Use this function to settle open items for BPs that are customers, suppliers, or both. Open items that are available for settlement include invoices, unapplied prepayments, credit memos, and debit memos for customers and suppliers.

There are options for applying the netting amount to records when several open items are selected.

  • The first option is to select all the items and click the Apply button to have the system automatically apply the netting amount to the open items. This is usually the case when netting supplier records against customer records. The system uses the oldest to newest due dates to apply the open items to one another. Any remaining balance will be left on the newest invoice(s).
  • The second option is to manually select the items. After selecting the items, a user can either:
    • Click the Apply button to have the system automatically apply the netting amount to the open items. The system uses the oldest to newest due date to apply the open items to one another. Any remaining balance will be left on the newest invoices.
    • Manually adjust the netting amount to apply all or some of the amount. Once the net balance equals to zero, the transaction can be posted.

Prerequisites

See also Refer to documentation Implementation

Screen management

Entry screen

Detail grid

The open item results grid allows you to select the open items and the amount of the open item to net (if different from the total open amount). A Selection total frame is also available to track amounts that have been selected for settlement.

The open items will appear based on the selection criteria order specified. If there are open items with duplicate sort criterion values (for example, mutiple items with same due date, source date, or transaction type), the secondary sort will be the combination of the internal number and due date number.

Clicking Apply runs the automatic calculation logic and will calculate the net result of the marked open items. The netting result is calculated for each item selected.

Note A maximum of 501 rows of date will display on the grid.

Warning Changes to edits are lost when clicking Apply after modifying the netting amount.

Settlement scenarios:

When the netting result is a payable or receivable balance:

  • A journal entry will be generated to clear the netting amount. The journal will contain one line for each open item included in the transaction.
  • A net amount is left on most recent existing open item(s).
BP Customer and BP Supplier (Select all example)

Business partner has two supplier invoices for $1000 and $300, an unapplied supplier memo for $400, a customer invoice for $1500, an unapplied customer memo for $500, and an unapplied prepayment for $200. User selects all open items by clicking Select all. The result would be a net credit balance of $100.

  • If all open items are selected, the result after clicking Apply is a balance of $100. Based on the premise that the document(s) with the latest due dates will remain open, customer memo CSCM00005 will remain open with a balance of $100.

Select

Type

Document no.

Due date

Open amount

Netting amount

Remaining amount

X

CSINV

CSINV000024

3/31/2013

1500

1500

0

X

PREPY

PRE000011

3/31/2013

-200

-200

0

X

CSCM

CSCM00005

4/15/2013

-500

-400

-100

X

SPINV

SPINV000123

3/15/2013

-1000

-1000

0

X

SPINV

SPINV000125

3/31/2013

-300

-300

0

X

SPMEM

SPMEM000026

4/15/2013

400

400

0

BP Customer only (Manual selection example)

Customer has several invoices for $100, and an unapplied customer memo for $-100.

  • A user manually selects customer credit memo CSCM00005, and applies $20 of the credit memo to each of the following customer invoices (CSINV000024, CSINV000025, CSINV000026, CSINV000027, and CSINV000028) by editing the netting amount of each application. Because the manually selected records resulted in a net balance of zero, they will go directly to post without having the system apply the calculation to determine where the balance remains. After posting, the result will have the following:

      • A balance of $80 on the five invoices
      • A zero balance on the credit memo

Select 

Type

Document no.

Due date

Open amount

Netting amount

Remaining amount

X

CSINV 

CSINV00024 

3/31/2013 

100

20

80

X

CSINV

CSINV00025 

4/07/2013

100

20

80

X

CSINV

CSINV00026 

4/14/2013

100

20

80

X

CSINV

CSINV00027 

4/21/2013

100

20

80

X

CSINV

CSINV00028 

4/28/2013

100

20

80

CSINV

CSINV00029 

4/28/2013

100

0

100

CSINV 

CSINV00030 

4/28/2013

100

0

100

CSINV

CSINV00031

4/28/2013

100

0

100

X

CSCM

CSCM00005

4/15/2013

-100

-100

0

BP Supplier only (Manual selection example)

Supplier has two invoices for $1,000  and $900, and two unapplied supplier memos for $500 and $800.

  • If a user manually selects supplier memo SPMEM000024 and supplier invoice SPINV000125, then modifies the netting amount on SPINV000125 to $-800, this will result in a net balance of $0. Because the manually selected records resulted in a net balance of zero, they will go directly to post without having the system apply the calculation to determine where the balance remains. After posting, the result will have the following: 
    • No change to SPINV000123 and SPMEM000026
    • A remaining balance of $-100 on SPINV000125
    • A zero balance on SPMEM000024

Select 

Type

Document no.

Due date

Open amount

Netting amount

Remaining amount

SPINV 

SPINV000123 

3/15/2013

-1000

0

-1000

X 

SPINV

SPINV000125 

3/31/2013

-900

-800

-100

SPMEM

SPMEM000024

3/31/2013

800

800

0

SPMEM 

SPMEM000026 

4/15/2013 

500

0

500

Specific Buttons

Apply

Click Apply to calculate the net result of the selected open items when the net balance of the transaction is not equal to zero. The netted items will move to the top of the grid. This option is disabled until at least one open item is selected and when the net balance of all selected records is zero.

Clicking Apply overrides the netting amounts entered manually.

Search

Click Search to process the selection criteria in order to display the open item results. After the search is initially done, the option is disabled.

Post

Click Post to generate the settlement transaction. This option is disabled if the net balance is not zero.

Error messages

The only error messages are the generic ones.

Tables used

See also Refer to documentation Implementation