Creating Payment Requests Using PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface

For a detailed section on Configuration Options and Requirements for Payment Request, see Understanding Additional Payment Processing Options — Payment Request

Page Name

Definition Name

Usage

Payment Request Center Tile

PR_REQUEST_FL

Click to access the Payment Request Center and view existing payment requests or create a new payment request.

Payment Request Center Page

PR_CTR_FL

View Payment Requests, filter Payment Requests by date and status or by alternative filters, create payment requests, and answer questions.

Payment Request Review Center Tile

NA

Click to access the Payment Request Review Center and review existing payment requests.

The tile is available only for Reviewer user roles. This is an expansion of the Fluid Payment Request Requestor page for Reviewer role by converting existing classic design of Payment Request Reviewer page.

Payment Request Review Center Page

PR_CTR_FL

Review Payment Requests, filter Payment Requests by date and status or by alternative filters, and answer questions.

The page is available only for Reviewer user roles.

Filters Page

PR_CTR_FILTER_SCF

View the list of payment requests filtered either by a date range and status or by alternative filters.

Review Messages Page

PR_CONVER_SUMM_SCF

View a list of messages initiated by reviewers/approvers.

Payment Request Details Page

PR_CTR_DETAIL_FL

View the line details of a payment request.

Approval Flow Page

PR_APP_MONITOR_SCF

View the details of the approval history.

Summary Page

PR_SUMMARY_FL

Create a payment request by entering the summary information about the new request.

Attachments Page

PR_ATT_SCF

Include any attachments to the payment request.

Other Cost Page

PR_MISC_AMT_SCF

Enter miscellaneous costs to the payment request.

Supplier Page

PR_ VNDR_FL

Enter supplier details for the payment request.

New Supplier Request Page

PR_VNDR_ADD_SCF

Enter a new supplier with details of address, contact Information, and new supplier questions.

Invoice Details Page

PR_LINE_FL

Add invoice lines for the payment request.

Accounting Details Page

PR_CF_SCF

Enter accounting details to the accounting lines.

Review and Submit Page

PR_SUBMIT_FL

Review and submit the Payment Request for approval.

Use the Payment Request tile (PR_REQUEST_FL) to access the Payment Request Center and view existing payment requests or create a new payment request.

Navigation:

The Payment Request tile is delivered as part of the Employee Self Service home page, but the location can change if you change the delivered home pages or if administrators personalize their home pages.

This example illustrates the Payment Request tile.

Payment Request Center Tile

Click the Payment Request tile to access the Payment Request Center.

Use the Payment Request Review Center tile to access the Payment Request Review Center and review, edit and resubmit existing payment requests.

The Payment Request Review tile is delivered as part of the Employee Self Service home page, but the location can change if you change the delivered home pages or if administrators personalize their home pages.

This example illustrates the Payment Request Review Center tile

Payment Request Review Center Tile

Use the Payment Request Center page (PR_CTR_FL) to view Payment Requests, filter Payment Requests by date and status or by alternative filters, to create payment requests, and to answer questions.

Navigation:

Employee Self Service > Payment Request Center

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Payment Request Center page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Payment Request Center Page

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Payment Request Center page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Payment Request Center - Smartphone

Field or Control

Description

Create a new Payment Request

Click to open the Summary page and enter summary information about the new payment request. Summary page is the first among the activity guide pages while creating a payment request.

Refine Filters

Click to open the Filters page and enter filter values to display the payment requests by date and by additional filters.

Recent Messages

Click to open the Review Messages page and view a list of messages initiated by reviewers/approvers.

Personalize Icon

You can use the Personalize icon on each grid to reorder/ hide columns and sort columns by order.

For more information, see PeopleTools Applications User’s Guide, “Working With the PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface", Working with Fluid Pages and Controls.

Use the Payment Request Review Center page (PR_CTR_FL) to review/ filter payment requests, and answer questions.

The Payment Request Review Center page is available only for Reviewer roles.

The reviewer role is configurable on Payment Request Template. Business unit level security is enforced for reviewers based on User ID or Permission List security. You cannot create or copy a payment request in the Payment Request Review Center page.

