3747973 - Error Payment Reference is Incorrect for &

When creating supplier invoices or free form payment, the system raises the error message: "Payment reference is incorrect for &".

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

A country-specific payment reference validation for Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark is active with a hard check; the entered payment reference fails the check due to invalid length, characters, or check digit.

If free use of the payment reference is required for these countries, the error message can be configured as a warning. 

1. Open the configuration "Change Message Control - Payments" (SSCUI ID: 106990).
2. For the application area, select F0 (FI batch program messages).
3. Create or adjust an entry for message number 468/493/494/495/497 and set W to change the error to a warning.

468    Payment reference &2 is incorrect for Sweden
493    Payment reference &2 is incorrect for Estonia
494    Payment reference &2 is incorrect for Finland
495    Payment reference &2 is incorrect for Norway
497    Payment reference &2 is not correct for country Denmark

SAP Note 2030508 - Check of payment reference (KIDNO)

Payment Reference, F0468, Supplier Invoice Creation, Message Control Payments, 106990, FI batch Program Messages, Warning, Incorrect  , KBA , FI-AP-AP-B1 , Payment transfer (w/o DE, US) , Problem