using cash is not available.
  • The error "cash is not a valid value for this field. Enter a valid value." occurs when trying to add the payment method Cash while trying to pay the invoice using the option Pay Manually By > Other Payment Methods.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Payables work center.
  2. Go to the Supplier Accounts view.
  3. Search for the respective supplier account and select view.
  4. Select the open supplier invoice and choose Pay Manually By > Other Payment Methods.
  5. When the payment method "Cash" is selected, the error "cash is not a valid value for this field. Enter a valid value." appears.

Cause

The error occurs because the system expects only the payment methods Outgoing Check, Outgoing Bank Transfer or Wire Transfer as a valid value while trying to maintain payment method as Cash in the New Payment screen.

Resolution

At times, payment for goods or services is required to be made in cash and it can be done as follows:

  1. Go to the Payment Management work center.
  2. Go to the Petty Cash view.
  3. Select New > Outgoing Cash Payment - Reference to Items.
  4. Enter the relevant supplier in the Payee field.
  5. The open items are then displayed in the Open Items table. Open items to be paid can be selected by setting the Matched indicator next to the desired entries.
  6. Choose Post.
  7. Now, the supplier invoice is cleared with this outgoing cash payment, and the status of the invoice will change to 'Paid'.

See Also

Create an Outgoing Cash Payment | SAP Help Portal

Keywords

Supplier payments, Payment Method, cash payment, cash is not a valid value. , KBA , SRD-FIN-ACP , Payables , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions