Understanding the PeopleSoft Payables Payment Interface

As delivered, the Payment Interface feature supports these payments:

• PeopleSoft Payables vouchers.

• PeopleSoft Expenses expense sheet and cash advance payments.

• PeopleSoft Treasury settlement payments.

In addition, the Payment Interface feature enables you to produce payments from other sources (either PeopleSoft applications or third-party products). By using the Payment Interface feature to make payments from other sources, you can ensure consistent processing of all payments. You can also take advantage of the Pay Cycle Manager component (PYCYCL_MGR) in PeopleSoft Payables, which enables you to view all payments in one place, regardless of the source system of the transaction.

To process payments, PeopleSoft Payables needs certain information—for example, the recipient and the date of the payment. The PeopleSoft system must also indicate whether a payment has been made and, if so, how much was paid. You enable the system to do this by creating a mapping definition that maps the data between the source system of the transaction and PeopleSoft Payables.

For all source definitions that come with the PeopleSoft system, the necessary mapping has already been performed to support the required system functions. When you create new mapping definitions, you map the fields in a staging table to the corresponding fields in the PeopleSoft Payables PS_PYCYCL_DATA table using the Pay Cycle Mapping - Mapping Detail page.