Understanding the Automatic Payment Process

Note: Country-specific information for automatic payments exists for Brazil, Argentina, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Germany, Japan, Norway, Peru, Russia, and Sweden.
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You use automatic payments to group vouchers and produce multiple payments in a single payment run.

Automatic payment processing enables you to manage your payments efficiently and take advantage of favorable discount terms whenever possible. Use automatic payment processing to pay vouchers during your usual payment cycle.

This graphic shows the process for automatic payment processing:

Automatic payment process

During automatic payment processing, the system works with these document and batch types:

Field

Value

Voucher document type

  • PV (voucher)

  • PR (recurring voucher)

  • PL (voucher logging)

  • PD (debit memo)

  • PM (voucher without match)

  • xx (user-defined voucher type)

Payment document type

PK (automatic payment)

Batch type

K (automatic payment)

This graphic shows the programs you use to process payments:

Programs used to process payments