Re: SD prepayment sales order type configuration

We did not create a dedicated order type for advance payment - in our case the process was relevant for certain customers and not a big number of documents per customer, so we used credit management functionality (zero credit limit to force blocking of quantity confirmation for standard orders). The main challenge, as I mentioned, was handling differences between prepaid amount and actually invoiced (we agreed to reuse the amount for subsequent orders). The other tricky part depends on country legislation - how to handle prepayment in first month and delivery+legal invoice in the next month. In some cases we used an additional order with service material and a special condition type to post vat and in the next month a credit memo to reverse that and then issue the final legal invoice. We still used special G/L indicator A for incoming payments to track also in FI reports. We had one additional development in DSD, but most probably this is not relevant for you .