Set Up Bill Management

Using Oracle Fusion Bill Management, you can set up bill management to enable the various bills receivables processes such as reviewing outstanding transactions, credit memos, monitoring disputes, and making online payments.

After you configure bill management you can define the system options to register the external users, customer accounts, and process various payment options.

Here's how you can set up bill management:

  1. Enable bill management using the standard lookups.

  2. Provide data access to the internal users.

  3. Manage system options to enable preferences.

After you complete the set-up, these are the key features enabled for the users:

  • Analyze open and closed transactions

  • Download transactions

  • Monitor disputes

  • Process payments options

Provide Data Access to Internal Users

Assign a job role to the users. You can provide the users the permission to access data and transactions belonging to a business unit.

Here are the steps to provide data access to the internal users:

  1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, select the Offering as Financials, Functional Area as Users and Security, and Task as Manage Data Access for Users.

  2. On the Manage Data Access for Users page, select the user name, role, security context and security context value, to create the data access for the user.

  3. Save the changes.

Manage System Options

You can use the system options to set up external user role assignments, transaction and payment processing conditions, enable preferences, and setup email notifications for the external users.

Here's how you can manage bill management system options for the external users:

  1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, select the Offering as Financials, Functional Area as Bill Management, and Task as Manage Bill Management System Options.

  2. In the Registration section, select Customer Accounts Payable Specialist to assign the role for external user.

  3. In the Transaction and Payment Processing section, select transactions history in months, aging method, and maximum future payment days allowed.

  4. In the Preferences section, set up the required preferences. Here's the list of preference items that you can configure for each Business Unit:

    • Bank Payment: Restrict or allow payment through bank.

    • Credit Card Payment: Restrict or allow payment through credit card.

      Note: redit card processing is currently available only in the Oracle data centers where Oracle Payments is certified by the latest PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS v3.2.1).
    • Credit Card Payment Limit: Restrict payments based on credit card limit value. If the limit is less than total payment amount, it restricts the payment.

    • Ledger Currency Only: Restrict or allow payment using ledger currency only.

    • Print Invoice: Restrict or allow to print the invoice.

  5. In the Notifications section, configure the email notifications for the user registration process. Select All for Business Unit and enter the required email addresses.

  6. Save the changes.