Summarizing Payments
You can summarize payment lines in the payment journal, which means sending only one payment line to the bank that covers multiple payments for the same vendor. This can be beneficial when the bank charges a fee per payment line.
If you activate the option to summarize payment lines on the vendor card and payment journal set up, the payment lines will be automatically summarized per vendor when suggesting payments in the payment journal. Additionally, you can manually summarize payment lines after creating them in the payment journal. For more information about managing the setup for summarizing payments, see Setup for Summarizing Payments.
Payments can be summarized if:
The functionality is activated on the vendor card and on the payment journal. See To allow for vendor payments to be summarized.
The payment information values are generic for the payments. These values include Balance Account No., Creditor No. Payment Method Code and Recipient Bank Account.
Note
You can allow payment lines to be summarized even though the given values are not generic when manually summarizing the payment lines. For more information, see To enable summarizing lines differing in value (only manual summation).
The bank supports receiving payments with long notifications. Payments using short notifications can't be summarized.
Note
If your bank charges a fee for payments with long notification, Payment Management will, in most cases, automatically send the payments with a short notification to avoid the fee. If your bank charges a fee for using a long notification method, the payments cannot be summarized in the payment journal.
Manually summarizing payments
To manually summarize payment lines in the payment journal, you can select the lines and use the Summarize payments action.
To summarize payments manually:
Select the lines you want to summarize, and on the action bar, select Prepare > Summarize Payments. This will analyze to determine any potential issues with the selected lines. If any issues are found, a page displaying a list of the identified errors will open. Once potential errors have been resolved for the selected lines, you can summarize them.
Note
You can only summarize payments if the functionality is activated on the vendor card and the payment journal. See To allow for vendor payments to be summarized.
See also
Setup for Summarizing Payments
To allow for vendor payments to be summarized
To allow summarizing lines differing in value (only manual summation)