3736761 - Automatic Cash Discount for Bank Advice Clearings from camt.054 Files (Switzerland)

• Automatic posting of bank payment advices from camt.054 files with QR bill references does not behave as required.
• Payments within the cash discount period are posted to the open item without recognizing the cash discount; the remaining balance stays open.
• When creating a bank payment advice manually, the cash discount is applied automatically as expected.

SAP Business ByDesign 

1. Go to Liquidity Management work center.
2. File Management view and Inbound file sub-view.
3. Click the New button and select Inbound File from drop-down selection.
4. Contained bank payment advice XYZ over 98 CHF refers to customer invoice ABC over 100 CHF. 
5. Customer Invoice ABC shows Payment Terms as 30 days 2% cash discount.
6. Customer Invoice ABC has Payment Reference Type 'QR Bill - Switzerland'. 
7. The payment reference in Customer Invoice and Bank Payment Advice match. 

Produced automatic clearing applies 98 CHF to Customer Invoice ABC. 2 CHF show as Remaining Balance. 

Expected Result: Full clearing of Customer Invoice ABC and recognition of 2 CHF as Cash Discount (expense).

This is a definition exclusively applying to Switzerland which can be changed based on customer specific request.

In case you wish and expect an automatic cash discount acknowledgement and posting in such a scenario we kindly ask to open a case with SAP Technical Support.
We will then activate a backend-switch.

Following this cash discount, including tax correction etc. will automatically posted.

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