Navigation:

Employee Self Service > Payment Request Review Center

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Payment Request Review Center page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later

Payment Request Review Center Page

Field or Control

Description

Refine Filters

Click to open the Filters page and enter filter values to display the payment requests by date and by additional filters.

Recent Messages

Click to open the Review Messages page and view unread messages posted by requesters. The count displayed on the Message icon indicates the number of messages yet to be responded.

Use the Filters page (PR_CTR_FILTER_SCF) to list the payment requests filtered either by a date range and status or by alternative filters.

Navigation:

Click the Refine Filters button on the Payment Request Center page.

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Filters page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Filters page - Tablet

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Filters page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Filters page - Smartphone

Field or Control

Description

Filters

Click to open the Filters page and enter filter values to display the payment requests:

  • By Date and Status: Enter the date range for which payments requests exist. By default, it is 90 days from today.

    Note: The status list is generated based on the user role. Reviewers can view Submitted, Pending, Approved, Denied (if the workflow approval option is Review before Workflow Approval on the Payment Request Template page) and Vouchered payment requests.

  • By Alternative Filters: Enter values for the alternative filters:

    1. Invoice Number

    2. Request ID

    3. Supplier Name

Note: The Filters page constitutes a mutually exclusive set of search criteria. In other words, the system allows search only based on the filter you select.

Use the Review Messages page (PR_CONVER_SUMM_SCF) to view a list of messages initiated by reviewers/approvers/requesters.

Navigation:

Click the Recent Messages icon on the Payment Request page

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Review Messages page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Review Messages page - Tablet

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Review Messages page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Review Messages page - Smartphone

Field or Control

Description

Message List

Click a message row to review the message. You can enter text in the Your Response field and click Post to post your response.

Use the Payment Request Details page (PR_CTR_DETAIL_FL) to view the line details of a particular payment request.

Note: You can customize this Payment Request Details Fluid page by using a Customization offered by PeopleSoft called Drop Zones. By using Drop Zones, you can add your own fields to Fluid pages to display or update your data. Drop Zones can be added on the top and bottom of this page. For more information on Drop Zones, See the product documentation for PeopleTools: Fluid User Interface Developer’s Guide Creating and Configuring Drop Zones.

Navigation:

Click a row on the Payment Request Center

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Payment Request Details page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Payment Request Details page - Tablet

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Payment Request Details page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Payment Request Details page - Smartphone

Copy Payment Request

The Copy functionality in an existing payment request allows Requesters to copy the payment request as a new request. The copied payment request is in New status and the date fields — Invoice Date and Entered Date and Time — are updated with current values. The requester’s name is updated in the Entered by field and all other details on the horizontal Activity Guide pages are automatically updated from the source payment request. Requesters can review and modify any option before submitting the new payment request for review and/or approval. The Save for Later button, which is available on each of the Activity Guide pages, is used to save the payment request at any time and the PR can be accessed later using the request ID that was generated upon save.

Based on user permissions the Copy button is available on all payment requests, irrespective of the status the payment request is in.

Note: Attachments are not copied when the Copy functionality is executed. You can include relevant attachments by clicking the Attachment(0) button on the Summary Page.

The options on the Payment Request Details page depend on the status of the payment request — New, Pending, Approved, Denied, and Cancelled.

Field or Control

Description

Update

Click to open the Summary page of the payment request and update the values. The Summary page is the first page in the activity guide. This button appears if the status is New, Denied, Pending or Submitted.

Message

Click to open the Review Messages page and view any messages from an approver. This button appears only if there is a message for this Payment Request.

Approval History

Click to open the Approval Flow Page and view the details of approval history. This button appears if the status is Pending, Approved, or Denied.

Cancel

Click to cancel the payment request. The payment request status changes to Cancelled. This button appears if the payment request status is New or Denied.

Copy

Click to copy the payment request into a new payment request. The system opens the Activity Guide pages of a new PR, with details copied into the respective pages. You can review all the Activity Guide pages, modify options, add an attachment, and finally submit the payment request for review and/or approval. See Summary Page .

