Create Balance Notification
Application component: Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
App type: SAP GUI
Description:  You create periodic correspondence for periodically recurring business transactions for a number of business partners. 
Key features: You can use the following correspondence types in Contract Accounts Payable and Receivable: Correspondence Type Use Procedure Returns (0001) If a bank return arises from a debit or collection procedure, a check deposit, or a payment, you can send the customer a returns notification and/or a payment form. If a returns lot was successfully posted, the system can create returns notifications and payment forms automatically. You can define event 0295 to do this. For more information, see Printing Returns Notices. Account statement (0002) Account statements show a customer's receivables and payables and are created periodically. For more information, see Account Statement. Dunning (0003) You use dunning notices to remind business partners that their payables are overdue and to request payment. In Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, the dunning proposal run determines which dunning level is assigned to an overdue item. You can assign specific dunning activities, such as creating dunning notices, to individual dunning levels in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Business Transactions  Dunning  Configure Dunning Activities. The dunning activity run then triggers the dunning activity, for example, printing a dunning notice. For more information, see Dunning. Payment advice note (0006) In Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, payment advice notes are covering letters for outgoing payments. They are entered when the note to payee text exceeds the length of the Note to Payee field. They are therefore a supplement to the note to payee. Payment advice notes are created automatically by the payment media run. Payment form for installment plan (0008) If you have agreed on installment payments with a customer, you can send him payment forms for the individual installments. In Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Business Transactions  Deferral and Installment Plans   Define Default Values for Installment Plan, you can determine whether and at what stage payment forms are created. You can:Send the payment forms with the notification Send only the first payment form with the notification and send all other payment forms separately Send the payment forms separately from the notificationIf you do not create the payment forms with the notification, you can use the transaction Print Installment Plan to trigger the creation of payment forms for your business partners periodically. (See also Functions for Scheduling Program Runs).  Check (0015) You use the check correspondence type for the mass creation of checks if, for example, you want to make payments of credits to your customers as part of a final invoicing. Mass check printing is triggered automatically by the payment run for outgoing payments that have payment method and payment format Check. Payment notification (0019) You can use payment notifications to confirm incoming payments and to request information about the payment from the customer. The system creates payment notifications automatically:For underpayments, that is, when posting a payment results in partial clearing For overpayments, that is, if the payment is posted on account to a contract accountYou can also trigger a payment notification online in an incoming payment clarification when you post a payment. In the transaction Post Document, choose Extras  Payment Notice. This places the correspondence in the print dataset of the mass printing activity.  Correspondence dunning notice (0020) You can use correspondence dunning notices to request specific correspondence such as tax statements or broker reports. You can also use correspondence type 0020 for dunning inbound correspondence so that you can send your customer a reminder before the correspondence is actually due. These reminders are realized as an optional dunning level. You can dun inbound correspondence that is entered in the correspondence history and that does not have a date of receipt. The correspondence dunning run first selects all inbound correspondence with an initial date of receipt that fulfills the selection criteria of the General Selections. The following events are then processed:742:Master data check for dunning locks and determination of the dunning procedure 743:Correspondence check for due date for dunning 744:Determination of dunning level 745:Determination and posting of dunning charges 746:Execution of dunning activities If you want to create reminders, select Correspondence Dunning Run Type Reminder or Dunning Notice and Reminder on the Mode tab page in the correspondence dunning run. If you do not make any specifications, only dunning notices are created. If the parameter Correspondence Dunning Run Type is not visible in your installation, you have to add the group box 3007 (selection of correspondence dunning run type) to layout 0020 (correspondence dunning) of tab 02 (Mode) in Customizing (see Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Technical Settings  Define Layouts for Mass Activities). Reminder before expiry of tax exemption (0023) Using the transaction Monitor Tax Exemption, you can monitor the validity of tax exemptions. If the key date for the expiry of an exemption has been reached, the program creates a correspondence for each contract account checked; in this correspondence you ask the exempt business partner about the status of the exemption and you can request a new certificate. The program run creates an entry in the correspondence container. In the SAP menu, choose Periodic Processing  For Contract Accounts  Correspondence  Monitor Tax Exemptions. Enter a date and an ID that you can use to identify the run later. On the General Selections tab, restrict the contract accounts to be checked. On the Additional Parameters tab, you can also restrict the selection by tax code, condition type, and the key date on which the exemption expires. If you set the Repetition for indicator, and specify the ID and run date of a run that has already taken place, you can repeat the check for the tax exemptions processed in this run. On the Periods tab, you define which correspondence is created. The system only creates the correspondence defined for the period specified. Schedule the program run. (See also Functions for Scheduling Program Runs).  Contract account balance notification (0026) A balance notification contains the account balance of a business partner. The balance is created on the basis of open items. Balance notifications are useful, for example, if:Auditors want to inform a sample number of customers about the current status of their customer accounts You want to inform customers about their current balance once in each period (legal requirement in some countries) You want to inform customers about the amount of outstanding receivables before and after the currency conversion to the euroIn event 9552, you can decide whether a balance notification is to be created (see the documentation for the sample function module FKK_SAMPLE_9552).Note for the industry component InsuranceFor insurance objects, you can also use the correspondence type Balance Notification Insurance Relationship.  