Diagnosis
You have selected a chain type in which partial invoices are posted asdown payment requests.
A down payment request is considered cleared, even when only partialpayment has been made. This means it is no longer possible to postanother down payment for this down payment request. Therefore thesystem creates a residual item for a down payment request for whichonly a partial amount has been put down as down payment.
In this down payment chain at least one partial invoice is cleared by apartial payment, which is posted as a down payment request.

Procedure
You can post the outstanding difference as a residual item immediatelyor on the next down payment request.

• If you require the difference amount immediately, select Post
Residual Item
The system creates a new down payment request for the residual item.The system enters the difference amount. The system copies all furtherdata, such as posting date and cash discount terms from the partiallypaid down payment request, for which the residual item was created.

• If you require the difference amount on the next down payment request,
do not select the above-mentioned function.
If you post a new down payment request later, although residual itemsstill exist, the system posts down payment requests to the residualitems available. The down payment request amount entered is the amountof the residual item. All further data is copied from the partiallypaid down payment request, for which the residual item is created.
If you post a final invoice as the next transaction, the system doesnot post residual items, although residual items are still available.The down payment requests and residual items which are still open arecleared in the final invoice.