Purpose
You use this program to create a file that contains payment instructionsand bank details for customers who wish to pay, for example, by directdebit. You send this prenotification file to the paying bank (in mostcases, you send it via a clearing house), and the bank then validatesthe file details and establishes the instructions.
This program is currently for use in Denmark, United Kingdom, and UnitedStates only.

Integration
The bank sends a return file
, which you can import using the the Process ReturnFile program. Once the payment instructions have been established,you can collect payment via direct debit, in conjunction with thepayment media generation program and thecorresponding payment medium format for the country.

Prerequisites
On the report selection screen, you need to specify which payment mediumformat is to be used with the program. SAP delivers formats for thesupported countries, as well as the function modules that fill theformats:
Country,,Delivered Format,,Send To Clearing House
Denmark,,PBS_PRENOTE,,PBS
United Kingdom,,AUDDIS,,BACS
United States,,ACH_PRENOTE,,ACH
If you need to assign different function modules to a format, you do soin Customizing for Financial Accounting, under ContractAccounts Receivable and Payable -> Program Enhancements ->Define Payment Medium Formats.

Features

Selection
On the program selection screen, enter the following information:

• When you want the file to be created, along with a run ID to identify
the created file later on

• Which payment medium format is to be used


• The date range for which the prenotification file is to be created


• Which business partners are to be included in the prenotification


• What the created file is to be called, and whether you want to output it
to the file system of the application server (instead of to the Temse inthe SAP System)

Output
The program creates a file according to the details you entered on theselection screen. If you click on the file, you branch to the DMEadministration. From there, you can view the file attributes and thefile itself.