3783850 - Custom payment term description not shown in app F0859 (Supplier Invoice) on SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

 Select a custom (manually created) payment term in app F0859 (Create/Manage Supplier Invoice), no description is displayed for the payment term.

• The payment term description field is blank in app F0859 after selecting the custom payment term.
• The affected payment terms are configured for the Supplier account type only in SSCUI 102934 (Maintain Terms of Payment).
• The standard Explanation section is correctly maintained in SSCUI 102934, yet the description remains invisible in the app.
• The Own Explanation field in SSCUI 102934 is intentionally left blank - the expectation is that the system-generated automatic translation is used instead.
• Standard SAP-delivered payment terms display their descriptions correctly in app F0859.
• The behaviour is reproducible for all custom payment terms configured exclusively for the Supplier account type.

 SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

1. Log in to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.
2. Open the Configure Your Solution app and navigate to Finance → Accounts Payable → Maintain Terms of Payment (SSCUI 102934).
3. Create a custom payment term and assign the Supplier account type only. Do not enable the Customer account type. Do not maintain the Own Explanation field. Enter the desired description in the standard Explanation section.
4. Save and publish the payment term configuration.
5. Open app F0859 (Create/Manage Supplier Invoice) and create or open a supplier invoice.
6. In the payment term field, select the custom payment term created in step 3.
7. Observe that no description text is displayed alongside the payment term code.

App F0859 reads the payment term description from the Sales Text field, which is stored in database table TVZBT. The Sales Text field can only be maintained when the payment term has the Customer account type enabled in SSCUI 102934 (Maintain Terms of Payment).

For payment terms configured exclusively for the Supplier account type, the system correctly blocks entry of the Sales Text field and issues message FC086 ("Only specify sales text for payment terms for customers") if entry is attempted. As a result, table TVZBT contains no entry for these payment terms, and app F0859 displays a blank description — even when the standard Explanation section in SSCUI 102934 is correctly maintained.

Standard SAP-delivered payment terms are not affected because their text entries are pre-seeded in table TVZBT. This is expected system behaviour.

Required authorization: The steps below require access to the Configure Your Solution app and an active Business Configuration Change Project.

To display a description for a custom payment term in app F0859, the `Own Explanation` field must be populated for each affected payment term in SSCUI `102934` (Maintain Terms of Payment). The value entered in this field is used as the payment term description in the app.

1. Open the Configure Your Solution app and ensure an active Business Configuration Change Project is open.
2. Navigate to Finance → Accounts Payable → Maintain Terms of Payment, or search for SSCUI ID 102934.
3. Open the affected custom payment term.
4. Locate the Own Explanation field and enter the desired description text.
5. Save and publish the change.
6. Open app F0859 and verify that the description is now visible when the payment term is selected.

Known limitation — manual entry per language

Maintaining the `Own Explanation` field requires a separate entry per logon language. This means the automatic translation functionality provided by the system for the standard `Explanation` section is not applied to the `Own Explanation` field. If automatic multi-language translation for supplier-only custom payment terms is required, this behaviour should be submitted as a product enhancement request via the SAP Customer Influence Forum.

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