Payment wizard

Payment assistant

The payment assistant finds due customer and supplier items and uses them to prepare an automated payment run. Decide which payments should be made, create payment runs and generate a payment file for transmission to an online banking program.

That's what you use this page for

• The customer and supplier determine which personal accounts are taken into account.
• From/To partner limits the selection range.
• Payment date and due date control the deadline and execution.

Payment date: The payment date is transmitted to the online banking program as part of the payment file.

due date: Selection by which due date surgeries due should be suggested.

• Incoming and outgoing payments can be included separately. Payment proposals for customers and suppliers can be created at the same time, but separate payment files are created.

Since lead times for the payment date must be taken into account for SEPA direct debits, it is recommended to start the payment runs one after the other. You can decide which ones by selection OP types should be included in addition to customer or supplier invoices.

• Take discount into account applies the valid discount conditions. If the checkbox is set, OPs with a cash discount are included until the selected due date.
• This Company bank account determines which account is used to prepare the run.

Safe process

1. Select customers, suppliers and the desired partner area.
2. Set payment and due date.
3. Make conscious decisions about credits, payment directions and discounts.
4. Choose Suggest payments and check the identified positions and error messages. Delete individual items that should not be part of the payment run. Press Delete all suggestionsif you want to cancel editing.
5. Only create the payment run using the switch after the check has been completed Generate payments. At the same time, the posting of the payment run is created. Postings are created between the customer or supplier accounts and the interim account of the selected company bank account (Finance > Settings > Corporate Bank).
6. Switch using the switch payment run for file creation.

Then check

• The selection, key dates, company bank account, cash discount and each individual payment item are technically confirmed.

Related topics

• Open items
• payment run
• Bank management

Frequently asked questions