Create Selection Variants for Payment Medium Formats in SAP S/4HANA Cloud

This blog post describes the process of creating variants for the payment medium formats. Selection Variants is a compulsory step in customizing and it defines extended house banks criteria for payments during processing the Payment program. In case Selection Variants are not defined they are created automatically with default values.

Prerequisites

1. Define rules for mapping in the Map Payment Medium Format app – Create, Copy, Delete & Release in Map Payment Format Data
2. Create a Payment Medium Format – Create, Copy & Delete Payment Medium Format.
3. Link Payment Medium Format to Payment Method

Create/Assign Selection Variants

To create selection variants, you must be log on as a user BPC_expert with role SAP_BR_BPC_EXPERT.

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Open the Manage Your Solution app, and then Configure your Solution app. Search for the  102238 Create/Assign Selection Variants (Alternative) configuration step (SSC UI) and choose Configure.

Select the payment medium format name you want to create a selection variant and choose OK.

On the next screen, you can see details of Format Variants for each House Bank.

Field 1 (Selection Variant): you can enter a name of the selection variant in this field
Field 2 (Format Parameter): you can set parameters for the format
Field 3 (Dynamic Selection): you can maintain dynamic selection parameters such as House Bank, Currency and so on. The exact combination of fields depends on the name of the format as the screenshot below shows.

Examples of Parameter Specifications

xx represents a shortcut of specific country/region

xx_CGI_XML_CT or xx_CGI_XML_DD: Parameter specifications for Payment Medium for xx_CGI Credit Transfer and Direct Debit. If you select the Structured Remittance Info checkbox, after choosing ‘Continue’ the system shows you the branches (you can find more details about this function in SAP Note 2819590).

For some of the formats we deliver, a parameter check is built-in. When you save your entries and close the window, or when you choose Check, the automatic check runs and checks the parameters.

xx_MT101: Parameter specifications for payment medium format xx_MT101*

xx_MT103: Parameter specifications for payment medium format xx_MT103*

xx_MT104: Parameter specifications for payment medium format xx_MT104*

* For the xx_MT101, xx_MT103, or xx_MT104 formats, also fill either the SWIFT Code of Recipient Bank or Recipient in House Bank DME Data field, otherwise the file is invalid.

Remember that there are also country/region-specific payment medium formats that have their own fields, the goal of this blog post was to show you views of the most common examples of them.

SAP Note 2819590 – Structured remittance information is not being populated in the XML output of a SAP delivered CGI format

Find out more about Selection Variants in the App Documentation
Read more about payment medium formats and tools associated with them here.
Link to SAP S4HANA Cloud Customer Community (Finance).