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November 14, 2014 | 2,327 Views |
Abhishek Sharma
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Introduction – Biller Direct
SAP FSCM provides Biller Direct module: This is an

important capability in web-based invoicing and payments.
https://blogs.sap.com/2014/11/14/sap-biller-direct-invoice-management/ 3/3/2017
Through SAP Biller Direct, customers and suppliers can

access invoicing and payment information via business
portal of the company. SAP FSCM biller direct provides
seamless integration with accounting system and lets you
handle electronic payment and settlement processes with
customers or suppliers.
Standard mode encompasses all functions that customers

using SAP Biller Direct can execute in your Internet portal.
These include:
EBPP (Electronic Bill Presentment and

Payment):
Electronic: Electronic delivery and receipt using Internet.
Bill: Billing Information from SAP SD and FI modules.
Presentment: Presentation of Information on internet

(Open Bills, Bills for Approval, Paid Bills, Profile
Information)
Payment: Enables customer to pay online using Bank

Account or Credit Cards.
Biller Direct fulfills EBPP functions e.g. present open bills,

paid bills, dispute processing, online payment (credit
card/direct debit). It also seamlessly integrates with SAP
FI-AR.
Comparing with stand along EBPP software, the

advantage of SAP Biller Direct is the out-of-box
integration. e.g. once the Biller execute billing in backend
system(R/3 or none R/3 billing system), the customer

could find their bills online.
SAP Biller Direct provides following

services to the Customers:
1. Allows customers to review their Account status.
2. Allows customers to review Billing Information
(Invoices, Credits, Payments etc)

3. Allows customers to download the Invoices, Credits
copies for references.

4. Allows customers to make payment using Credit
Cards, Debit cards or Online Banking.

5. Allow customers to view there transaction
information online as soon as data reach to R3

system.
Standard sections available on Biller

Direct:
1. Invoices list for Approval
2. Open Bills (Invoices and Credits)
3. Paid Bills (In-process and Processed)
4. Payments (In-Process and Processed)
5. Profile
Background of SAP Biller Direct

Internet Application:
Presentation/Business Layer:
1. Biller Direct uses JAVA JSP for frontend
development and to connect with SAP R3 backend

system.
2. Biller Direct used MVC (Model View Controller)
Architecture.
3. Biller Direct used XML file for configuration which is
called XCM file settings.

4. JSP files are used as server side language.
5. JCO Connection is used to connect between SAP
R3 backend and JAVA frontend.

6. SAP RFCs are used to pull and submit information
from frontend.
Standard APIs used in Standard Biller

Direct Application:
1. APAR_EBPP_GET_DATA
2. FIN_AP_AR_GET_BANK
3. APAR_EBPP_KNB1_EXT_CHANGE
4. APAR_EBPP_KNB1_EXT_GET
5. APAR_EBPP_GET_BANKLIST
6. APAR_EBPP_APPROVE_DATA
7. APAR_GET_CUST_ITEMS
8. APAR_APPROVE_DATA
9. EBPP_BAPI_AR_ACC_GETOPENITEMS
10. APAR_EBPP_GET_INVOICE_DETAIL
11. APAR_EBPP_PUT_DATA
12. APAR_POST_ORDER
Bank Details maintain in SAP:
Collection Authorization must be checked to allow

payment from Biller Direct.
SAP Biller Direct Configurations:
Payment Method: Configured payment methods to be

used in Biller Direct.
Payment Methods available in Biller Direct:
Web user makes payment using either using there bank

collection (automatic or direct debit) or credit card, the
system requires payment methods to be able to enter this
information in the Invoices/Billing Item.
Payment Method can be defined as mode of Payment that

Web users has used to make Payment.
Setup Payment Method based on Company Code.
Edit Payment Method
Payment Methods are used to identify mode of Payment

ex: Online Payment, Check etc. There are two different
Payment Methods are configured in current system.
If required to change these Payment Methods based on

the Company codes, that can be done at following
Configuration.
Configuration made based on Company Code.
Payment Block Configuration
If you use Invoice Management to automatically issue and

create incoming and outgoing payments, there might be
cases where you would want to exclude a specific
business partner from the payment run.
For this purpose you assign a payment block that

indicates the reason for the exclusion.
Standard and Custom Payment Blocks defined in

FI-AR Biller Direct Configuration.
In FSCM-Biller Direct define Payment Block for

releasing of Payment.
Custom Payment Block defined in Biller Direct

(Payment will not be released if Payment Block is
applied)
Reference Users
Reference user is created in

