SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3706558 - Down Payment G/L missing when final invoice references Preliminary Billing Document

Symptom

When creating a final invoice with reference to a Preliminary Billing Document with a down payment line item, the down payment G/L account is not posted in Financial Accounting.

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Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Manage Preliminary Billing Documents app 
  2. Finalize the PBD and approve in the workflow 
  3. Go back to Manage Preliminary Billing Document, set the "automatically post" setting and click at "post billing document"
  4. The Down Payment G/L is missing in Financial Accounting document 

Resolution

This is known limitation in the old down payment process. To post the Down Payment line item in G/L accounting document:

  1.  Remove the setting "automatically post billing document":
  2. And post the PBD via Manage Billing Documents:

Additional Information: 

For customers located in DE and US, it's possible to follow scope item 7S7 to keep this setting ON. 

See Also

Manage Billing Documents 

Keywords

manage billing documents, PBD, billing documents, down payment, post down payment, G/L, 7S7 , KBA , SD-BIL-2CL , Billing (Public Cloud) , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions

Attachments

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