SAP FB70

It posts a customer invoice directly in FI accounts receivable (without SD billing), creating the customer receivable, typically for non-goods charges.

• Customer, invoice/posting date, amount.
• Revenue G/L account and cost/profitability assignment.
• Tax code and amount.
• Payment terms and text.

• For sales-based invoices, SD billing (VF01) is normal; FB70 is for direct FI charges.
• Ensure correct revenue account and tax.
• Check customer payment terms.

• Posting period not open.
• Wrong revenue account/tax code.
• Missing profitability segment (if CO-PA active).

• Using FB70 where SD billing belongs. There is no sales document, so nothing appears in sales reporting or in the order to cash document flow, and the revenue is invisible to everybody outside finance.
• Revenue posted without profitability characteristics. The amount is right and CO-PA cannot analyse it, which is discovered when somebody asks which customer segment it belonged to.
• Payment terms and dunning taken from a default. The customer master holds the agreed terms; a default overrides an agreement somebody negotiated.
• Assuming it prints. An FI invoice does not produce output the way a billing document does, so the customer may never receive what you posted.
• Correcting by posting a second invoice. A credit memo references the original; a second invoice leaves two open items and a confused customer.