SAP R/3 who is assigned to
the Web user, all
authorizations and roles are
assigned to this Reference
user in SAP R/3. All these
authorizations and Roles are
then used by the Web
Users.
These Reference Users are

created in ECC.
Reference Users can be
created using following
configuration in SPRO:
Company Codes
The company code is the central organizational unit of

external accounting within the SAP System.
You must define at least one company code before

implementing the Financial Accounting component.
The business transactions relevant for Financial

Accounting are entered, saved, and evaluated at company
code level.
Please give me your valuable feedback on my very first

post here on SCN.
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Ted Kwon
November 14, 2014 at 4:41 am
Abhisheck, So beautiful paper on FSCM-BD !

Whenever implementing Biller Direct module for several clients, I have
suffered from little organized papers or knowledge sets in this area.
Your doc is well organized and easy to follow.
Abhishek Sharma Post author
Thanks a lot Ted..
Harish Kollipara
Abhishek,
This doc really helps us a lot to know the overview of Biller Direct
module and its important configurations.
Keep up the good work.
November 14, 2014 at 1:41 pm
Thanks a lot Babai…
Cristina Fontabelli
Your material is very good.

Thanks for share with us.
Thanks Cristina..
Mukthar Ali Ahamed N
December 6, 2014 at 10:58 am
Nice document..Thanks for sharing
Eshwari Ujjini
January 25, 2015 at 7:18 am
Hi Abhishek,
The data shared has been of great help.
I am looking forward for some inputs related to the Customer details
modification that appears on the first screen.
We are trying to include the Customer Number as a part of the account
details list for each account assigned to the User. I am unable to find
the BAPI or java file needs to be modified for the same.
This change is required in the Standard mode of BD. We have
successfully done similar changes in the Customer care mode of BD.
Please suggest. I can provide more details if required.
Thanks & Regards,

Eshwari Ujjini
Hi Eshwari,
Thanks for stop by on my posting.
If I understand your requirement correctly, “you basically

want to have Customer Number on the very first screen of
Biller Direct application which displays the list of soldtos
assigned to the User”.
If this is true then one option can be to have an RFC call

which we have done in our application.
Fetch the records based on the User.
1. In ECC BADI/FM is there

FSCM_UAA_USAPPLREF_BADI
2. There is exit available exit->GET_USAPPLREF
3. You can have a Z implementation there.
4. Call CRM system passing User ID .
5. Based on the User get the contact person ID.
6. You can Use FM CRM_ISA_IUSER_GET_DETAIL to
get User Details example FNM, LNM etc.(BUT000
and BUT050 CRM )
7. Get the relations based on contact persons.
8. Get hierarchy customer and list of customers
assigned for the users.
9. Remember when you get these details you need to
filter out Hierarchy ID from list.
10. You need to filter out only Payers numbers to be
displayed on screen. (This may change based on
requirements)
As far as I know there are two places where we make a hit

to CRM system is this situation when we want to display
list of Soldtos based on user.
Another is the status of Invoices.
There is no direct standard API available for this as per
my knowledge.
This reply is based on my understanding on question.
Let me know if this helps.
Thanks-
Abhishek
Bhaskar Sala
April 14, 2015 at 4:52 am
Hi Abhishek,
The Biller direct information is very helpful.
I am looking forward for some inputs related to the Scheduled payments for
customers in Biller direct.
We are trying to include the scheduled payments for customers. Please suggest if
there is standard Bapi for this.
Thanks & Regards,
Bhaskar. S
udhaya Kumar Johendran
Hi Abhishek,
We get this message during maintenance of EBPP payment methods,
have you encountered this message? All payment method settings are
good.
“Payment method T must not be