More

Click to view the remaining option, Approval History and Cancel.

Use the Approval Flow page (PR_APP_MONITOR_SCF) to view the details of the approval history if the payment request status is Pending, Approved, or Denied.

Navigation:

Click the Approval History button on the Payment Request Details page

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Approval Flow page.

Approval Flow page - Tablet

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Approval Flow page.

Approval Flow page - Smartphone

Use the Summary page (PR_SUMMARY_FL) to enter the summary details and to include any attachments for the payment request you wish to create.

Note: You can customize this Summary Fluid page by using a Customization offered by PeopleSoft called Drop Zones. By using Drop Zones, you can add your own fields to Fluid pages to display or update your data. Drop Zones can be added on the top and bottom of this page. For more information on Drop Zones, See the product documentation for PeopleTools: Fluid User Interface Developer’s Guide Creating and Configuring Drop Zones.

Navigation:

Employee Self Service > Payment Request Center > Create a new Payment Request

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Summary page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Summary page - Tablet

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Summary page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Summary page - Smartphone

Field or Control

Description

Instructions

Click to open the Instructions page and view any instructions about entering summary details, which were set up on the Payment Request Template page. This icon appears only if there are instructions entered in the Instructions section on the Payment Request Template page.

Attachments

Click the button to open the Attachments Page and include any attachments to the payment request.

See Installation Options - Multiple Attachments Page to define the maximum attachment upload limit for various products.

Use the Attachments page (PR_ATT_SCF) to include any attachments to the payment request.

Navigation:

Click the Attachment(0) link on the Summary page. Click the Add Attachment button.

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Attachments page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Attachments page - Tablet

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Attachments page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Attachments page - Smartphone

Field or Control

Description

Add Attachment

Click to open the File Attachment page. Click the My Device button to choose a file source, select the file and click Upload. Click Done to return to the Attachments page.

Note: This button appears only when there are no attachments (0) included earlier.

Add

Click to include additional an attachment. This button appears only if there are existing attachments included earlier in the payment request.

Edit

Click to open the Attachment Details page, select the attachment row and click Delete button to delete the attachment.

Use the Other Cost page (PR_MISC_AMT_SCF) to enter miscellaneous costs to the payment request. Miscellaneous costs include Miscellaneous Charge Amount, Freight Amount, and Tax amount.

Navigation:

Click the Other Cost button on the Summary page.

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Other Cost page.

Other Cost Page - Tablet

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Other Cost page.

Other Cost Page - Smartphone

Use the Supplier page (PR_ VNDR_FL) to enter supplier details for the payment request.

Note: You can customize this Supplier Fluid page by using a Customization offered by PeopleSoft called Drop Zones. By using Drop Zones, you can add your own fields to Fluid pages to display or update your data. Drop Zones can be added on the top and bottom of this page. For more information on Drop Zones, See the product documentation for PeopleTools: Fluid User Interface Developer’s Guide Creating and Configuring Drop Zones.

Navigation:

Click the Next button on the Summary page.

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Supplier page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Supplier page

Field or Control

Description

Instructions

Click to open the Instructions page and view any instructions about entering supplier details, which were set up on the Payment Request Template page. This icon appears only if there are instructions entered in the Instructions section on the Payment Request Template Page.

Address

If a supplier is present in multiple locations, the Address field shows as *Multiple Locations*. Click the address link to open the Select Supplier Location page and select the desired location from the list. On a smartphone, you can click the ‘>’ button to open the Select Supplier Location page.

Enter New Supplier

Click to open the New Supplier Request page and enter the details of a new supplier. This button appears only after you select the Search button.

Download to Excel Search Results

Select to download the search results to Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

Find Search Results

Select to find a string in the current page.

Sort Search Results

Select to sort the data within the Search Results grid.

After you select a Supplier, the supplier information and payment address displays.

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Supplier Payment Request page as displayed on a tablet. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Supplier Payment Request page as displayed on a tablet

Field or Control

Description

Edit Address icon

Select to access the Select Payment Address page to choose a payment address.

