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3740409 - Error FC086 "Only specify sales text for payment terms for customers" occurs when maintaining Sales Text for payment terms - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Symptom

Error FC086 "Only specify sales text for payment terms for customers" occurs when maintaining Sales Text for payment terms with account type supplier in configuration activity 102934 - Maintain Terms of Payment.

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Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.

Reproducing the Issue

  1. In configuration activity 102934 - Maintain Terms of Payment, maintain Sales Text for a payment term with supplier account type.
  2. Observe that error FC086 "Only specify sales text for payment terms for customers" occurs.

Cause

This is standard system behavior. The sales text are designated for payment terms with customer account type only.

Resolution

1. Maintain the customer account type for the corresponding payment term first, then enter the sales text value.

2. In case of supplier account type only, utilize Own Explanation instead. The value entered in Own Explanation field will appear as Payment Term Explanation in other applications.

Keywords

payment terms, purchasing contract, sscui 102934, supplier account type, sales text, own explanation, payment term explanation, FC086. , KBA , FI-AR-AR-2CL , Basic Functions (Public Cloud) , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions