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SAP S/4HANA Cloud for customer payments enables you to match payments with invoices, manage payment advices, create and manage payments, view your account statement, manage the master data of your account, and manage account assignments.
The product includes the following business benefits for you:
- Secure payments
- Simplified and secure processing of electronic payments with better control over the time of payment and management of the cash flow
- Fewer accounting and settlement errors with immediate access to invoice copies
- No need to wait for the accounts receivable department of your supplier to go into business hours
- Management of master data
The product includes the following business benefits for the accounts receivable team of your supplier:
- Improved billing processes
- Lower cost of billing by eliminating printing and postal charges
- Faster payment processing
- Efficient processing of payments and deductions
- More precise cash management and improved liquidity planning
- Native data integration
- Data integration with accounts receivable and cash management
Features

Invoice processing
You can avoid accounting and settlement errors and delays thanks to immediate access to invoice copies.
The following features are available:
- View, download, and fully or partially clear invoices with payments.
- Download attachments for invoices.
- View note to payee.
- Create, view, and void dispute cases on invoices and upload and download attachments for disputed invoices.
- Leave comments on invoices.
- Create and manage payment advices.
Secure payments
You can better control the time of payment and manage cash flow thanks to simplified and secure processing of electronic payments.
The following features are available:
- Make full or partials payments using credits, direct debits, credit cards, PayPal, or custom payment methods.
- Create and manage payments.
Account statement monitoring
You can view your monthly account balance with document details. If all the documents are of the same currency, you can also view the yearly account balance.
Master data management
You can manage the master data of your accounts, which includes address, contact, bank, and credit card information.