Use the Generate Balance Forward Bill program to generate and print balance forward bills. The Generate Balance Forward Bill program includes on balance forward bills the transactions that meet its entered parameters, and calls the BPA Balance Forward Print Program to print the bills.
You can also launch this program from an external system.
Prerequisites
Generating Style Sheet for BPA Templates
Required Parameters:
Print Option: Select Print draft balance forward bills or Print final balance forward bills.
Receivables assigns the Draft print status to draft balance forward bills and lets you accept or reject them. Receivables assigns the Final print status to final balance forward bills.
Billing Cycle: Specify the billing cycle for which you want to generate balance forward bills. If you submit the Generate Balance Forward Bill program from Receivables, then the Billing Cycle list of values displays all defined billing cycles. If you launch the program from an external system, then only the External billing cycle is available.
Print Output: Select Yes to obtain a viewable output of the bills. If you select No, then Receivables creates the bills, but you cannot view the bills from the concurrent request. To view the bills, you must query them in the Transactions workbench and select the BPA icon.
Currency Code: Receivables generates balance forward bills for customers matching the selected currency code.
Optional Parameters:
Operating Unit: To generate balance forward bills for a specific operating unit, select that operating unit from the list of values. Leave this field blank to generate balance forward bills for each eligible operating unit.
Billing Date (required for External billing cycles): Specify the billing date for the bill run.
The Generate Balance Forward Bill program includes on a bill only those transactions that share the same billing date or an earlier date.
Customer Name and Number Low/High: Select from the list of values to generate balance forward bills for a specific customer or a range of customers. The list of values contains only customers that have balance forward billing enabled.
Leave this field blank to generate balance forward bills for all eligible customers.
Bill-to-Site Low/High: If you have selected a customer from the Customer Name or Number list of values, and this customer is enabled for site-level billing, then you can select a specific bill-to site. Leave this field blank to print balance forward bills for all sites that are enabled to receive them.
Payment Term: The list of values includes all balance forward billing payment terms with the specified cycle. If you have specified a customer or bill-to site, then the list of values includes only the payment terms specific to the customer and bill-to site.
Leave this field blank to include all eligible transactions with balance forward billing payment terms which have the specified cycle.