Use the New Supplier Request page (PR_VNDR_ADD_SCF) to enter a new supplier with details of address, contact Information, and new supplier questions. The Request New Supplier button appears only after you click the Search button. A new supplier can be requested only if existing suppliers are not preferred.

Navigation:

Click the Enter New Supplier button on the Supplier page.

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the New Supplier Request (1 of 2) page.

New Supplier Request (1 of 2)

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the New Supplier Request (2 of 2) page.

New Supplier Request (2 of 2)

Field or Control

Description

Enter a Single Payment Supplier

Select to enter a single payment supplier. Currently, only Check payment method is supported for single payment suppliers.

Use the Invoice Details page (PR_LINE_FL) to add invoice lines.

Note: You can customize this Invoice Details Fluid page by using a Customization offered by PeopleSoft called Drop Zones. By using Drop Zones, you can add your own fields to Fluid pages to display or update your data. Drop Zones can be added on the top and bottom of this page. For more information on Drop Zones, See the product documentation for PeopleTools: Fluid User Interface Developer’s Guide Creating and Configuring Drop Zones.

Navigation:

Click the Next button on the Supplier page. Click the Add Lines button to add an invoice line for the Payment Request.

In the desktop interface, clicking the Add Lines button allows you to enter the new line details on the Invoice Details page itself.

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Invoice Details page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Invoice Details page

Field or Control

Description

Add

Click to insert an additional line and enter the details.

Edit

Click the button and select invoice lines to delete. Click Delete.

Accounting Tag

Select the desired accounting tag from the Accounting Tag - Accounting Tag List Page.

See Selecting Accounting Tags in PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface

Accounting Details

Click the button to open the Accounting Details Page and enter the desired accounting details to the accounting lines.

Use the Accounting Details page (PR_CF_SCF) to enter accounting details to the accounting lines.

Navigation:

Click the Accounting Details button on the Invoice Details page.

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Accounting Details page.

Accounting Details page - Tablet

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Accounting Details page.

Accounting Details page - Smartphone

Use the Review and Submit page (PR_SUBMIT_FL) to review and submit the Payment Request for approval.

Note: You can customize this Review and Submit Fluid page by using a Customization offered by PeopleSoft called Drop Zones. By using Drop Zones, you can add your own fields to Fluid pages to display or update your data. Drop Zones can be added on the top and bottom of this page. For more information on Drop Zones, See the product documentation for PeopleTools: Fluid User Interface Developer’s Guide Creating and Configuring Drop Zones.

Navigation:

Click the Next button on the Invoice Details page.

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Review and Submit page.

Review and Submit page

Note: Duplicate invoice check is done for all payment requests before submission, review and approval. You can proceed with payment request creation or reject the request based on the setup done at the business unit level. For additional information, see Defining PeopleSoft Payables Business Unit Options by SetID

Payment Handling, Separate Payment and Payment Message fields are displayed based on the options selected on Payment Request Template Page. The options available for Payment Handling are the following: High Dollar Payment, Internal Distribution, Regular Payments and Route to Purchasing.

Email Notification

After a requester submits a payment request, if the workflow option is Review before Workflow Approval or AP Review - No Workflow Engine on the Payment Request Template, an email notification is sent to the reviewers with a link to the Fluid Payment Request page for reviewer. After the reviewer resubmits a payment request for workflow option Review before Workflow Approval, the Approval Workflow Engine sends an email notification to approvers with a link to the Fluid Payment Request Approval page.

When a requester submits a payment request, if the workflow option is Workflow Approval on the Payment Request Template, the Approval Workflow Engine sends an email notification to approvers with a link to the Fluid Payment Request Approval page.

If an approver denies the payment request or provides final approval of the payment request, the Approval Workflow Engine sends an email notification to requester with a link to the Fluid Payment Request Page for requester.

When a reviewer post a message to the requester, an email notification is send to the requester. The URL generated on email notification will point to the Fluid Payment Request page for requester. Similarly, when requester post a response to the reviewer, an email notification is send to the reviewer with a link to the Fluid Payment Request Page for reviewer.