Auto AR

The Auto AR program provides the ability to automatically accept credit card payment on open Accounts Receivables in a scheduled batch job on a recurring basis. The open items may be processed individually or as a group. The program then automatically clears open items on a customer’s account by posting an incoming payment document.

By default, the Auto AR program automatically attempts to obtain an authorization with the default card stored on a customer’s master record and, if authorization is obtained, clears the open DEBIT items that are currently on the customer’s account. Payments are posted to the same GL accounts as SD credit card payments and automatically processed by the standard SAP settlement program.

This program can be customized. Customizations are made via the Paymetric user exits (or PUEs) which are defined in the following features section. You should check with your PCMA System Administrator to see if any customizations have been made.

Features

The Auto AR Clearing program offers the following features:

  • A Paymetric user exit (PUE) which allows you to customize the filtering of customers that have open items to be processed by Auto AR.

  • A PUE that allows the billing doc as an import parameter to find credit card details for clearing open items in Auto AR.

  • A PUE that can be customized with logic to find customers with open items that can be processed by the Auto AR program.

  • Default clearing of Debit open items with default credit card on customer master record (can also choose to clear Credit open items).

  • Ability to either process sum total of all open items or each item individually.

  • Restrict processing open items with a due date within a certain number of days as specified on the selection screen.

  • Integration to standard SAP Payment Card Interface (PCI).

  • Automatic posting of payment to clear the open item(s) upon receipt of credit card authorization.

  • A posting routine PUE to that can be customized with logic to determine profit centers(e.g. from the SD billing document).

  • Reporting details: Provides links to payment documents posted or details about errors during authorization or payment posting.

  • A posting routine that allows cross company code posting to a payment card account.