In the SAP menu, choose Periodic Processing  For Contract Accounts  Correspondence  Create Balance Notification. On the General Selections tab, restrict the contract accounts. There you can use preselections for business partners (see Defining Preselections for Master Data). If you specify a preselection according to the random principle, you can send balance notifications to a random selection of your customers. When you create a balance notification according to this preselection, you can deactivate the correspondence variant test. This means that you do not have to enter a variant with correspondence type 0026 for the accounts. You can restrict the selection further under Additional Account Selections. Under Run Parameter, you can also select one of the following confirmation procedures:Balance notification (negative inquiry) Balance request (open method, request procedure) Balance confirmation (positive inquiry) See the documentation for the fields. On the Date and Periods tab, enter a key date for the selection. If you want items that you have already informed your customers about to be listed separately from newly posted items in balance notifications, enter the corresponding Key Date for New Items. Schedule the program run (see also Functions for Scheduling Program Runs).You can use the following events for balance notifications:1907: Creation of balance notification 1908: Print balance notification 1909: Interval module for creating balance notifications 1910: Changing parameters for balance notifications See the documentation for the sample function modules.SAP provides the application form FI_CA_BALANOTE_SAMPLE. Normally, you should use the application form FI_CA_BALANOTE_SAMPLE_SF.You can postprocess the data saved in the system for the balance notifications created (see the SAP menu under Periodic Processing  For Contract Accounts  Correspondence  Postprocess Balance Notification). For example, you can indicate there whether a reply has been received, or determine the balance confirmations that have led to no response.  Business partner statement (0029) A business partner statement contains all the open items for a business partner. The balance is created on the basis of open items. Business partner statements are useful, for example, if:There are several contract accounts for one business partner and you want to inform the customer of the status of the customer relationship using only one letter. There are several contracts for one business partner and you want to inform the customer of the status of the customer relationship using only one letter.  In SAP menu, choose Periodic Processing  For Contract Accounts  Correspondence  Create Business Partner Statements. (See also Functions for Scheduling Program Runs). You can use the following events for business partner statements:702: Create statement 703: Print statement 1911: Interval module for creating business partner statements 1701: Move parameters 1913: Determine relevant parameters for correspondence control See the documentation for the sample function modules. Notification of bills, credit memos (0031) In SAP Biller Direct , you can inform your customers about new bills or credit memos by SMS or e-mail. You can only use this correspondence type if you use SAP Biller Direct. Write-off notification (0034) In a write-off notification, you can inform customers that you are waiving certain receivables or parts of receivables. Once you have written off items in the transaction Write Off Items or in the Write-Off Run, you can create a write-off notification. In the SAP menu, choose Periodic Processing  For Contract Accounts  Generate Write-Off Notification. Assign a date ID and an identification that you can use to identify the run later. On the General Selections and Additional Selections tabs, restrict the write-offs to be selected. Schedule the program run. (See also Functions for Scheduling Program Runs).The program first creates entries for the write-offs in the correspondence container. They are printed separately in correspondence printing. The correspondence is created in event 1917 and printed in event 1918. The form class is FI_CA_WRITEOFF; the application form example is FI_CA_WRITEOFF_SAMPLE.  Invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (0042) The invoicing documents created in Invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable are sent to customers as invoices. Once an invoicing document has been successfully posted, the system can create an invoice. The events 2685 and 2686 are defined for this in the standard system. For more information, see Invoice Printing in the documentation for invoicing. Promise to pay (0045 ) You can send correspondence to the business partner when a promise to pay is created and in the case where a promise to pay is not fulfilled. See the section on creating correspondence for promises to pay. SEPA mandate (0047) When displaying a SEPA mandate, you can create a correspondence request by choosing .After a bank is changed or a new bank is created, you can have the system automatically create a correspondence request for the automatically changed or created SEPA mandate. You make the settings for the automatic print request in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Business Transactions  Payments  Incoming/Outgoing Payment Creation  Management of SEPA Mandates  Enter General Specifications.SAP provides the application form examples FI_CA_MANDATE_SAMPLE_SF and FI_CA_MANDATE_SAMPLE_PDF.In both cases, this sets up the correspondence in the print dataset of the mass printing activity. SEPA direct debit pre-notification (0048) For your SEPA direct debit procedure, if you choose to pre-notify customers of receivables using a pre-notification run rather than during invoice creation, the system creates a correspondence request with correspondence type 0048 for each direct debit pre-notification. SAP provides the application form examples FI_CA_PRENOT_SAMPLE_SF and FI_CA_PRENOT_SAMPLE_PDF. Contract confirmation (provider contract) (0050) When you conclude new contracts, you can send a contract confirmation to business partners. If a provider contract was created successfully in the S/4HANA system and you have defined a template for correspondence type 0050, the system updates a trigger. You output the correspondence with the correspondence print run.SAP delivers the sample form FI_CA_VT_CONFIRM_SAMPLE_PDF .Note If you use Convergent Invoicing and a billing plan exists for a provider contract, details of the billing plan are also included in the correspondence. Dunning telephone list (3003) Using correspondence type 3003, you can use the correspondence recipient control to enter an alternative business partner in the telephone list created in the dunning activity run. Define events 9010, 9012, and 9013. SAP provides function module FKK_CALLLIST_CRM_9010 as an example.  
Business roles: Administrator - Accounts Payable and Receivable (FI-CA)| Accounts Payable and Receivable Accountant (FI-CA)
Administrator - Accounts Payable and Receivable (FI-CA): (is an add-on role to the Administrator)
Is responsible for the planning, scheduling and execution of jobs and mass activities within FI-CA, including critical Business processes, such as payment run, payment lot, dunning run. 

Accounts Payable and Receivable Accountant (FI-CA) : 
Deals with payment and credit clarification of B2B and B2C customers and works off complex customer requests according account clarification.