used as a Biller Direct payment
method”
Thanks
January 29, 2016 at 5:13 pm
Hi Udhaya,
Sorry for late reply.. Have you checked default Payment
method for Biller direct. Try making it 0 (Online Payment).
Thanks-
Abhishek
kishan kakarla
February 16, 2016 at 10:21 pm
Hi Abhishek
Nice document. I have done several implementations for Disputes &
Collections management in FSCM area. I was always interested in
trying my hand at Biller direct but being a functional consultant, I never
stepped in as I always thought this would require a lot of technical skills
for working on the web interfaces. What do you think? Do you think
technical knowledge with JAVA and other programming is a
requirement to delve into Biller Direct?
February 20, 2016 at 9:08 pm
Hi Kishan,
Thanks for nice comments.. You can definitely stepinto
Biller Direct as far as you want to be a functional
consultant, but if you want to be a technical consultant
here you need to have some knowledge of JAVA or ABAP
what ever you choose..
But a tricky work which you will enjoy don’t tell your
technical team mate Just go through the standard
Function modules of Biller Direct ABAP, just learn how to
execute these Functional modules with parameters and
on JAVA side just understand the XCM settings and you
are done….
Once you learn these two things you will enjoy your
functional area.
If you want to be full technical in Biller Direct then you
have to learn ABAP or JAVA which ever you choose and it
will definately help you to understand the flow of standard
application.
Hope this helps.
Thanks-
Abhishek
Arun Thrivikram
March 15, 2016 at 10:39 am
Hello Abhishek,
appreciated your efforts. its a valuable document. and
now i need to know that we are going implementing this Biller Direct
with Fiori instead of Java technology. so is the above config is enough
to do or else is there anything more does from the functional side…
please tell me its mandatory to know myself
Thanks,
Arun
Ankish Chaudhari
March 16, 2016 at 6:28 am
Hello Abhishek,
This is a nice post. I have a very basic question. Client is using third
party system for billing which in turn gets uploaded as SAP FI invoice
through file upload. Collections are done in SAP. Now, they want to
provide access of billing information and their dues to the customers
online. Is there any limitation of Biller Direct for not having SD in SAP?
As per my understanding, BD uses accounting information. Please
confirm. Client is on ECC6 EHP6.
Thanks,
Ankish
Nikhil j
July 8, 2016 at 5:40 pm
Nice article Abhishek..
July 9, 2016 at 12:03 am
Thanks Nikhil….
Arun Mulgund
July 21, 2016 at 4:48 pm
Hi Abhishek,
I was just about going through some of the
contents on Biller Direct shared by you.
Really appreciate the knowledge shared.
However I was looking for something from
the Biller Direct buy side.
Would you be having something on that too?
Thanks once again.
Piyush Kothari
bajaj pankaj
September 9, 2016 at 8:34 am
Hi Abhishek
Very good document
But can you share the end to end cycle scenario ?
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SAP Biller Direct (Invoice

FIN Financial Supply Chain Management

Introduction – Biller Direct

SAP FSCM provides Biller Direct module: This is an

Through SAP Biller Direct, customers and suppliers can

Standard mode encompasses all functions that customers

EBPP (Electronic Bill Presentment and

Electronic: Electronic delivery and receipt using Internet.

Bill: Billing Information from SAP SD and FI modules.

Presentment: Presentation of Information on internet

Payment: Enables customer to pay online using Bank

Biller Direct fulfills EBPP functions e.g. present open bills,

Comparing with stand along EBPP software, the

system(R/3 or none R/3 billing system), the customer

SAP Biller Direct provides following

1. Allows customers to review their Account status.

2. Allows customers to review Billing Information

(Invoices, Credits, Payments etc)

copies for references.

Cards, Debit cards or Online Banking.

information online as soon as data reach to R3

Standard sections available on Biller

2. Open Bills (Invoices and Credits)

3. Paid Bills (In-process and Processed)

4. Payments (In-Process and Processed)

Background of SAP Biller Direct

1. Biller Direct uses JAVA JSP for frontend

development and to connect with SAP R3 backend

called XCM file settings.

5. JCO Connection is used to connect between SAP

R3 backend and JAVA frontend.

Standard APIs used in Standard Biller

Bank Details maintain in SAP:

Collection Authorization must be checked to allow

SAP Biller Direct Configurations:

Payment Method: Configured payment methods to be

Payment Methods available in Biller Direct:

Web user makes payment using either using there bank

Payment Method can be defined as mode of Payment that

Setup Payment Method based on Company Code.

Edit Payment Method

Payment Methods are used to identify mode of Payment

If required to change these Payment Methods based on

Configuration made based on Company Code.

Payment Block Configuration

If you use Invoice Management to automatically issue and

For this purpose you assign a payment block that

Standard and Custom Payment Blocks defined in

In FSCM-Biller Direct define Payment Block for

Custom Payment Block defined in Biller Direct

Reference user is created in

These Reference Users are

The company code is the central organizational unit of

You must define at least one company code before

The business transactions relevant for Financial

Please give me your valuable feedback on my very first

November 14, 2014 at 4:41 am

Abhisheck, So beautiful paper on FSCM-BD !

Abhishek Sharma Post author

November 14, 2014 at 6:02 am

Thanks a lot Ted..

November 14, 2014 at 7:03 am

Abhishek Sharma Post author