Invoicing
Definition
In SAP Utilities, Invoicing is the process executed at the Contract Account level that consolidates one or more generated billing documents into a final, outward-facing Print Document. Invoicing transitions raw service charges and integrates them with overarching account logistics, such as taxes, open item clearing, interest calculation, and budget-billing settlements.
Business Purpose and Architecture
The business purpose of Invoicing is convergence and financial integration. It bridges the gap between raw consumption metrics and actual financial receivables. Architecturally, while Billing evaluates individual contracts, Invoicing groups those contracts together under a Contract Account to provide the customer with a single, coherent statement. Crucially, Invoicing is the exact technical threshold where data integrates into SAP FI-CA (Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable), permanently triggering financial postings and general ledger updates.
Referenced By
- Account Maintenance
- Adjustment Reversal
- Average Monthly Billing
- Billable Items
- Billing Line Items
- Budget Billing Plan
- Clearing Category
- Clearing Control
- Collective Bill
- Contract Account
- Convergent Billing
- Convergent Invoicing
- Credit Memo
- Due Date Determination
- Dunning
- FI-CA
- FQEVENTS
- Full Reversal
- Individual Bill
- Individual Processing
- Invoicing Reversal
- Invoicing Simulation
- Invoicing Unit
- Item Selection
- Joint Invoicing
- Manual Billing
- Mass Processing
- Mass Simulation
- Meter-to-Cash
- Outsorting Checks
- Outsorting
- Payment Method Determination
- Prepayment
- Print Action Record
- Print Document
- Reconciliation Key
- Result Functions
- Sales Statistics
- Simulation
- Statistical Budget Billing
- Unbilled Revenue Reporting