Understanding Legal Document Types

You set up legal document types to specify how the system handles taxes for a type of document, whether the system must print the document on one page, and whether multiple payment terms are allowed for a document. You use the Legal Document Types program (P7400002) to associate the legal document types that you create with the legal document type groups that exist in the Legal Document Type Group (74/DG) UDC table.

When you create legal document types, you assign a legal document type group to each document type by selecting a value from the Legal Document Type Group UDC table.

Set up legal document types for:

• Standard invoices

• Prepayment invoices

• Value-added tax (VAT)

• Invoices

• Credit and debit notes

The system stores the legal document types that you create in the Legal Document Types table (F7400002).