Understanding the Process to Work with Payments

When you create payment groups, the system populates these temporary tables:

  • A/P Payment Control Group (F04571).

  • A/P Payment Header (F04572).

  • A/P Payment Detail (F04573).

Because the system stores the payment group information in temporary work tables, you can revise payment groups, split payments, revise value dates, and undo payment groups without affecting the Accounts Payable Matching Document (F0413) table and the Accounts Payable Matching Document Detail (F0414) table.

When you update a payment group, the system removes the payment group information from the temporary worktables and creates records in the F0413 table and the F0414 table. Therefore, you should verify that you do not need to make any further changes to the payment group before you update the group.