Payment Justification for SPS Federal Payments

Capture payment justification during invoice creation to be reported to the Secure Payment System, or SPS. The payment justification identifies the purpose of the payment issuance. For invoices created from purchase orders, the procurement instrument identifier, or PIID, is used for payment justification.

For direct invoices or invoices created from purchase orders that don't have a PIID defined, Federal agencies are required to enter the payment justification on the invoice header. SPS check and ACH payments classified as 'Vendor' or 'Miscellaneous' and Same Day Pay FedWire payments must include a payment justification to identify the purpose of the payment issuance.

Payment Justification on Invoice Header

Business Benefit:

Provides federal agencies the ability to meet the U.S. Department of the Treasury's requirement to report payment justifications for Secure Payment System check and ACH payments that are classified as "Vendor" or "Miscellaneous" as well as all Same Day Pay Fedwire payments.

Steps to Enable

The following needs to be enabled:

• U.S. Federal Financials must be enabled.
• U.S. Federal Payments must be enabled.
• General Ledger must be defined as U.S. Federal.

Key Resources

• For more information, refer to the Implementing U.S. Federal Financials and Using U.S. Federal Financials guides.
• Based on Idea 855183 from the Payables, Payments & Cash Lab on Oracle Cloud Customer Connect.

Access Requirements

To use this feature, you need the following job roles:

• Financial Application Administrator
• Accounts Payable Manager
• Accounts Payable Specialist
• Accounts Payable Supervisor